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WARM UP
WHAT DO YOU THINK CAUSES MOST FIGHTS???
WHAT IS A SCHISM???
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Definition: A separation or division into
separate parts in a religion.
Warm up
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With the people around you talk quietly and write
in your notebooks 2 religions you know that have
conflicts with other religions or religions that have
had a schism.
Sunni
The Sunni believe that any
truly religious Muslim can
become a caliph.
The Sunni have scholars and
religious people who discuss the
leadership of Islam.
The Sunni where actually the people who opposed to Shiites, they weren't a
branch at first.
Shiite
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The Shiites or Shias
believe that the first
Caliph should have been
Ali and that the caliphate
should have gone down
to his descendants.
The Shiites pray
differently that the sunni
and believe on one
religious figure (similar to
the Pope)
SHIITES
Cause of the Schism
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When Muhammad died , there was a conflict about
how would be his successor.
The Shias believe that Ali should have been the
caliph, but tree others were chosen before him.
Ali was the fourth caliph but his descendants never
got the chance and instead the Umayyad dynasty
was settled.
Cause of Schism
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The people that didn't agree with only Ali´s
descendants being Caliph were then called Sunni´s
and their long conflict begun.
NOW A DAY CONFLICTS
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The Sunni and the Shiite have a constant fight that has been
on for more than 1500 years. This fight was suppose to be
about religion, but it has turn into a political fight for power.
This fights have increase in this last century.
In Gaza strip the terrorist group of Hamas that is form by
the Shiites, receive money from Iran, and is less violent, but
hates Jewish people.
The political group, but terrorist too named Fatah, is form by
Sunni. Is an ally with the country of Syria and also hates
Jewish.
These two groups hate each other, but the Fatah is the more
violent of the two groups.
NOW A DAY CONFLICTS
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In Iraq the constant fights between Sunni and Shi’a or Shiite
are beginning to be a serious problem because the cause of
death by this fights preoccupy some people.
The Shiites have the largest amount of petroleum, and we
don’t know what they will do with all that money they can
have.
Lebanon has another terrorist group form by Shiites in its
south called Hezbolla, and Iran is taking care of giving them
money. People say that the first two groups have given big
amounts of dead people, but this third group will give a
huge conflict that can harm millions of people.
conclusion
WHYLT???
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