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What is the Shia-Sunni divide?

  • Written by Ken Chitwood, Ph.D. Student, Religion in the Americas, Global Islam, University of Florida
imageThe Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, when both Shia and Sunni Muslims come together to pray.Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA

In his address in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, May 21, while calling on Muslim leaders to lead the fight against terrorism, President Donald Trump identified Iran as a despotic state giving safe harbor and financing terror in the Middle...

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