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Originally Posted by crowonapost
I pretty much know that Muslims NEVER thought of Mohammad as God or Allah. He was & is to either main sects the FINAL Prophet. They are quite strict on any relation or idolization towards Allah in ANY shape & form. It is one of the main reasons they have problems with Christianity because Christians deify Christ as God.
As to the Shiite Sunni split it has to do with whom was the successor. In essence the one Mohammad considered the best caliph not related was Ali. The Sunni wanted the succession to be based on who was the best or "rightly guided caliphs" a theo/political process whereases the Shias agreed Ali was a "rightly guided caliph" but after him it should only be the descendants of Mohammad.
Death ensued, in Iraq. Hence the yearly self lashings Shiites do in honor & respect for the slaughter of Hussein the original split followers of the Shiite path.
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My reference is probably more in line with the explanation that scholar Karen Armstrong gives or even Erich Kahler but essentially it is who is the true carrier of the message and what is now the contemporary message. And so it is with the split with Sunni and Shiite...I am using the term God in a very general way here...it is the message really and who they beleive to be the source. I use the word in the sense that a cleric who is extremist and evil can be put (or put himself) in that position of a false prophet or God. I see now difference with the main, blind cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman involved in shaping the first WTC bombing in 1993 and someone like Pat Robertson who enflames some of the most religiously bigoted rhetoric and causes anyone has seen.