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Compare And Contrast Sunni And Shia
Sunni and Shia are two different groups of people. In the cartoon to the right it shows how Sunni and Shia can't get along. Although sometimes they did get along most of the time they where fighting. They would fight because they both believed in different things. For example they couldn't agree weather or not to do something one way or a different way. This disagreement started when Muhammad died. They disagreed because one group(Sunni) of people believed that the leader should be elected and the other group (Shia) of people thought it should stay in the family. The group that thought the leader ship should stay in the family was Shia and the group of people that thought the leader should be elected was Sunni. They disagree on the big things
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