Is Hussein Shitte or Sunni??

Question

I thought Hussein was a shitte, but I just heard there was an assasination attempt by Shittes in the 80s

The reason I though hussein was shitte is my understanding that shitte is the more strict interpretation of muslim law?

Answer 1

Saddam Hussein is a Sunni. That is why the Shitte was oppressed for 24 years.

Answer 2

Hi, Ryandebraal-- Hussein, a Sunni
Read on about the Shiites:
(Bored yet with this exhaustive answer! ??)

http://www.openflock.org/shiite-muslim.html

The Shiite Muslims are one of the divisions that exist within the religion of Islam. There are fewer followers of this division than in the Sunni division. The basic difference between the two developed over a dispute about who should be the leader after the death of Mohammed in the 7 th century. The Shiites believed that the Prophet’s son-in-law Ali, should succeed him, but the larger Sunni group elected Abu Bakr, a close friend of Mohammed. The Shiite Muslims believe that Mohammed was the Prophet, but claim that the Qu’ran explicitly showed that Ali was to succeed Mohammed.
The term “Shiite” or “Shia” means partisans of Ali.

The Shiite Muslims differ from the Sunni in their interpretation of the Hadith.
The Shiite prefer to use the Hadith as narrated by Ali and Fatima and their associates.
They do not approve of honouring scholars who lived centuries ago, but believe that only living scholars should be followed.

In all other ways, the Shiite Muslims follow the basic beliefs of Islam.
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I think that Saddam is a secular Sunni & part of the Baath Party
(there might be an apostrophe in that word "Baath" -sorry !)
At the age of 10, Saddam lived with his uncle who was a devout Sunni.

Here you go;
3 links to provide the information you are seeking.

"Urbanized Sunnis are also secular, in large part because Saddam’s Baath Party emphasized a socialist, non-religious Iraqi state."
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9027/

"At the age of 10, Hussein moved to Baghdad to live with his uncle, Khayrallah Tulfah, a devout Sunni. In 1955, he attended the nationalist secondary school in Baghdad and joined the Ba'ath Party."
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/biography_saddam_hussein.htm

Assassination attempt & massacre in the 80's:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5325702

Answer 3

Shiite Islam accepts only traditions traced through Ali's family. The major Shiite collections are those of al-Kulini, al-Babuya al-Qummi, and al-Tusi.

Hadith currently exists in two main sets of collections, corresponding to the Sunni and Shiite division within Islam.
Sunni Islam recognizes as authoritative the collections of Bukhari and Muslim followed in importance by those of Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, an-Nasai, and Ibn Maja.
Shiite Islam accepts only traditions traced through Ali's family. The major Shiite collections are those of al-Kulini, al-Babuya al-Qummi, and al-Tusi.

See W. A. Graham, Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam (1977); G. H. A. Juynboll, Muslim Tradition (1981).

Answer 4

Sunni Muslim, very secular, I'm guessing--but I have no Islam analysis skills ...
just, you know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills...

Answer 5

sunni