How To Use Shiite In A Sentence
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When you hear the terms imam and ayatollah, these refer to Shiite religious leaders.
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the majority of Irani are Persian Shiite Muslims
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Shiites of this branch believed that the Prophet Muhammad's successors or vicars were his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, and the eleven lineal descendants of Ali and the Prophet's daughter, Fatima.
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Although the oil-rich kingdom has escaped the sort of unrest unleashed in Egypt, Libya or Tunisia, there have been signs of domestic discontent over high unemployment, as well as some nervousness that Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim minority could be inspired by the protests of their co-religionist neighbors in Bahrain.
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In the Shiite branch of Islam, a high-ranking religious authority regarded by his followers as the most learned person of his age.
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Mr. Sistani, the true hero of Iraq's survival and incipient renaissance, is the standard-bearer of the traditional Shiite view of politics called "quietism," which rejects the clerical rule invented by the Ayatollah Khomenei in Iran.
Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy
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Iran has Revolutionary Guards stationed in Lebanon and it, effectively, holds sway over extremistShiite Moslem terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah, the Party of God.
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The generous outreach to Sunnis is widely viewed as a profound betrayal by Bahrain's rulers and feeds Shiite perceptions of second-class status and being under siege from what they call a "mercenary" security force.
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Qassem Zein/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images ASHURA FESTIVAL: Shiite Muslims carried candles outside the Imam Ali shrine during an Ashura ceremony Sunday in the Najaf, Iraq.
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A military interpreter before he switched to journalism, he was streetwise; a Shiite who lived in a Sunni neighbourhood; a survivor.
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Yet because most of the victims were Kurds, Shiites, marsh Arabs, Iranians and Kuwaitis, the question was why it should matter to the West—anymore than, say, the butcheries in the Congo matter.
Tyranny and Indifference
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Left, Shiite Muslims flagellated themselves during a Muharram procession in Amroha, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sunday.
India Observes Muharram
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Iraq has a large Shiite Muslim religious shrines, each year tens of thousands of Shiite Muslims from around the world come to pilgrims, mostly from neighboring Iran.
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If the truth about Jaleh Place's event find difficult to reach the ears of French people, it's because journalists have diabolized the Shah's regime and cannot confess they exaggerated the facts for purely ideological reasons without knowing anything about the history of Iran, Islam, Shiite or Iranian society which suffers from the mullahs 'burden!
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Authorities had braced for large - scale protests marking the culmination Sunday of an important Shiite Muslim commemoration.
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In the 11 th century in the Middle East the Shiite sect known as the Assassins would eat hashish before murdering civilian foes.
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Many Shiite clergymen maintain that birth control is proscribed by Islam.
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(In its message, the group referred to Sistani as a "polytheist," the extremist Sunni slur about Shiites.)
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The main counterargument is that a Kurdish-Shiite invading army would have made it even harder to deal with Sunnis after Saddam fell.
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The attack was particularly notable because Najaf, a revered city in Shiite Islam, has been among the safest places in Iraq in recent years.
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The attack was the latest assault on the majority Shiite community.
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The Assad regime is dominated by the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, but the country is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim.
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Lt.Gen. Lloyd Austin attributed the decline mainly to efforts by Iraqi forces to choke off radical elements of Shiite militias in the southern cities of Basra and Amarah.
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In the newsroom — called the fishbowl — are crammed three groups, compared by one dramatic industry type as the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds of network news.
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The Iraqi Bar Association cafeteria is one of the few public places in Baghdad where Sunnis and Shiites can openly have conversations, al-Dulaimi says.
Shortage of Iraqi lawyers no joke
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Mr. Dulame said Iraqis from the Shiite muslim majority generally prefer President Bush.
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At the same time, the number of Iraqis found slain, apparently in tit-for-tat killings by Shiite and Sunni extremists, has sharply increased in western neighborhoods.
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Khomeini preached the theory of wilayat al-faqih (jurisconsult); an elitist concept associated with the supremacy of senior Shiite clergy.
Joshua Gleis: Religious Divisions in Iran's Leadership -- More than Meets the Eye
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First, we learned that when you removed the authoritarian lid the tensions between Iraqi Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis erupted as each faction tested the other's power in a low-grade civil war.
