All you need to know about the shiite Muslim group in Nigeria

The history of shiite date back to the death of prophet Muhammed in 632bc.when the issue for who will succeed prophet Muhammed came up. His followers could not reach an agreement on whether to chose bloodline successors or leaders most likely to follow the tenet of the faith. The shiite favoured
 Ali Muhammad's cousin and son in law, while the sunnis

 chose Abu bakr the prophet political adviser. And that lead to a division within the Muslim community. Ali and his descendants are called imams, who not only lead the shiite but are considered to be the defendant of prophet Muhammed. About 90% of muslims are sunni Muslims and they have being the dominant school in the middle east for years. Although shiite are spread across the middle east and South Asia but they only constitute a majority in Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, which is ruled by a sunni king.

The conflict between the shiite and the sunnis Muslims is easy to view as eternal hatred that will keep claiming lives for the foreseeable future. Yet despite its ancient root the divide hasn't being this bloody for centuries. And it is only in recent years that it has emerge as the biggest fault line in the battle for dominance in the middle east and beyond. The difference between this group has always existed but it is only when you mixed it with politics, that it becomes really dangerous as dangerous as an atomic bomb. Though the two movements are enemies,

there are disturbing parallels between the

2015 Zaria killings and the 2009 killing of

Boko Haram members and the murder of its

leader, Muhammed Yussuf, which led to its

murderous radicalization. In both cases the

numbers killed may have been of the same

magnitude: eight hundred. There are

differences. Yussuf was murdered; Zakzaky

was not, though the description that he was

“bloodied” and suffered bullet wounds

indicates it may have been close. But, perhaps

the most significant difference is that Boko

Haram had no foreign patrons then; Zakzaky

and the Nigerian Shia do have a foreign

patron:Iran, although Nigerian is a sovereign state and so cannot be influenced or coerced by other countries but what if the shiite decides to retaliate and Iran government decides to sponsor them, because the Iranian government sees themselves as the defender of the shiite. This will result in another long ending war which I strongly believe that Nigerian government are not ready to go into. I will humbly suggest that the Nigerian government reach a compromise with the shiite on this issue, if possible compensate them for their losses, because a peaceful and stable Nigeria is what every Nigerian need. And apart from that Nigeria needs to focus it resources on other sectors of the economy and not fighiing a war that is detrimental to the growth of our economy and the integration of the Nigerian people.