@ IbnSohan, post #42,
Circus.
You should admit that you are losing the battle today. Shiaism is growing and spreading in Africa, east Asia and Western world which is your newer headquarters.
The reason is simple : These nobel Hadiths of Ghadir and Thaqalyin were hidden for centuries from the Sunnis.
Ah circus? Welcome to the circus then brother Ibn Sohan.
And yes we know that Shiasm grows in areas of deep ignorance and poverty, just like Christianity. I'll tell you where Shiasm doesn't grow, in gatherings of knowledge and intellect such as this forum right here.
As for Ghadeer and Thaqalayn being hidden, I wonder what universe you live in, I thought they were Mutawatir and widespread according to you? Suddenly now they're hidden? Almost every single book of Hadith and Sharh and `Aqeedah contain both the narrations you mentioned, and our scholars like al-Dhahabi wrote entire books just to gather the chains of Ghadeer.
What a big fat lie! Shi'ism is growing in the most deprived areas where the BIGGEST JAHL AND ZANDAQAH exist (guess why ...), areas such as west Africa where African brothers themselves told me that Sufism and Voodoo cults are mixed! No wonder Shias convert some freaks to their filthy Mushrik beliefs. As for the western world, then this is just a bad joke right? 99% of converts except Islam and Sunnah not Kufr (Rafidism), I mean what mentally healthy former Catholic would leave Ya Jesus/Mary/Saint x,y,z for Ya Ali/Fatimah/Imams etc. anyway? Exactly, only a die-hard Mushrik, not a sincere revert:
MMuXw
As for East-Asia, then again I've met numerous East-Asian (some on this board) and they too confirm that only the most extreme Sufis (Semi-Rafidis) accept Shi'ism, no real Sunni would replace Tawheed with kufr, never (also Shias used to have much freedom in east Asia, while Al-Azhar is not allowed to operate ANYWHERE, not even in Sunni areas of Iran, the Rafidah of Iran have built a Shia HAWZA in the Sunni stronghold and Capital of Malaysia! Alhamdulillah the Malaysian gov. is chasing them just as Sudan is, after all why shall Shias have the right to do propaganda in our strongholds if we are not allowed to the the same inside Iran?)
As for "headquarters", It seems the Rafidah are missing out what is going on in their very fortress:
http://forum.twelvershia.net/general-sunni-vs-shia/the-rise-of-the-sunnais-ex-shias-(video)/msg445/#newShi'ism is dying out in its fortress Alhamdulillah, the internet is breaking it's
neck ribs, all good and sincere Shias are accepting Tawheed and Sunnah, alhamdulillah.
Hani, forget about it, they are scared, they know nothing has been hidden, for flips sake the Ghadir narration is in OUR books in our MAJOR book Sahih Muslim our books have been translated for DECADES into other languages (unlike Shias who are scared to translate a SINGLE Tafsir book, well I'd be ashamed as well, it's full of batiniyyah and lunacy), the likes of Imam Al-Nawawi have written SHARH on Sahih Muslim (and the Ghadir hadith) our youth have exposed the Ghadir lie with evidence from the Ahlul-Bayt themselves:
http://forum.twelvershia.net/general-sunni-vs-shia/the-rafidi-narrative-of-ghadir-khumm-as-weak-and-shallow-as-the-rafidi-deen/Heck they own scholars said the Ghadir incident is not a strong dalil:
http://gift2shias.com/2012/05/14/nass-on-imamah-sharif-al-murtada/... yet these people have the audacity to claim that anything has been hidden! Wallah nothing has been hidden (except the useless 3aj 3aj serdab dweller), the truth has been hidden from the Shias this is why even their experts are scared to debate (look how scared they are of Hani, they know he's a big gun and he will destroy their Ghadir myth). Shias should stop dreaming and smelling the Turban or at least come to debate, we will show you how weak and shallow your Ghadir myth is, Ghadir has nothing got to do with leadership, none of the Ahlul-Bayt ever believed so and neither do we and we will disbelief in this till the day of Judgement.
Oh, as for Al-Thaqalayn, that one too has been distorted by Shias, every Sunni talib can refute it, like on this beautiful blog (wonder how he found a "hidden" narration, lol):
http://youpuncturedtheark.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/explanation-of-hadith-ath-thaqalayn/