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The year after the American-led coalition overthrew Saddam's dictatorship in 2003, al Qaeda in Iraq revealed a cynical plan to kill and maim Shiites to spark a sectarian war.
Iraq's Tenuous Post-American Future
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The intercept from the barbarians reads as follows: “Dear Brothers (we don’t recognize “sisters except for breeding and incubating purposes), Soon, very soon, we will unleash our brand of Islam on the Shiites and the Kurds – bide your time, we will act as soon as the cowards from America retreat.
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He said in an interview that he would never allow direct talks with the coalition, but said discussions were being led by Iraq's four leading Shiite ayatollahs.
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During the mass, Shiite Muslim leader Ammar al-hakim , son of the head of Iraq's most powerful Shiite political organization, walked into the church.
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A military interpreter before he switched to journalism, he was streetwise; a Shiite who lived in a Sunni neighbourhood; a survivor.
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BAGHDAD — As Iraqi politicians wrangle through a seventh month of government-formation talks, an unexpected casualty is emerging: Iranian influence over the country's fractured Shiite groups.
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One of the ideological origins of Sheikh School was the integration of the Shiite ideas and Sufism in history, and later Sufism was stripped out from the mainstream Shiite thought.
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the majority of Iraqi are Arab Shiite Muslims although Sunni Muslims control the government
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Iran has Revolutionary Guards stationed in Lebanon and it, effectively, holds sway over extremistShiite Moslem terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah, the Party of God.
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Just yesterday, we heard Sen. McCain confuse Sunni and Shiite, Iran and Al Qaeda," said Obama.
For third time in two days, McCain AGAIN gets facts wrong about Al Qaeda in Iraq
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“A sharp rise in bloodletting between Shiites and minority Sunni Arabs has raised new fears of a slide to all-out civil war.”
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Pakistan became the scene of a proxy war between mostly Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia, with both sides funnelling money to sectarian groups that regularly targeted each other.
Twelve die in Pakistan bus attack
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The risks are far from over in Iraq, especially given Iran's desire to keep ethnic strife aboil and prevent the emergence of a strong, democratically elected and Shiite-dominated government.
Iraq's Casualty Decline
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Shiites believe that the 12th Imam, a lineal descendant of Muhammad, supernaturally disappeared in the ninth century and will one day come back to restore justice in the world.
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It is being bruited about that the council will have a Shiite majority, though the religious Shiite parties will not be allowed to dominate it.
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At that time, millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims converged in Karbala, southwest of Baghdad, to mark the religious saints Imam. 700 anniversary of Hussein's death ceremony.
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Religion: Islam is the State Religion , Shiite Muslim 60 %, Sunni Muslim 37 %; other 3 %.
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Shiite leaders are planning a congress that can establish the instrumentalities for creating the region of ‘Sumer’ in the south, which will consist of 3 consolidated provinces.
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While the Iranian regime appears to be finding support these days in Shiite quarters from Beirut to Baghdad, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is searching for theological backing this week in his own backyard.
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In the matrix, Sunni schools endorse whoever the Muslim community chooses to lead it as legitimate ruler, while Shiite Islam assigns religious and political leadership to the decedents of the Prophet as infallible Imams, on behalf of which the Shiite scholars act as agents.
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Some of our sources are Shiites and Sunnis from non-Wahhabi traditions -- people condemned as "polytheistic" or "deviant" or "bad" in these texts -- others are simply frustrated that these books do so little to prepare young students for the modern world.
This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.)
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III. Iraqi and US forces raided the Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad today.
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The real outcomes involve a state run by Shiites, tolerant of an independent Kurdish Sunni substate, allied with Iran, and dependent on oil revenues to survive.
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An Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein aide Tariq Aziz to death for his role in the torture and killings of Shiite Islamist party members.
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As a result, like the Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, the Jews in Israel, and the Shiites in Iran, the Sinhalese are a demographic majority with a dangerous minority complex of persecution.
Buddha’s Savage Peace
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Lebanon's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, shot back that Qaradawi was trying to incite "fitna" - the word for internal civil strife among Muslims that is anathema to followers of Islam.
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Anthony Shadid reports today that a series of six car bombs “struck markets, a police convoy and a gaggle of workers in Shiite Muslim neighborhoods Monday, killing 32 people and wounding more than 120 in one of the most violent days in the capital in months.”
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He's one of only five living Grand Ayatollahs and is Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric.
