nasserelamine:

The conflict between Shias and Sunnis is political and making it apolitical is negating it in its entirety. Saying that the conflict is with regards to spiritual beliefs is reducing the historical nature of this conflict into nothing but quarrel among scholars and philosophers, which in and of itself is not at all bad or negative. But it is not a matter of theology or abstract spirituality that developed the conflict. It was politics, and the only way this conflict will be resolved and the sects could be reduced to just Muslims is if we are brutally honest about the past, about our history. People by the thousands have been killed, genocides have taken place, the concept of takfir was a death sentence.. If you think this isn’t political you need to come back down to earth. If you think that conflicts like this arise from differences like whether ‘God emanates or creates’ or whether the imams were infallible or not, or whether praying with your hands crossed is bidaah or not, you are delusional.