What is true regarding the effects of islam's split into sunni and shia branches of muslims today

Struggles between Sunni and Shia forces have fed a Syrian civil war that threatens to transform the map of the Middle East, spurred violence that is fracturing Iraq and widened fissures in a number of tense Gulf countries. Growing sectarian clashes have also sparked a revival of transnational jihadi networks that poses a threat beyond the region.

Islam’s schism, simmering for 14 centuries, doesn’t explain all the political, economic and geostrategic factors involved in these conflicts, but it has become one prism by which to understand the underlying tensions.

east-west schism. the greatest effect of the east-west schism was the creation of two separate churches that had previously been unified under one church, the eastern orthodox church and the roman catholic church.

judicial because its legislative, executive and judicial