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True, there are many interpretations/sects of Islam..as it is true in many other religions, am I correct?
What you're talking about here is how the religion is used in politics. As for Iran, Talibans, Wahabbists, and any other ultra-conservative take on religion, I personally don't follow (along with ALOT of Muslims in the N. American community --excluding immigrants). They use the religion to advance their own agendas/motives in politics. Don't for one minute think that we Muslims agree with eachother on political actions of zealots because we have a common religion. Sure it pisses us off when idiots do unislamic things under the banner of Islam. You also have to remember that we compromise 1 Billion of the world population and have very diverse religious idealogies ---ultra-conservative to neo-moderates. You can't just bunch them all together.
As for Somalia (yes, I am Somali by blood), they suffer from the same disease that is riddled with majority of the African countries, which is civil war --that has absolutely nothing to do with religion at all.
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