Quote:In the latest attack, a suicide bomb exploded on a bus in a Shit section of Baghdad on Saturday afternoon.

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Across the capital, three mortar rounds landed on a procession of Shit worshippers marching toward a mosque in northern Baghdad, wounding 17 civilians and two Iraqi soldiers, Iraqi police said.
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On Friday, several explosions ripped through Iraq, leaving at least 27 people dead and five dozen wounded as Shit Muslims began observing Ashura, authorities said.

Shit mosques were the targets of three suicide bombings and a rocket strike, officials said, while another bomber targeted Iraqi security forces at a checkpoint.

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Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said the attacks were intended "to try to draw a rift, to dig a wedge between the Shit and Sunnis in this country."

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In the Iraqi capital's western sector, at least two suicide bombers attacked a Shit mosque, wounding eight people, U.S. military officials said.

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Fearing this kind of violence, authorities closed Iraq's borders during the Shit holy days.

Quote:The focus of this article is to compare Shit with Sunni Islam.

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The Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, in his introduction to Allamah Tabatabai's Shit Islam, states, "the issues which .. arise [in a comparison of Shitism and Sunni Islam]

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The early history of Shitism is still very obscure. Most of the expositions that have come down to us are the work of theologians, both Sunni and Shit

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The Shit scholar, Allamah Tabatabai, as stated previously, sees the roots of Shitism in Muhammad's acceptance of Ali as his successor.

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Shits, in contrast to Sunnis, accept the hadiths of Muhammad and the Imams, as being of equal importance and validity

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Here is where the differences between the Shit and Sunni Hadith present a glaring problem.

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Aside from differing inheritance laws, the Shit law or Sharia is largely similar to that of Sunni Islam.47 Yet for the Shits, a body of Hadith distinct from that of the Sunnis is the basis for religious ritual in which the Sunnis do not partake

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Some of the other distinctly Shit beliefs and practices include taqiyah and mutah.52

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Though this article has dealt primarily with the beliefs and practice of twelver Shits, there are also numerous other sects within Shitism such as the Zaydi, Isma`ili, Nizari, Musta`lis, Druze, and Muqanna`ah.

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