<span>It is thought to have been the reason why Polk won the election over Clay. Polk was a slave owner and was in favor of annexing Texas which was a slave state already, thus growing the slavery movement. Clay was initially against annexing Texas when Van Buren was initially running against him. When Polk ended up winning the nomination for the Democratic party over Van Buren, Clay then changed his mind on the topic of the annexation to support it, as Polk had. This made him appear wishy-washy and led to be Polk becoming President.</span>
The supporters of shi’ahs are called Shiites.
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The religion of Islam has been bifurcated into two broad divisions. These divisions are of Sunni Islam and Shia Islam.
The followers of Sunni Islam believe that a friend of Muhammad named Abu Baker was chosen as his scion after the death of Muhammad.
The Shia's contradict with that proposition and believe that the nephew of Muhammad was chosen to take the responsibility of taking Islam forward.
