re: Bolton giddy over prospects of war with Iran????

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Both Sunni and Shia are bound by the Quran, and the tenets that lie therein.

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Well there is quite a bit of difference between the two. Namely, the Shia have developed a doctrine by which whole sections of the Qu'ran can be reinterpreted by individual Ayatollah's, which has allowed the Shia to be relatively more moderate than the Sunni's, who don't have the strict hierarchical structure of the Shia Jafari fiqh.

The Shia, historically, haven't been the conquerors that the Sunni have. Iran is only Shia because the Safavids wanted to unite all Persians against the Ottomans, among other reasons.