| The Kurds are already doing so in the north, and many shiites are doing so in the south. |
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| Meanwhile shiites who put their faith in Tehran are being slaughtered en masse. |
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| The ayatollah wields considerable influence among Shiites, who make up more than 60 percent of Iraq's 25 million people. |
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| Shiites constitute 60 percent of Iraq's population and are heavily concentrated in the southern part of the country. |
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| Shiites highlighted the Arab roots of Shiism and defended Shiite poets of the Abbasid period whom Sunni writers depicted as shuubis. |
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| Such murders have typically been reprisals by Sunnis or Shiites on the other community. |
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| Local leaders said the attack was an attempt by militants to fuel a civil war between the Shiites and the minority Sunnis. |
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| The most important fracture is not between Shiites and Sunnis, but between Arabs and Kurds. |
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| Right now, a Diyala politician would have to try to satisfy Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shiites. |
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| That it would fairly treat the Shiites and the Sunni, and for that matter the non-Arab Kurds? |
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| He said he read his father accounts of Shiites attacking Sunni mosques in mixed neighborhoods. |
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| It shows that he consistently misunderstood Iraqi Shiites as non-ideological and unreligious, contrasting them to Iranian Shiites. |
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| What's the best way to bring Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds together under a cohesive democracy? |
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| Also the Shiites produced the Babi movement, which threw Iran into turmoil in the 1840s and 1850s and had an anti-Western cast. |
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| Nizari Ismailis follow Aga Khan as their leader and celebrate his birthday as a holy day rather than the Muharram, which most of the Shiites celebrate. |
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| In Iraq, there is a real concern over the emergence of Alnusra Front and Salafists who are most averse to Shiites in the region. |
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| The violence has fueled the sectarian tensions between Shiites and Sunnis. |
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| Shiites have nourished that dream ever since their failed revolt against the British in 1920, when the plan of Shiite clerics to dominate Iraq misfired. |
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| Iraqi Shiites, for the first time, had their chance to be the main force in a unified Iraq. |
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| He recognizes the immense popularity the party enjoys among Shiites, and the unlikelihood that this will change any time soon. |
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| As they began their procession, a motorbike laden with explosives hit a bus full of Shiites. |
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| Since most expatriates are Shiites, Kurds and Chaldeans, moreover, allowing expatriates to vote in this election might well be viewed as harming Sunni interests. |
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| Iran is a complex which contains the mausoleum of Imam Reza, the eighth Imam of Twelver Shiites. |
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| Shiites are holding religious events during the month of Muharram of the Hijra calendar. |
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| The Muslims from Qazvin denounced the menace of the Nizari Ismailis, a heretical sect of Shiites. |
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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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| This condition in Bahrain was so important that the clergymen of Iran went to Bahrain for obtaining the Shiites science. |
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| It's very different from Iran's Shiite branch of Twelver, and part of the conflict is among Shiites themselves. |
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| Most of Saudi Arabia's estimated two million Shiites live in the east, where the vast majority of the wealthy kingdom's oil reserves lie, and many complain of marginalisation. |
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| Extremist group Daesh, which considered Shiites heretics, claimed responsibility for the bombing, the first attack the group has carried out in Saudi Arabia. |
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| However, several Saudi Shiite figures confirmed to Al Arabiya that the attack did not target Shiites in particular, but to promote sectarian tensions in the country. |
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| Iraqi authorities had said that the leader of the Soldiers of Heaven claimed that he was the Awaited Mahdi, believed by the Shiites to be the duodecimal imam. |
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