{"id":24492,"date":"2014-03-02T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=24492"},"modified":"2014-03-02T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:07:22","slug":"sunni-and-shiite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/02\/sunni-and-shiite\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the difference between Sunni and Shiite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/O2N8ltPx72o\/maxresdefault.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"140\" \/>Those of you who know me will know that I&#8217;ve spent the last few weeks with my head in a lot of books about <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/tag\/introduction-to-islam\/?order=asc\" target=\"_blank\">Islam<\/a>. You can expect some blog posts on various aspects of Islam in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>However, today I would just like to share a short video concerning one issue within Islam which confused me for the longest time. We hear them mentioned quite a bit on TV, but what is the difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims? Dr. Shabir Ally answers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O2N8ltPx72o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who know me will know that I&#8217;ve spent the last few weeks with my head in a lot of books about Islam. You can expect some blog posts on various aspects of Islam in a couple of weeks. However, today I would just like to share a short video concerning one issue within Islam which confused me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[29,703,2526,2525,2524],"class_list":["post-24492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-islam","tag-muslim","tag-shabir-ally","tag-shiite","tag-sunni"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24713,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492\/revisions\/24713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}