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Violence increased December 27, which coincided with the Shiite Muslim holy day of Ashura.
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What we are witnessing is a contest between the Shiite idea of an imamate, where, essentially, God is the head of state, versus the Republic, in which the people rule.
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Rahman also said his birthday was a low key due to Moharram, which is a mourning period for Shiite Muslims all over the world.
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Mr. Rafsanjani traveled over the weekend to the northeastern city of Mashad to discuss the postelection political crisis with high-ranking Shiite clerics.
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McCain doesnt know the difference betwee sunni and shiite muslims, if you dont know your enemy how ar e you going to beat em Mr McBush.
Gates: Next president likely to take 'sensible approach' to Iraq
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Right now, the Lebanese population outlay is somewhere around 23% Shiite, 23% Sunni and 41% Christian.
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Car bombs struck Shiite targets around Baghdad today, killing dozens.
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Iraqi officials say fighting today between government security forces and Shiite militias in the city of Basra has killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 18.
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Religion: Islam is the State Religion , Shiite Muslim 60 %, Sunni Muslim 37 %; other 3 %.
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The overflights are a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a devastating 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah militia.
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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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The chief ayatollah of the Shiite Muslims in Iraq says he wants direct democratic elections to take place.
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The white-turbaned Shiite cleric, who has held several senior government positions since the 1979 Islamic revolution, said in an interview Tuesday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, along with the clerics and Revolutionary Guard commanders who support him, will be defeated by what he describes as a burgeoning movement of ordinary people, ayatollahs and lawmakers.
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The suicide attack in Hangu comes a day after the start of the holy month of Muharram, which is especially important for Shiites, but has been marred by bombings.
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David Guttenfelder/Associated Press MARKING MUHARRAM: Pakistani Shiite Muslims beat their chests during a Muharram procession in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday.
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But more seriously it goes on to say that any drop off in violence in Baghdad is because the sectarian cleansing is complete in most areas and there are fortressed enclaves of Sunnis surrounded by Shiites.
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Above U.S. soldiers inspect the scene of a double bombing close to a bus station in the Shiite Muslim district of Bayah in western Baghdad on Feb. 11 2009.
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In Bahrain, where many Shiites openly nurture cultural and religious ties to Iran, the Saudis saw the case as even more open-and-shut.
The New Cold War
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If it breaks out and the country partitions into three elements Shiite, Sunni & Kurd, is that such a bad thing?
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And if you think Mr. Lott has been silent for the last four years, Tim Grieve has a collection of some of the Gentleman from Mississippi's bon mots: Lott on Iraq: After declaring that Senate Republicans and "real people out there in the world" don't "obsess" about Iraq like reporters do, Lott said in September that he doesn't understand why Sunnis and Shiites are fighting each other anyway.
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The tribunal is expected to indict members of the powerful Lebanese Shiite faction - Hezbollah.
Tensions Mount In Lebanon Over Hariri Murder Probe
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Ali Jasim/Reuters SHIITE MILIITIAS ROIL SADR CITY: A masked Iraqi Shiite militiaman dashed across a street, carrying a rocket propelled grenade launcher, near graffiti which reads in Arabic 'No Bush', in the east Baghdad suburb of al Sadr city on Aug. 7, 2004.
Looking Back at Iraq
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Hundreds of Shiite worshippers, weeping and moaning in grief, beat their chests in mourning.
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The Diyala council members who supported the bid for semiautonomy were Sunni Arabs and Kurds; most of the opponents in the streets are Shiites.
Disruptions Mount in Iraq
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In Egypt, the press has increasingly reported on what it calls a covert Shiite invasion.
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Al-Maliki, a Shiite who is trying to remain atop Iraq's parliament, has barnstormed southern Iraq and Baghdad, holding rallies at soccer stadiums and visiting tribal leaders in predominantly Shiite areas where he is popular.
Iraq faces biggest test yet of democracy
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The Omayyad dynasty of caliphs ruled from Damascus until 750, when Shiite Muslims, who descended from the caliph Ali, massacred the Omayyad family.
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Shiites the death every year on the tenth day of the Islamic holy month of Muharram.
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Iran appeared to have scored a big victory on Friday when the Iran-based firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr did an about-face and told lawmakers in his movement to endorse Mr. Maliki, giving the incumbent prime minister a big leg up in trying to form a new government.
