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First of all I must say I dint like to label myself as anything but Muslim. But since I dint label myself as Shea or else I can comment on this one.
There are many sects within each of the sects you've mentioned.
For example: there are Shiites who hold Ali bin Abi Talib so respectfully that they practically worship him. this is against the gist of Islam..hence they re simply lost, whereas there are Shiite sects that are very strict when it comes to monotheism and they do not take dead men as guides for their own..this is the gist of Islam..you take God as your guide not anyone else.
as long as the people who belong to different cultural sects, follow the main ten nets of the religion and do not indulge in acts that go against the spirit of Islam, then to me they re Muslims, if theyre not, they are lost and they need guidance from God.
this is however not a reason for me to want to kill them, their religion is between them and God and only they are responsible for it.
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