Between the two types of the Islamic religion it was the Sunni.
Answer A (shia view)shia believes "the cursed tree" in the Quran is Umayyads family tree.shia curses Umayyads and reject them. Yazid, who killed shia Imam Imam Hussain S.A was from Umayyads. and also other Shia Imams were killed by Umayyads. shia believes Abusufyan (founder of Umayyad governments) was who made biggest harm to Islam and in the name of Islam destroyed Islam in fact and made a fake version of Islam that continues today. shia consider Umayyads enemies of Islam but in the name of Islam. according to shia at Badr war many of relatives of Abu sufyan (Umayyads) were killed by prophet and Ali S.A. and this made a great envy of prophet and Ahl ul Bayt in heart of Umayyads and they killed and destroyed real Muslims and real Islam as much as they could in response.
The political centre of Islam was Damascuss under the Umayyad Caliphate.
Although the Omayyad were Sunnis but neither the Omayyads were against the Shiites nor the Shiites were against the Omayyads.
ISLAM
Islam
Islam had already taken roots in these areas much before Pakistan came into being in 1947. Islam first came to the Indus River valley during the conquests of the Umayyads who took parts of Sindh and Punjab in the early 700s.
The Umayyads were an aristocratic Meccan family who had been appointed to b the governors of Damascus. The assassination of their cousin, Caliph Othman, provided the perfect excuse for this family to make a gambit for more political power. They were successful in this. The Umayyads were also generally unconcerned about Islam and were not bothered by the fact that they were opposing a government composed of Muhammad's Apostles.
There is no such group. The Umayyads were supported by the Sunnis because they had temporal power, but the Sunnis never had a requirement that the ruler need be a descendant of the Umayyads; their precondition for having the right to rule was having the power to effectively govern.Perhaps this question confuses the Shiite requirement that a rightful ruler be a descendant of Ali ibn AbuTalib. Ali and the Umayyads were enemies and are in-no-way related.
the Shiites.
Shiites
They supported Islam.
Sunni branch (around 85% of total Muslim population)