Baghdad Wrangling Rattles Iran Ties
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Security had been beefed up in the city as in the other parts of Pakistan for the Islamic holy month of Moharram, which is often marred by sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
Election Fears in Pakistan Build
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Iran has had a theocratic Shiite regime since Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was ousted in the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
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First, the Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni organization -- Sunni Islam is, by its nature, less hierarchical than the Shiite brand of the religion.
Abdulrahman El-Sayed: Why the U.S. Should Support the Protestors in Egypt
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Former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite, also took a stab at what he called a tepid U.S. response to the unrest against the tiny island's Sunni monarchy.
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Religion: Islam (official), divided between Sunnite and Shiite.
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More broadly, the Shiites can use this provision to place their ayatollahs over the elected parliament, as in Iran, because they alone are authorized to determine the ‘rules’ of Islam.
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In an escalation of the rivalry, the main Sunni-backed political bloc on Sunday announced it was boycotting parliament to protest what they called Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's attempts to monopolize government positions - particularly those overseeing the powerful security forces.
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Throughout the sector, as in other areas of southern Lebanon, small mainly Shiite villages nestle in the valleys.
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Iraq's most powerful Shiite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim died of lung cancer at a hospital in Tehran, Iraqi official television reported Wednesday.
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The momentum began when President Obama stood up to call the legalized rape "abhorrent," an American president standing up for the women in a country with extremists, dangerous realities even in their own neighborhoods, and where Shiites make up only 10% of the population.
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In Baghdad, Ayad Allawi, the Shiite former prime minister who leads a mainly Sunni contingent within the government, met with his Iraqiya group to discuss ways to ease Mr. Maliki out of his role, while Kurdish leaders met in Erbil, the capital of the semi-independent Kurdish region, with the same goal.
Iraq Political Leaders Seeking Maliki's Ouster
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In a common fallacy, however, many Sunnis tend to conflate Iraqi Shiite Islamists with the Iranian regime next door, even though the political ideology of Iraqi Shiites does not mesh with Ayatollah Khomeini's vilayet e-fakih (the guardianship of the jurist) and although ever since their return from exile in Iran in 2003, the Shiite Islamists have actively sought to shed whatever Iranian veneer they had acquired.
Iraq on the Edge
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The change in the rules of engagement might help, but with only 20,000 more troops I do not see our forces being able to independently hold ground we wrest from the Sunni, or especially the Shiite, insurgents (or "militias" if you prefer).
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The religious element is part of what makes the appeal of the opposition movement so powerful, which should be yet another reminder of the simplistic and monotonal American public understanding of Islam - particularly Shiite Islam -- in the Middle East.
Howard Schweber: Iran's Revolution: A Hard and Uncertain Path
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There was also the awakening movement, which is emerging as a leadership challenge to the Shiite rulership … something both the Shiites and Sunnis recognize.
Matthew Yglesias » Iraqi Self-Identification
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Rather, Hezbollah sprang from the resentment of Lebanon's long-oppressed Shiite population, and the bounteous backing of Iran.
The Lessons of the Second Lebanon War
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They increasingly see their fight as one that includes tasks usually left to politicians or diplomats, such as cajoling the Shiite-dominated government to extend basic services to Sunni areas where they have been withheld.
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It is hoped that efforts to better conserve the country's myriad sites could also boost tourism, which is now heavily dependent on Shiite Muslim pilgrims visiting Iraq's various religious shrines.
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South of Baghdad, Iraqi villagers and soldiers unearthed at least 13 bodies from a shallow, dusty grave in farmland on the outskirts of Latifiyah, a mostly Sunni town that also has some Shiite residents.
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Yemeni authorities have accused the rebels of seeking to restore the Zaidi Shiite imamate that ruled in Sanaa until its overthrow in a 1962 republican coup that sparked eight years of civil war.
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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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The Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council is thought be behind the hundreds of posters in Shiite areas of Baghdad bearing the image of the country's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in a move designed to use the name of the much revered cleric to attract voters.
Iraq's Sunnis fear election could spark violence
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Moslem caliph ( 656 - 661 ) after whose assassination Islam was divided into Sunnite and Shiite sects.
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There have been Shiite dynasties in the past, especially in Iran, where the 1979 Islamic revolution produced the biggest contemporary itineration of Shia power.
