From the militia perspective, the shia factions in Iraq break down as follows. |
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It will go to the shia majority and is the subject of an ongoing struggle with very high stakes indeed. |
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I mean, as so many countries in the Middle East are, you have the Kurds in the north and the Sunni and Shia. |
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Shia and Sunni Muslims have been inimical to each other from their inception, indeed their birth was caused by a war between two groups. |
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It will be drawn from Sunni and Shia, from secular and religious backgrounds, from trade unionists and women's organisations. |
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Would Kurd sit in moral judgment on Sunni, Shia on Kurd, exiles on those who stayed and suffered? |
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There has not been bloodshed, not been a mass call to arms, among the Shia and Kurdish groups. |
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Such sentiments have been made explicit in numerous statements and articles issuing from Iraqi Shia media sources. |
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In 1917-20 it took the British three years to unite the Sunni and Shia against them. |
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He was now hoping for a rapprochement with Shia Iraqis, a concord that I think is unlikely. |
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In the last elections, the ruling family shamelessly gerrymandered electoral districts to dilute the Shia vote. |
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Then the Shia family could have reigned in happiness and strength for all eternity. |
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Buoyed by the religious imprimatur, the country's Shia majority is increasingly looking forward to exercising their democratic rights. |
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Off a lane where market traders push rickety handcarts toward the bazaar, steps lead into the courtyard of a Shia religious school. |
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They were at pains to point out the integration of Sunni and Shia, whether by marriage or by tribe. |
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A Shia victory puts the prize in overtly enemy hands-the Iranian revolutionaries. |
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If they don't, it may finally trigger a full-scale uprising of both Sunni and Shia. |
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It is the British equivalent of Shia Muslims flagellating their backs with chains. |
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We hear a lot about problems between Sunni and Shia Muslims but this is a lie. |
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They are divided into two main groups, Shia and Sunni, with different interpretations of the religion. |
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The city, in southern Iraq, is the site of shrines which are sacred to Shia Muslims. |
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Shia know that many Sunni clerics in Saudi Arabia regularly preach that Shia Moslems are heretics. |
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Everyone who looks at Iraq sees a nation divided between Shia, Sunni and Kurd communities. |
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The Iraqi Shias have produced a unity ticket for the elections under the direction of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the leading Iraqi Shia cleric. |
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They are also unintentionally collaborating in the composition of future sagas of Sunni and Shia martyrdom. |
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It is fine to boast of one's Kurdish, Berber, Sunni, or Shia loyalties, but not of pan-Arabism. |
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The tribes who dominate the town are a combination of Sunni and Shia. |
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In fact the solidarity between the Sunni and Shia goes further. |
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Modernly, such a zone would be both wildly provocative to both Sunnis and central Iraqi Shia and also geopolitically tempting for Iran to get involved. |
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What is the best way to guarantee Shia and Sunni alike are included in the social-political nexus, and to ensure that the region grows economically? |
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The idea is one which every Iraqi seems keen to endorse, though each has his own idea of what democracy means, depending on whether he is a Shia, Kurd or Sunni. |
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He has put together a nonreligious list in hopes of attracting Sunnis, nationalists, and others who don't want to be ruled by Shia religious leaders. |
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Given all of this, Iran is apparently disinclined to foment a political rebellion against Maliki among the Shia. |
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But in Syria, where Shia are a minority, a post-ISIS future threatens to freeze Iran out. |
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He was a prime mover behind the Saudi military intervention in Bahrain a year ago to smash an incipient Shia reform movement. |
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The twin attacks in Quetta, he says, specifically targeted the local minority Shia community. |
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The worst attack occurred after nightfall on Thursday at a snooker club in Quetta in an area frequented by Hazara Shia Muslims. |
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Shia proponents of the elections will argue that while the process may be marred by violence, the process in the long term could end terrorism in Iraq. |
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This means disrupting the process in Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazari Shia towns and villages, not just in the Pashtun south and east. |
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The Saudis' nightmare is a Shia republic in Manama that tilts towards Tehran and encourages Shia unrest in the Eastern province. |
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Even so, several hundred Hezbollah militiamen have been sent to Iraq, say Shia and military sources in Lebanon. |
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Hejazis in the west and Shia in the east resent the strict Wahhabi lifestyle in the Nejd central desert. |
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In Lucknow, the Shia auqaf properties are higher in number, their value running in billions of rupees, perhaps due to Lucknow's Shia nawabs ' munificence. |
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In the north, the Zaidi Shia Houthi rebellion, which has been a chronic problem for a decade, has resumed again. |
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By 2006 Al-Qaeda in Iraq had plunged the country into civil war, pitting Shia against Sunni. |
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The Fatimid caliphs belonged to the Shia tradition, which claimed descent from the fourth Caliph, Ali, and his wife Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet. |
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Closely coordinated with Iran, Maliki consolidated Shia control and expanded his own personal powers. |
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Within hours of completing their takeover of Sinjar, the Sayyida Zaynab mosque, a Shia holy site, was reportedly blown up. |
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It also engaged two marginalized groups, the Shia Houthi and some of the disgruntled movements in the south. |
