Discuss the split of Islam into Sunni and Shiite. What impacts ...

[Bob-Dole]

Discuss the split of Islam into Sunni and Shiite. What impacts has this split caused?
 
  What will be an ideal response

Question 2

The ____________ fought terrorist groups affiliated with al-Qaeda because their presence and activities threatened an unofficial cease-fire between Hamas and Israel.
 
  Fill in the blanks with correct word

[sabina576]

Answer to Question 1

The Shi'a stem from a group of followers of Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad who believed that Ali was divinely chosen to be the leader of the Islamic community after Muhammad's death in 632 A.D. They argue that the leader of Islam must provide political, governmental, and spiritual leadership to Islam as well as be directly descended from the Prophet. On the other hand, the Sunni or True Path of Allah tradition believes that
the leadership of Islam should be elected, and segregated from temporal and political life.
Government should be secular, meaning that religion and government are separate. Sunnis
represent about 85 to 90 percent of the Muslim population in the world; the Shi'a represent
the minority and are primarily located in Iran, southeastern Iraq, and Lebanon.

Because Islam is a way of life, and in part due to the change in the term Jihad, this split has been a major source in the development of terrorist groups that have the ethnocentric ideology that those not like them in their beliefs need to be converted or abolished. The means to doing so, through terrorist acts, is all in the name of God, and therefore not immoral.

Answer to Question 2

Hamas

[Bob-Dole]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[Joy Chen]

Great answer, keep it coming