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To the extent the Shiites feel attacks, Iran will be seen as a stalwart coreligionist ally.
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Photos: Looking Back at Iraq Reuters A masked Iraqi Shiite militiaman dashed across a street in the east Baghdad suburb of Sadr City on Aug. 7, 2004.
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Consider the town of Bamiyan, in the isolated, ice-bound northwest region dominated by the Hazara, the country's Shiite minority.
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The biblical patriarch Abraham and Babylonian King Hammurabi lived in what is today Iraq, while Imam Ali, the founder of Shiite Islam, died there.
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In addition, as members of the Sunni Awakening Movement reportedly peel off in disillusionment or disgust with the present largely Shiite government and rejoin the insurgency in significant numbers, his modest success is threatening to unravel behind him -- and so is American support for the Afghan War he now commands, according to the opinion polls.
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The attack comes just a day after the start of the holy month of Muharram, which is especially important for Shiites but is often marred by bomb attacks.
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Out of respect for his father and not wanting to increase the younger cleric's allure, the ayatollahs and other Shiite political groups have mostly remained silent in public about the situation.
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This is significant, the Sunnis had previously boycotted elections, resulting in Shiite dominated provincial governments in areas where Shiites were a minority, and in Shiite representation in normally Sunni areas.
Matthew Yglesias » Iraqi Self-Identification
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Just yesterday, we heard Sen. McCain confuse Sunni and Shiite, Iran and Al Qaeda.
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That was a reference to rival Shiite militiamen from the Badr Brigade who have infiltrated security forces participating in the ongoing crackdown against breakaway militia cells the U.S. has said were linked to Iran.
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What's more, Galbraith has long championed the idea of partitioning Iraq, presumably into three regions that roughly encompass the country's three stakeholder groups (Shiite, Sunni and Kurd).
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Ali Wasif, 23, a Shiite student leader who witnessed the bombing, said he attributed it to "Zionist" and other non-Muslim "elements.
Clashes at Karachi university reflect city's intractable feuds
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Military Command in Baghdad, and the Chief Executive Smirker, Bush himself, said plainly that Iran was sending armour-piercing IEDs to Shiite militias in Iraq, which many saw even then as a bald-faced lie.
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A Shiite mullah or imam of such huge importance can't be underestimated.
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Iraqi official say fighting today between government security forces and Shiite militias in the city of Basra has killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 16.
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He wants Islamic law or shariah to be the law of the land, but does not want the Shiite clerics to be government officials.
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The Interior Ministry previously blamed what it described as "seditious" residents, saying they attacked security forces with guns and firebombs with the backing of a foreign enemy - an apparent reference to Shiite power Iran.
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The authorities have accused the rebels of seeking to restore the Zaidi Shiite imamate that ruled in Sanaa until its overthrow in a 1962 republican coup that sparked eight years of civil war.
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The Shiite Muslims who predominate there revere Hizbullah for pressuring Israel to withdraw in 2000.
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Win or lose, a recent rise in support for Mr. Allawi, viewed by U.S. officials as a potential bridge-builder between the Sunni and Shiite sects, is likely to make him an important player in the fractured government.
Shaky Start for Iraq Vote
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Months after Katrina, and Wilma the Gulf Coast region (and New Orleans especially) remain devastated, and its people scattered around the country because the lying sack-of-shiite prezidisapointment stood on national television in prime time amid floodlights in New Orleans and …. lied.
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Its proximity to Iran and the fact that the majority of its citizens are Shiite Muslims can dominate your vision of Azerbaijan until you realize that the most impressive public building in Baku is not a mosque but a copy of the grand casino at Monte Carlo.
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PRT members based in Karbala and Babil provinces said the Iraqi government's controversial decision to ban more than 400 candidates from participating in the election because of purported ties to Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party may motivate some disaffected Shiite voters to head to the polls.
U.S. official: Election of 'enormous' importance to Iraq
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Given that Sunnis and Shiites were engaged in sectarian violence that amounted to civil war not three years ago, these developments are not beneficial to what is a very socially fragile state.
Matt Kane: Iraqnophobia: The Political Tornado of American and Iranian Influence in Iraq's Parliament
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Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images RELIGIOUS RITE: Shiite Muslims flagellated themselves during a religious procession on Monday in Lahore, Pakistan, as Ashura processions began.
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