This one caught my eyes (from Hani's thread):
Shia member "power" says:
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Sunnis have a serious problem with justifying their own concept of "RIGHTLY GUIDED CALIPHS" How the hell are they going to refute Ghadeer?
(Wallahi nothing easier than proving the rightly guided caliphs concept, there are CLEAR-CUT hadith available proving this historical fact, in fact those hadith are one of the proofs for the Prophethood because the Prophet, peace be upon him, predicted that the rightly guided caliphate i.e. the first era will last for THIRTY years, this is exactly the period the best and greatest men i.e. Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman, Ali and Al-Hassan ruled over the Muslims! But let's focus on the second part).And as an Ex-Shiite I am not really shocked seeing such blunt statements by Rawafidh (maybe other Ex-Shias such as Ibn Faysal, Husayn etc. can share their opinion). Like all minority cults/sects they are quite sure to be upon the truth, they are fed with so much propaganda in regards to the topic of Ghadir that some Rafidis I've met really think that Sunnis and their scholars either...
1. don't know this hadith
2. Hide this hadith from the Sunni masses
3. Interpret it in a simplistic and illogical way (i.e. when they portray Sunnis as simpletons and Jahils who allegedly believe that the Prophet saws suddenly stopped at Ghadir to tell everybody that Ali is his buddy! That's of course a straw man argument because Sunnis do NOT believe that the friendship between the Prophet and Ali was declared at Ghadir, rather Muslims believe that one of the greatest if not the greatest MERIT of Ali was declared to Ali due to SPECIFIC incidents that happened that made it necessary to ask in PARTICULAR for loyality and love for Ali and not just "friendship" (all believers are friends anyway).
Anyway, the bottom line is that the Shias are quite bold when it comes to Ghadir, most if not all of them have never read a proper Sunni answer (let alone in Arabic where the Ghadir distortion by the Rawafidh has been shred into pieces), heck they are not even aware that if one was to gather ALL Sunni texts in regards to Ghadir (instead of cherry picking as the Shias do) one will come to the conclusion that the Ahlul-Bayt themselves understood the Ghadir incident just as the Ahlus-Sunnah do! Here the best articles available in English language for my Muslim brothers, it's great ammunition and if you sincerily study it you will have even more confidence in the truth that is with the Ahlus-Sunnah and the falsehood that is with the Rafidah who as usual only claim to follow the Ahlul-Bayt but even in regards to the incident of Ghadir they have deviated from them.
1. No to Ghadir QOM, yes to Ghadir Khumm (very important and unique article proving that the Ahlul-Bayt understood the Ghadir statement just as the Sunnis do!): http://gift2shias.com/2013/10/28/no-to-ghadir-qom-yes-to-ghadir-khom/2. Ponder over the pond of Ghadir (simple geographical facts disprove the Shia narrative of Ghadir and on top if it make them look like nutters): http://gift2shias.com/2013/10/29/ponder-over-the-pond-of-ghadir/3. Response to: WHY DIDN’T THE PROPHET OF ALLĀH (P) HIGHLIGHT THE ISSUE OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST IMĀM ‘ALĪ (as) AT ‘ARAFĀT? (look how deceiving their Ayatullats are, seriously ...): http://twelvershia.net/2014/02/24/response-to-why-didnt-the-prophet-of-allah-p-highlight-the-issue-of-complaints-against-imam-ali-as-at-arafat/4. Hadith of Ghadir Khumm [A Sunni Perspective]: http://gift2shias.com/2013/10/24/hadith-of-ghadir-khumm-a-sunni-perspective/5. Umar congratulated Ali at Ghadir-e-Khum: http://twelvershia.net/2013/11/28/802/