You say Shia, I say Shiite...?

Question

Watching the news on Iraq and yet again wondering if "Shia" (sp?) and "Shiite" refer to the same religious sect (just variations of a name) or are they different sects or are we talking apples and oranges, or what?

And, please, this is just a very straightforward question with no political/religious motivation at all. Not trying to stir anything up. Thanks.

Thanks for all the responses (with the exception of one). There were several different answers, though, and since I'm not sure which is correct, I am not going to choose a Best Answer. Sorry. But I appreciate the straightforward answers (again, with the exception of one). Thanks!

Answer 1

actually shia is used so as not to make the freudian slip of pronouncing the curse word for human excrement

Answer 2

Ok it's a straight answer for your question
I'm persian and shitte muslim as well
shia , shie , Shiite is all same whitch believe after muhammad 12 of his ancestors ruled over islam
but sonie , sounny , ajam or rest of muslims are believe just 4 of his friends got the title of "khalifeh"
Shiite country's are Iran , Parts of Syria parts of Iraq
other muslim's in world are sounny
well i hope i can answer your question

Answer 3

I wondered the same thing. I took a religion class and the book uses both. I think both are correct maybe shia is singular and shiite is plural.

Answer 4

the priority is that the violence is intrinsically woven into Islam and is going authentic back to a dispute over who had religious authority over the Muslim community after the death of the prophet Muhammad in what's named the “fitna” which interprets as temptation or trial and brought about all the discord interior Muslim community. Shi’ite Muslims have faith that authority replaced into vested in his kinfolk; the Sunnis seem to the sayings and movements of Muhammad as properly simply by fact the Koran. the severe sectarian violence has been delivered approximately with the aid of Al-Qaeda Which at the same time as being completely Sunni intentionally set Shi’ites and Sunnis to kill one yet another in Iraq. regrettably extra Muslims die with the aid of Muslim palms each month than have been killed with the aid of the invading forces interior the war! Hamas additionally kills lots extra Muslims than the Israelis ever have! an familiar of over thirty 5 Muslims a week have been being killed with the aid of Muslims yet interior the previous couple of years it has usually been over one hundred a week! whether this is a Danish caricature, e book of fiction , a snippet of action picture or another reason, Muslims hit the streets all over the area rioting, looting, burning and uttering death threats! almost all the Muslim international locations are seeing Muslims attack Muslims destroying residences, companies, infrastructure and concentrated on women human beings and teenagers relatively displaying the extremists would desire to certainly be attempting to instruct Muslims into primitives residing in caves and dirt huts so as that they'd be controlled extra actual!

Answer 5

Yes, they are referring to the same group. In arabic "Shia" is probably a more accurate spelling of the term. Just like Syria in arabic is pronounced "Soo-ree-uh."

Just linguistics and Westernization of foreign words.

Answer 6

Shiite is anglicized version of Shia, just as Israelite is used for Israeli.

Answer 7

Yup,it's Shia in arabic and shiite in english and other non-arabic languages..
it's shi'e in persian.

Answer 8

Not quite apples and oranges but nouns and adjectives.

Shia - noun
Shiite - adjective

Answer 9

I think better call Them "Fuckia" lol

Answer 10

whats the difference, they both terrorist