Difference between Shites, Sunnis, and Kurds?
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Kurd is an ethnicity and not a religion, they are Muslims. they come from northern Iraq between Turkey and Iraq.\n\nShiites and Sunnis are Muslims too they ALL worship Allah and adhere to the same Quran which is ONE Quran.\n\nthe difference between Sunnis and Shiites is a political difference stems from after the death of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).\n\nShiites believe that the successor of the Prophet should be a descendant of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) while Sunnis believe that it should be based on Votes.\n\nthe difference in religion is on the Hadith, they don't use the Hadiths that were narrated by the Prophet's companions, ONLY the ones narrated by Ali the Prophet's cousin (may Allah be pleased with him).
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You can read about both of them on Encarta. Don't just take my word, they are different, learn why they are different there.
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First of all, Kurds are not being killed because they are Kurd. There is this thing call the PKK- which is considered a Terrorist group and is bombing Turkish Cities. The Turkish Army is going after the PKK camps in South Eastern Turkey in efforts to stop the bombings.\n\nhow would you like it if I bombed your cities?
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Mav sweetie take it from a man who knows what he's talking about.\n\nregardless of the (minor) religious difference Sunnis and Shiites lived together in peace for centuries.\nit wasn't until the invasion of Iraq when hell broke loose. at first, the Iraqis rejoiced when the US military over thrown the Ba'th regime of Saddam Hussein.\n\nnow we have the Iraqi people (Sunnis and Shiites) and Al Qaida (foreign fighters from all over the Mideast and mostly Sunnis) in Iraq right.\nAl Qaida in Iraq are committed to fight the Americans in Iraq to the bitter end until we either get out or get killed. that's how they think.\n\nafter the first few months the majority of the Iraqis who "rejoiced" when Saddam was caught, started to get tired of the US occupation and the militias started to grow. \nin the beginning there was no fighting between Shiites and Sunnis at all. all the fighting was basically against the US and UK. Sunni  Iraqis who wanted to get involved in this joined Al Qaida (foreign Arabs) and Shiites Iraqis joined Al Mahdi Army in Baghdad's Sadr city.\nnow this Mahdi militia was showing our troops hell until the US Army had to make a truce with their leader Muqtada Al Sadr and promised him that the new regime will be controlled by Shiites instead Sunnis who ruled Iraq for many many years under Saddam's regime.\n\nSunnis see this as treason and therefore justify killing the "traitors". they started bombing Shiite neighborhoods, mosques, and markets.\nbottom line is our military is some what responsible for all the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites. \n\nin my opinion both Shiites and Sunnis who do kill innocent people for no reason other than being Sunni or Shiites (civilians) are vicious animals and don't deserve to breath. \nunfortunately the civil war has erupted and there's nothing we can do to stop it. \nmark my words. this current regime will not last for too long.\n\nit's a sad sad situation Mav :o(
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I am a sunni, and i don't hate anyone. I'm sure u are asking this considering the situation in Iraq. Yup, we are all brothers but the one really following Islam are the sunnis. Shittes are tottaly wrong. the others, i don't have any idea. I think the powerfull and honourable people of all those sections/parties(whatever u call them) are the one responsible for this situation. I believe  although some of the groups u named above are not following Islam throughly, we should still respect them and should not fight. Thats all.
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If your question must be answered in the context of accepting your "facts"  then the answer must be equally erroneous. \nThe simple answer is that illegal immigrants in the USA are not a military force and so yes, there is a difference, and the comparison is nonsensical.\nBut, more to your point, and to correct your "facts"...\nThe freely elected representative government of the citizens of Iraq DO want coalition forces in their country until such time as they can effectively defend and police their lands. The non-Iraqi terrorist insurgents, in collaboration with a minor faction of disgruntled unelected Iraqis of the former totalitarian regime, however loud they yell, are not representative of the citizens.
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shias are muslims and so are sunnis too muslims.\nThey both believe in Allahbut are divided due the opinions expressed by the interpreters of quaraan.\nDuring the period of MUHMAD there were nothing like shias and sunnis.It is like divide and rule policy in every religion.
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They have a big relationship with themselves.They are conservative and believing people.They dont like armenians and kurds anymore.But they live with these minorities with peace.They have a famous kitchen and an important Army.
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Most of them are 'Twelvers.' They are the dominant Shiite faction in Iran and Iraq. The others factions exist but are not a force to reckon with.\nThey are known as 'Twelvers' as they believe in the return of the twelvth imam, or Imam Mahdi as he is known. They believe he entered a well and is still alive in a state of occultation. He will return during the end times and rule the world in its final days just before the day of judgement.
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any similarities between the shia guys who kills the sunni's, the sunni's who murders the shia's, the suicide bombers, the 911 crashers, the al queida gang and the good Muslims ...  NO ? ok, then that answers your question too..
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Turkey has a large Kurdish population as well in the neighboring territory. Their largest fear is that Iraq fractures and the Kurds declare themselves an independent state and then try to lay claim to the currently Turkish lands dominated by the Kurds.
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Okay, so you know, the two largest branches of Islam are spelled (in English) Sunni and Shi'a (of which the adherents are known as Shiites).\n\nIran is a majority-Shiite country.
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Baha-I is a muslim sect, like Sunni, and Shi-ite.\n\nThe main difference is their treatment of Women, which are revered, as opposed to represed.
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Shiah and Shiites are the same thing.  And yes, maybe it's spin; Shiites looks a lot like sh*t.  \n\nLike when Bush the First changed the pronunciation of Sadam Hussein to "Sodom".
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I have regular contact with a few soldiers over there now and from what they have told me,yes and are still thankful for much of the help.The Kurds have moved to another part of Iraq away from Bagdad and Fallujah and are living in peace..they dont kill each other off like the Shites and the Sunnis.
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There is no problem between them, only some Sunni that kill shia, they believes shia aren't Muslim
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It wasn't religion (or 'just religion'), it was a tribal differences.  Many parts of the world rely on tribes and clans as their basis for organizations.  The modern Western World has nothing really close to this, though ethnic "enclaves" in cities may suffice.\n\nSaddam's clan and their allies have been fighting the Kurds and Shia for a long time.  The Kurds, like the Shia, were a threat to his powerbase.  Very few scholars in the Western World understand these tribal... hatreds or animosities are the best words. \n\nThis tribal/clan allegiance also leads to fractionalization.  Clan chiefs (Skieks in Arab cultures), are sometimes bought off, threatened, or simply removed if the other clan has enough power or by internal conflict.  This is how the US was so successful in Afghanistan.  We caused a rift in the clans supporting the Taliban and Al Qaeda by paying off Shieks.  It works A LOT better than fighting them and their clan of 5000!\n\nSaddam bought off some opponents, especially Sunni clans.  He threatened others (i.e., the Shia clans), and simply exterminated the Kurds without much warning to the world, or the Kurds.\n\nThat's a short answer.  There are several books on the tribalism of the world (Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations” or even "Bush at War" goes into how clans can be divided without firing a shot)\n\nThough when it came to playing the Arab Media, Saddam would pretend to be very religious.  However, true to his NAZI sympathizer uncle (al Tikrit), he was an anti-religious national socialist.