In Christianity, Catholics are suspicious or sometimes nasty towards protestants and vice versa etc In Islam, it seems different individulas/groups feel they have different answers to the same questions on here, and all representng Islam.
2007-01-07 04:44:56 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Islam is not divided, the Shi'a creed is not Islam.
http://www.islamawareness.net/Deviant/Shia/
2007-01-07 04:48:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 10⤋
Having studied Islam in serious depth, inside and out from just about every angle you humanly can (conservative, liberal, Sunni, Shia, etc.) the answer can be: YES. You have many imams and people with opinions about various issues within Islam that can vary as much as the number of people who have ideas (yep it can get that complicated). I refused to take shahada for that very reason and the straw that broke the "camel's back" was having various leaders within ONE community bickering amongst themselves over how much hijab I should wear, considering I liked the niqab, abaya, and so forth, and then trying to play me off against one over another's opinion and vice versa. It was not much later when I came to the ephiphany that PEOPLE within religion are what make things rough or "bad" depending on which religion.
2007-01-07 13:04:43 · answer #2 · answered by vinslave 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is. There are the Sunnis - the original followers of Muhammad. There are the Shi'ites - the followers of Ali, one of Muhammad's associates who broke with mainstream Islam after Muhammad's death. There are the Wahabis, a modern day Islamic sect founded by the Saudi Arabian royal family in the 1920's, There are also Alawites, Druizes, Sufis ect.
And, just like Catholics, Orthodox, Mormon and the various Protestant sects in Christianity, or Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Chassidim among the Jews, or the various schools of thought in Buddhism, they all hate each other over minor doctrinal splits that happened hundreds of years ago.
2007-01-07 13:02:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
All religions are divided,and always will be.
People are divided,we may accept the "basics" of a religion-but that is as far as it goes.
We all interpret different things and thoughts from reading the same article,in the same way that we can all witness a crime-but Will give different witness statements to the police.
This is what makes people different from each other,we will always disagree with each other,and have our own values and ideas.
However this thought process does not give us the "right" to condemn those that do not agree with our own ideals.
I personally do not accept OR believe in any religion.
2007-01-07 12:58:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say that Islam is much, much, much, much more divided than Christianity.
The Shia's and Sunnis are so divided that if they didn't have countries separating them they would kill themselves. Look at Iraq. Can you see how a civil war is about to errupt between these groups.
Muslims have no leadership. Everyone and anyone can claim to be an expert on Islam. There are also many more sects and subgroups in Islam. It is a hopeless religion of confusion.
2007-01-07 12:55:01 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. D 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
this question not only valid for Christianity and Islam but also valid for rest of religions.
division is all major religions is due to interests of theocracy. this is just a fight between theocrates, to get lions-share.
so they divide the religion into number of sects, and telling to ordinary people that they are on right path and rest of world is fuel for hell.
the real motive behind them is to get lion-share. The more people follow them the more they will be benifited.
2007-01-07 14:59:23 · answer #6 · answered by Shak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
errhh.. do you watch the news?
the only time you will ever heard about fighting between catholics and protestants in Northern Ireland.
There is a difference between national and international.
the terrorists groups in N.I are probably not even known about in most catholic countries. Muslims love to state this conflict as they think this justifies them killing millions of their own Muslims without getting a bad name for it.
2007-01-07 17:17:22 · answer #7 · answered by Abdul 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Jews are split up into 71 sects, the Christians into 71 and Islaam is split up into 73 sects. And only one of them is the right sect. The rest are misleaded...... deviant.....
Islaam came first, then Christianity and Judaism. They are linked together with some similarities.
2007-01-07 15:59:46 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Stick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though there is no division in the Message there are divisions in every religion. The Koran says not to make the divisions yet it happened. There are over 22000 christian sects (one Jesus, one Message) and many divisions in jewry. What does that tell you?
2Th 2:11 - Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false,
2007-01-07 12:59:43 · answer #9 · answered by regmor12 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well judge for yourself. Watch the news and see how the Muslim Shia and Sunnis are killing each others in Iraq for one every single day. An Imam in Saudi declared that Shias are infidels, he said they are not true Muslims!
Hands down. Muslims are divided and worse than anyone else.
I agree with AarCee, Muslims are united with each others when they're fighting others, and when they are not fighting others, they are fighting each others.
2007-01-07 13:15:38 · answer #10 · answered by Today T 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes...not just Islam but all the religions in this world have divisions.
2007-01-07 13:17:35 · answer #11 · answered by artw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