Re: Filling the great gap…
hey lets save this for some firey discussion elsewhere. At least exaggerations have been refuted by our scholars and we have sayings from the imams which exhort the shias to refrain from such canards. I could go on and on about sunnies having built in defense mechanisms when it comes to sahabas and their glorious acts. But that is not the discussion here.
Unity means tolerance. And tolerance is not an impossible task to achieve. You dont have to convince the other party to your beliefs to achieve unity. I dont agree with cursing prominent personalities revered by sunnies. I dont believe in saying the call to the prayers three times a day only. I detest this habit of shias. But they do have the right to criticise. They have the right to carry out their jaloos and azaadari. Sunnies and Shias have coexisted peacefully in the past, at least in pakistan. And they still do, except for the few salafis that we have today. I never had problems with any sunni in my life and we never had the urge to discuss religion. That is unity. Live and let live.