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I was just reading the news about Shia LaBeouf drunkenly heckling actors during a Broadway play. |
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Normally the Sunni and Shia Moslems do not get along very well. |
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Thus there has been much killing of Sunni and Shia Moslems by each other. |
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Yemen is about a third Zaydi Shia, and they are especially prominent in the north. |
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He was ismaili, a Shia sect, but this was no time for accuracy. |
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The majority of Bangladeshi Muslims are Sunni, followed by the Shia and Ahmadiya. |
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The majority of Muslims in United Kingdom belong to the Sunni denomination, while smaller numbers are Shia and Ahmadi. |
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Both Shia and Sunni sects agree on the essential details for the performance of these acts. |
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The Shia Safavid dynasty rose to power in 1501 and later conquered all of Iran. |
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Some Shia branches label other Shia branches that do not agree with their doctrine as Ghulat. |
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The vassals of Ormuz, the Shia Jarwanid dynasty came to rule eastern Arabia in the 14th century. |
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Shia also face systematic discrimination in employment, education, the justice system according to Human Rights Watch. |
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Chemical weapons were also used against Iraqi Shia civilians during the 1991 uprisings in Iraq. |
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The Iraqi National Movement is led by Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia widely supported by Sunnis. |
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The new constitution was backed by the Shia and Kurdish communities, but was rejected by Arab Sunnis. |
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The rise of the Ismaili Shia Sulayhid dynasty in the Yemeni highlands reduced their history to a series of intrigues. |
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The Ottoman historian claimed that this incident was celebrated by the Zaydi Shia community in the northern highlands. |
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The Yemeni army launched a fresh offensive against the Shia insurgents in 2009, assisted by Saudi forces. |
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The Shia rebels accused Saudi Arabia of providing support to salafi groups to suppress Zaidism in Yemen. |
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There are an estimated 3,000 to 8,000 Shia Muslims, most of them foreign residents from Lebanon or Iraq, but also a few citizen converts. |
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However, the Sunni Ormusi were not popular with Bahrain's Shia population which suffered religious disadvantages, prompting rebellion. |
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A very small minority of Saudi citizens are Shia Muslims, and there is also a large foreign workforce. |
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Among Muslims, Sunni are in the majority, while there are also Shia and Ahmadiyya minorities. |
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Human Rights Watch in its 2015 report described the situation of a Shia majority as more than tragic. |
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The majority of Muslims are Shiites, although there are no official figures for the proportion of Shia and Sunni among the Muslims of Bahrain. |
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In Awadh, Sunni Muslims did not want to see a return to Shiite rule, so they often refused to join what they perceived to be a Shia rebellion. |
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The Ibadi legal school, distinct from Sunni and Shia madhhabs, is predominant in Oman. |
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Under the rule of the fiercely anti-Shia Taliban, Ashura commemorations were forbidden, and the country's Shia population kept a low profile. |
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Wahhabist Sunni Saudi Arabia bitterly opposes Shia Iran as a regional hegemonic rival. |
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And then there's ISIS and what the Saudis call America's 'unholy' alliances with the Shia and Alawis. |
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Anyone who wanted to see Shia LaBeouf without the buff is out of luck. |
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Yid think we'd learn our lesson, That violence does not pay, But Sunni piled on Shia, Still haunts us to this day. |
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Domestic unrest among alienated Shia mullahs and unemployed youth was not even a minor blip on our diplomatic radarscope. |
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They are the victims of Shia death squads in Samarra and Tikrit. |
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More than 2000 people from the Shia Ja'afari sect were praying at the mosque at the time of the bombing. |
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Maulana Abubakar was arrested in February in Kasur district, Punjab for making a speech against the rival minority Shia sect. |
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Even as the battle for Taj Mahal continues between Shia and Sunni sect leaders, a section of Shia leaders have upped the ante. |
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The IS group considers Shias to be heretics and is fighting Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq and Syria. |
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Najam Haider's The Origins of the Shia treats the emergence of Imami and Zaydi Shi'ism in eighth-century Kufa. |
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This year Shia Muslims around the world took part in Ashura processions, flagellating themselves and walking over burning coals. |
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If Shia, is he a Twelver or a Sevener, or perhaps from one of the Ismailite Assassin sub-sects, or an ultra-conservative Zaydiyah? |
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Syria, as well as Iraq, divides between Sunni and Shia but includes other Isalmic divisions such as Ismailis, Druzes and Alawis. |
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Widely unnoticed, Iraqi Sunni and Shia centralists have managed in the last couple of months to form a united parliamentary platform that leaves sectarian tensions behind. |
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If one imagines a radical axis stretching from Tehran through Israel's 'enemies', Sunni Syria could be seen as the odd-man-out amongst the Shia Muslims. |
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Shia Persians form large communities in Manama and Muharraq. |
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It gave a new prominence to clerics within the political system, with the most senior Shia religious leader, Sheikh Isa Qassim, playing a vital role. |
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During the revolutionary process, it was the Shia hierocracy which was most instrumental in inciting, organizing and directing the masses in anti-shah demonstrations. |
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It is a sentence that is creating rage among Saudi Arabia's two-million-strong Shia minority that has long claimed to be persecuted and discriminated against. |
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The Saudi government has often been viewed as an active oppressor of Shia Muslims because of the funding of the Wahabbi ideology which denounces the Shia faith. |
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