some info on Muhammad-Islam
-Islam-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Islam
-Muhammad-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith
Believed by Muslims and Bahá'ís to be a messenger and prophet of God,
Muhammad is almost universally considered by Muslims as the last prophet sent by God to mankind.
-Quran-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran
the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God
Muslims believe the Quran was verbally revealed by God to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel..
gradually over a period of approximately 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 CE,[5]
when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632 CE, the year of his death
The earliest documented Christian knowledge of Muhammad stems from Byzantine sources.
They indicate that both Jews and Christians saw Muhammad as a "false prophet" and he is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Muhammad
-Sharia law-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia
Sharia Law is a significant source of legislation in various Muslim countries,
namely Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, Brunei, United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
There are two primary sources of sharia law: the precepts set forth in the Quranic verses (ayat),
and the example set by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Sunnah
-(Sunni) and (Shia) Islam are the two major denominations of Islam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches
Both Sunni and Shia Muslims share the most fundamental Islamic beliefs and articles of faith.
The differences between these two main sub-groups within Islam initially stemmed not
from spiritual differences, but political ones.
The division between Shia and Sunni dates back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad,
and the question of who was to take over the leadership of the Muslim nation.
Sunni Muslims agree with the position taken by many of the Prophet's companions,
that the new leader should be elected from among those capable of the job.
This is what was done, and the Prophet Muhammad's close friend and advisor,
Abu Bakr, became the first Caliph of the Islamic nation.
The word "Sunni" in Arabic comes from a word meaning "
one who follows the traditions of the Prophet."
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni_Islam
Sunni Islam (/'su?ni/ or /'s?ni/) is the largest branch of Islam
adherents are known as Sunni Muslims, Sunnis, and Sunnites.
Sunni Islam is the world's second largest religious body (after Christianity)[2]
and the largest religious denomination for any religion in the world. Sunni Islam
is sometimes referred to as the orthodox version of the religion
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_Islam
The Shia (/'?i??/; Arabic: ???? Shi?ah), or the Shiites (/'?i?a?ts/),
represent the second largest denomination of Islam.
Adherents of Shia Islam are called Shias or the Shi'a as a collective or Shi'i individually.
[1] Shi'a is the short form of the historic phrase Shi?atu ?Ali (???? ???)
meaning "followers", "faction" or "party" of
Muhammad's son-in-law and (cousin Ali), whom the Shia believe to be Muhammad's
successor in (the Caliphate)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate
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Twelver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelver_Shia
The term Twelver refers to its adherents' belief in twelve divinely ordained leaders,
known as the Twelve Imams, and
their belief that the Mahdi will be the returned Twelfth Imam who disappeared and
is believed by Twelvers to be in occultation.
-King Abdullah’s Death Fulfills ‘End-Time Prophecies,’ Say Shiites
https://www.thetrumpet.com/…/king-abdullahs-death-fulfills-…
-Most Twelvers are in Iran. The cia World Factbook says 90 to 95 percent of Iran’s
81 million people identify as Shiite, and around 85 percent of those adhere to Twelver Shiism.
https://www.cia.gov/…/publi…/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the patriarch of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, was a Twelver,
as is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the current supreme leader in Iran.
-In 2012, Khamenei told the people of Iran: “We must prepare for the coming.
Since we consider ourselves the warriors of the 12th imam, we must fight.
Under the leadership of God, and with his invisible Power,
we will restore the glory of Islamic Civilization.”
As Joel Rosenberg, former aide to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said,
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n order to bring about this Islamic messiah, the Mahdi, the 12th imam, Islamic leaders
need to hasten his coming by destroying little Satan, Israel, and the great Satan, the United States. …
Today it pits Iran and Shiites of Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia against
the Sunnis of the Middle East. The disgust of Iranian leaders with the Little Satan (Israel)
is only exceeded by their disgust for the Great Satan (America).
-current Shia–Sunni relations
Difference Between Kurds and Shiites
http://www.differencebetween.net/…/differences-between-kur…/
-In Britain, the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal makes use of sharia family law to
settle disputes, and this limited adoption of sharia is controversial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Arbitration_Tribunal
-http://islam.uga.edu/countries.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/w…/List_of_Muslim-majority_countries
http://www.thecountriesof.com/top-10-countries-with-larges…/
-http://cnsnews.com/…/9-10-worst-countries-persecution-chris…
https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-pe…/world-watch-list/
-January 2011 -http://www.theguardian.com/…/muslim-population-country-proj…
