Sunni/Shia 1400-Year-Old War

The Sunnis, who are the majority of the Muslims in the world, believed that they should voluntarily choose Mohammed’s successor. They chose Abu Bakr, the father of Aisha, the ninth wife of Mohammed. Aisha was six years old when she was forced to marry the 50 year old Mohammed.

The Shias on the other hand believed the leadership of the Islamic movement should be hereditary. Mohammed’s closest living male relative was his cousin Ali. Ali became the leader or Caliph of the Shias. Within a decade after Mohammed’s death bloody civil war erupted between Sunnis and Shias. While the war has simmered in certain periods of history it has just as often raged.

We are now living in a period of history where this civil war is raging with unrelenting cruelty and ferocity. Sunni and Shia are killing each other with gleeful abandon in Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Pakistan and especially Iraq. Islam is a bloody curse not just on Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians, but also on Muslims. The West Point Center on Terrorism states that more Muslims since 9/11 have died at the hands of other Muslims than any other faith group. Sunnis consider Shias as apostates. All Sunni Hadith law demands death for the apostate. (See Reliance of the Traveller, Chapter O, section 8).

Now enter ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). This is a group that is so violent that in February it was disavowed formally by al-Qaida (the folks who killed 3,000 Americans in the 9/11 attacks). That gives you a real indication of the total barbarity of ISIS. The Internet is awash with pictures and videos of these monsters playing soccer with severed human heads, shooting and beheading thousands of Shias and torturing innocent women. You would be hard pressed to find a greater collection of psychopaths on the planet. Where did ISIS finds its role model to authorize these cruel excesses?

Mohammed is considered the role model for all Muslim men both Shia and Sunni. Any act Mohammed permitted in his life is considered permissible (halal) in the life of his followers. Mohammed was a warlord, a murderer, a thief, a slaver and believed in forced child marriages. Islam is the only religion of mankind that does not have some form of the Golden Rule. Islam is about revenge and conquest. It is a supremacist, fascist ideology masquerading as a religion.

Does this adequately explain the 1,400-year-long civil war of Islam between Sunni and Shia?

Does this explain the heartless fiendishness of ISIS? Unlike Vegas, what starts in Iraq won’t stay in Iraq. It will come here!