{"id":3251,"date":"2014-06-23T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:11:00","slug":"sunni-shia-divide-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/06\/sunni-shia-divide-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunni Shia Divide Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/emp\/embed\/smpEmbed.html?playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fiplayer%2Fplaylist%2Fp0213sxk&amp;title=World%20at%20One%3A%2016%2F06%2F2014%3A%20The%20Sunni-Shia%20split%20explained&amp;product=iplayer\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is an excellent explanation of the Sunni-Shia divide from BBC Radio (thanks to Emma Le Neve Foster for tweeting the link).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/06\/18\/the-sunni-shia-divide-where-they-live-what-they-believe-and-how-they-view-each-other\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">he Pew Research Center<\/a>\u00a0has some good graphics about the divide, the differences in Sunni-Shia \u00a0beliefs and the way Sunnis and Shias view each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Below is a map that shows where most Shia live. Iran has the largest population of Shias which, says the Pew Research Center, accounts for its support of Pakistan and Syria, which both have Shia populations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NPR also ran good story on the divide several years ago. You can listen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2007\/02\/12\/7332087\/the-origins-of-the-shiite-sunni-split\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2014\/06\/sunni-shia-population.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" title=\"sunni shia population\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2014\/06\/sunni-shia-population.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"314\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excellent explanation of the Sunni-Shia divide from BBC Radio (thanks to Emma Le Neve Foster for tweeting the link). \u00a0The Pew Research Center\u00a0has some good graphics about the divide, the differences in Sunni-Shia \u00a0beliefs and the way Sunnis and Shias view each other. Below is a map that shows where most Shia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":3252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,92],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sunni-shia","tag-sunni-shia-divide"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sunni Shia Divide Explained<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here is an excellent explanation of the Sunni-Shia divide from BBC Radio (thanks to Emma Le Neve Foster for tweeting the link). \u00a0The Pew Research\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/06\/sunni-shia-divide-explained.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunni Shia Divide Explained\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here is an excellent explanation of the Sunni-Shia divide from BBC Radio (thanks to Emma Le Neve Foster for tweeting the link). \u00a0The Pew Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/06\/sunni-shia-divide-explained.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World Religions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-06-23T11:30:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-08-22T21:11:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2014\/06\/sunni-shia-population.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"413\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"314\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"George G. 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