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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]
Not true. I have been Muslim all of my life, I am a sunni and 90% of the Muslims i know are Sunnis and we don't go around wishing death to the Shi'a. Yes there are Sunni/Shia conflicts around the world but those are in very specific areas and very politicized , religion is really secondary in those conflicts even though people use religion's name most of the time to justify their actions.[/quote]
I am sure you don't, and this is not about individual attitudes of Sunnis to Shias.  Yes, it is political, but the whole Sunni/Shia split was political and has since been enshrined in the mainstream Sunni ideology, which serves to cement the dominant position of Sunnis over the Muslim "community", whatever that means (and it honestly means nothing in the absence of external enemy).  Saudi textbooks, which AlSaud's money has spread around the world as the chapter-and-verse of true Islam refers to Shia blood and property as halal to kill and take over. Of course the conflict in Iraq is about political power but that feeling of entitlement to domination both politically and economically is very much a part of mainstream Sunni discourse bolstered by the ideology.  If you don't know this, you simply haven't read it, which is OK, but don't say it doesn't exist.[/quote]
Lol. You really think you know what sunnis believe more than I do because of what you think you learn or read or saw? I live this religion, I don't just watch it in the news or listen to debates about it. I will say it again, Sunnis don't wake up thinking "jeez , what are we going to do about shias today" the same way catholics don't wake up thinking about protestants .There is 1.6 Billion of Muslims in the world,  the majority being sunni, and they are not exporting their vision of Islam anywhere, nor are they fighting around the world about who is who or believe in what.  Saudi arabia has a branch of wahadism that teaches what you re referring to. But let me tell you that this is no way the majority Sunni beliefs or teachings. You don't hear 90% of the sunnis ever in the media, that should tell you something. The other conflicts that you're talking about are the minority who again because of political strategies, agendas export their own version of islam. But don't tell me that's what the Sunnis believe because that is definitely not true[/quote]
Well, let's address your first question. Does being Muslim imparts on you, by osmosis, more knowledge about what Sunnis believe? No, not really, because the sources of information available to you are equally available to Arabic-fluent non-Muslims, and these sources are out available to see to all and sundry. There are no special Muslims-only sources.

Of course, 90% of Sunnis aren't in the media - 99% of ANY community is never in the media, in armed conflicts or in politics, and 90% of any community spends zero time thinking about this.  That doesn't mean that this community has no ideology, no policy, no philosophy, and 90% of it members may have never heard of these things, but it doesn't mean they don't exist. Of course 90% of any community members don't wake up thinking about these things but let me ask you something: walk into any Sunni mosque and ask the imam what his position is on the Shia community.  And report back, please, if anyone says, without qualification, "they are our brothers and sisters in the faith and we have to stand with them."  Just curious.

Again, this is not about what people "on the ground" believe.  This is about what the ideology of one group says about members of another group. [/quote]

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