Why are Iranians Shiites?

Sunni as well as Shiites.

I think that the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites must be stopped.

Today, Iraq may be on the verge of civil war between Shiites and Sunnis.

savage reprisals against the Shiites in southern Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War

The faith based killings of the Shiites in Pakistan is not the first of its nature.

This is notably the case where entrenched groups Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis compete for central power.

The Islamic Government regard the rights of Sunnis as highly as it does the rights of Shiites.

True, sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have escalated since the fall of Saddam.

Dr. Muhammad Taqi writes about the attitude of media towards the killing of Shiites and other minorities

Another regional issue shaping Lebanese domestic politics is the ongoing violence between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq.

But contrary to common perception, Iraqi Shiites do not form a homogenous block that opposes the supposedly unified Sunnis.

The Shiites back Hezbollah because it appeals to their communal pride, represents their interests domestically, and stirs their religious passions.

This rise of the Shiites and the resulting Sunni Shia divide is alleged to be creating an ever widening chasm in the region.

Indeed, what will now shape the future of the region is not democracy, but the violent divide between Shiites and Sunnis that the Iraq war precipitated.

This was an attempt to spark religious and sectarian strife, first between Shiites and Sunnis, and between religious minorities and Muslims.

Recent developments in Iraq allegedly point to a fundamental clash between Sunnis and Shiites in the region and bear witness to malevolent Iranian interferences.

From Iran s perspective, any future threat originating from Iraq needs to be averted by ensuring the participation in Iraq s government of Shiites and Kurds.

In Saudi Arabia, it is difficult even for Muslims who don t adhere to the ultra orthodox Wahhabi sect Shiites, for example, routinely face discrimination.

Declines occurred in all three leading ethnic communities from 39 to 35 among Shiites, from 20 to 6 among Sunnis, and from 11 to 5 among Kurds. There was some increase in the number of Shiites who thought that there should be a strong religious element in national laws, the majority still opposed this.

35. It called on the Iraqi Government to, inter alia, end its human rights abuses against the Kurds in the north and the shiites in the southern marshlands.

Hezbollah has also been shaken by the abduction and continued detention of a dozen Lebanese Shiites some close to Nasrallah by opposition forces in Syria.

There was some increase in the number of Shiites who thought that there should be a strong religious element in national laws, the majority still opposed this.

Sectarian conflict seems to be increasing on a daily basis, with militias massacring hundreds of Sunnis and Shiites solely on the basis of their religious identities.

Hezbollah has also been shaken by the abduction and continued detention of a dozen Lebanese Shiites some close to Nasrallah nbsp by opposition forces in Syria.

When Iraqi Shiites, Kurds, and Marsh Arabs rebelled against Hussein, they believed that American forces would protect them against their brutal dictator s superior firepower.

The change was felt in all communities, rising from 41 to 48 among Shiites, from 77 to 84 among Sunnis, and from 16 to 50 among Kurds.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt claims that Shiites are always loyal to Iran, while King Abdullah of Jordan has coined the axiom about a rising Shiite crescent.

Whereas Hezbollah and Amal swept the Shiite districts in the South and the Beqaa Valley, confirming their dominant position among Lebanon s Shiites, Aoun delivered less than half the Christian votes.

The Saudis fear that Sunni Shiite discord, spreading from Iraq across the Arab world, might harm the kingdom, whose Shiites are concentrated in the oil rich eastern part of the country.

As to the generalizations made regarding the Shiites, he pointed out that Shiite Muslims were found not only in southern cities but throughout the country and in particular in Baghdad.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt claims that Shiites are always loyal to Iran, quot while King Abdullah of Jordan has coined the axiom about a rising Shiite crescent.

He repressed the Shiites, the traditional opponents of Sunni dominated regimes in the region. He suppressed the Kurds, reassuring both Turkey and Syria, countries with sizeable and restive minority populations of their own.

At another level, Iran s rise, reinforced by its suspected bid for nuclear weapons threatens to awaken historical hostilities, between Sunnis and Shiites and between Persians and Arabs.

Declines occurred in all three leading ethnic communities from 39 to 35 among Shiites, from 20 to 6 among Sunnis, and from 11 to 5 among Kurds.

By contrast, there was no such imminent risk in Iraq in 2003, though there certainly had been a decade and more earlier for the country s northern Kurds and southern Shiites.

With Iraq probably becoming the first Arab country to be ruled by Shiites, and hence integrated into an expanding Shiite Iranian empire, America s Sunni allies in the region now view the US as unreliable.

Iraq s future, if it still has any, will depend first and foremost on Iraqi Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds, and, secondly, on Iraq s neighbors and their interests and risk calculations.

57. The Special Rapporteur refers to the deportation in the early 1980s of large numbers of Shiites of Iranian origin and states that, after the events of 1991, Shiite cultural and religious property in southern Iraq was destroyed or confiscated by the Government.

Political commentator Andrei Piontkovsky said nothing of Putin's mortal coil, warning instead that Putin is dragging Russia into a Middle Eastern holy war. Saving Assad's butt, Putin throws Russia into the sizzler of a medieval religious war between Shiites and Sunnis.

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