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I don't deny that Iran helps palestinian people, but if you look at Teheran you won't find any sunni masjid but you will find about 40 churches and cemetery for baha'is. Sunnis have not even low government posts while even yahuud are represented. Iran is not treating it's sunni minority well.[/quote]
don't speak about things that you know nothing about. Firstly, what is a sunni mosque? I'm sorry but i was not aware that the sunnis had a mosque that was different. Does it have qibla, is it marked by a mihrab, and does it have a minaret? Sunni mosque, or should it be called a Mosque, the Muslim house of worship.
I don't deny that Iran helps palestinian people, but if you look at Teheran you won't find any sunni masjid but you will find about 40 churches and cemetery for baha'is. Sunnis have not even low government posts while even yahuud are represented. Iran is not treating it's sunni minority well.[/quote]
Iran has some very "hard-line" and "extremist" ideologies that are on par with the Saudi's and their Wahabi radicalism.
However, from my understanding of Iran (after the Iranian Revolution of '79), their goal has been *not* to create a sectarian divide in the country. In fact, the leader of the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini himself said that there are only two kinds of Islams:
1) Islam-e-Muhammadi 2) Islam-e-Amerika'i
There are numerous Sunni's living in Qom, Iran, studying theology and Islamic Philosophy.
I have never heard of this policy (of not allowing Sunni's to build a place of worship)-- if it's true, then it's pretty sad and definetley not progressive for muslims and the whole basis of the revolution. For purpose of discussion however, could it not be said that (if in fact this is true) then their reasoning is more valid because they are limiting a sectarian divide within the country? Obviously I am in no position to speculate, but I am just throwing that thought out there as (more or less) devils advocate.
First off, shica masaajid are different than sunni mosques. Adhaan is different, they pray different, they combine prayers and pray 3 times a day, there can be posters of Ali or some ayatullahs inside (how can you pray next to a poster of Ali while angels don't enter places with pictures), khutbas and lectures inside are crazy (the majority shicas, twelvers. Is a good chance that they curse caisha or cumar or abu bakr while lecturing) etc etc...
I wouldn't like to pray in a mosque like that, but in Teheran authorities won't allow sunni community to build mosque....
Sunnis make 9-20% of Iran's population of 70 million. So it's many million sunnis. Still they don't have any seats in parliament while Assyrians, Armenians, Jews and even fire worshipping Zoroastrians are represented.
Just google about discrimination of sunnis in Iran and you will find out a lot. Here is little something:
"Iran's Jewish community, although it has dwindled over the decades, remains the Middle East's largest outside Israel. Iranian Jews are allowed to practice aspects of their religion but are forbidden to teach Hebrew, the liturgical language. ....
The synagogue, one of 16 scattered around Shiraz, has its own library of books, videos and audio tapes.
Three butcher shops sell only kosher meat, and Niknava, the community leader, supervises the slaughter at the municipal slaughterhouse, which provides refrigerated trucks to transport the meat.
Niknava is negotiating with authorities for another Jewish cemetery because the only one in Shiraz is nearly full.
In the Jewish quarter, which lies inside the main commercial district off bustling Karim Khan Zand Avenue, nearly half the shops remain closed on Saturdays, the Jewish Sabbath.
At its height, Iran's Jewish community numbered about 100,000 and was still around 80,000 just before Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. Now there are about 25,000 Jews.
Most who left went to the United States, Europe and, to a lesser degree, Israel, said Dr. Manouchehr Eliasi, the single Jewish representative in the 270-seat Majlis, or parliament. " -------------------------------- Moslima,
Thank you. Unfortunately, not all of this sounds encouraging. The Iranians seem as paranoid of their Jewish community as Westerners are becoming of the Muslim communities in the West. Two executions and thirteen arrests of native Jews for spying for Israel do not bode well. I am reminded of the situation of the Jews in Germany in the Thirties.
Sunni mosque, or should it be called a Mosque, the Muslim house of worship.
