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Reply #30 - February 04, 2013, 01:49 AM

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He said he hates Shias and that they're not muslim blah blah oblivious to the fact that one of the guys he was talking to was an Afghan Hazara Shia himself

Oh if I had a coin for all the times that happened to me. Funniest one was when a girl was saying "I'm going to warn her not to date him - he's shia, she might the wrong impression of Islam". Me: "I'm Shia" Her "oh no I didn't mean it like that, he's just not a good guy" awkwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard
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Reply #31 - February 05, 2013, 02:33 AM

I told my Eygptian Muslim(Sunni) friend about Ahmedis (Sunni) and she's never heard of them. So she went and asked her friend, and she came back and told me they told her they were satan worshippers...and I was like.. uh know aren't Ahmedi's the most passive sect of Islam.

It only wasn't until we had a 3 person conversation and I showed some knowledge about Ahmedi's her friend backed down on telling her how horrible they were, and we just discussed simply the different interpretation *rolls eyes*

I might be biased but I'd side with Ahmedis if another sect of Islam gives them shit, because Ahmedis are persecuted and they don't do anything. They practice the more sugar-coated version of Islam and seem more tolerant and humane in their version of Islam. Don't quote me on that though.

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Reply #32 - February 05, 2013, 11:38 AM

Is the other main group followers of the Aga Khan? Are they Sunni or Shia? How are they understood?

And what of Sufis?

would it help if there were football teams, like Rangers and Celtic, that the groups followed?

Jewish, and Atheist and homosexual football teams?

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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

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Reply #33 - February 05, 2013, 01:50 PM

If it wasn't for clever Sufi scholars from the past, Sufism would be hated a lot more. Now you got mainstream Muslims using Sufi literature and everyone is cool with that - except the Salafis of course BID'AH DAMMIT BID'AH!!!!!!! Oh, btw Shias really hate Sufis. LOL

Sorry Sabby!
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Reply #34 - February 05, 2013, 03:10 PM

Quote from: moi on February 05, 2013, 11:38 AM
Is the other main group followers of the Aga Khan? Are they Sunni or Shia? How are they understood?

And what of Sufis?

would it help if there were football teams, like Rangers and Celtic, that the groups followed?

Jewish, and Atheist and homosexual football teams?

And

Aga Khan followers or rather Ismalies as they're more commonly reffered to are a branch of Shia Islam who have some weird beliefs that I can't exactly remember. You find a lot of Ismalies in the Northern Pakistan area of Gilgit-Baltistan (a very beautiful part of Pakistan). I think most Sunnis see them as deviants/non-muslim. However like Ahmadis, they're quite educated, well off and peaceful.

Fun fact: Mohammad Jinnah - founder of Pakistan was from an Ismaili family though he later converted to Twelver Shia Islam.

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Reply #35 - February 05, 2013, 04:23 PM

Is there a summary anywhere of the different flavours of Islam, where they are found, how many adherents they have? I am getting the impression that one place I worked had a very wide selection and technically therefore should have been in a state of continuous war!

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

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