Shia

You said that there was no history of violence between Shia and Sunni and you were wrong.

Furthermore, Shia-led government that the American props up in Baghdad thinks of Iran as its best foreign friend. it's irony of ironies.

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Apparently reckoning he would be unable to beat his Shia rivals, he decided to join them.

On Saturday an estimated 50, 000 supporters of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr marched in Baghdad to call for US troops to leave Iraq.

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At the local level, Sunnis, Shia, and Kurds are beginning to come together to reclaim their communities and rebuild their lives.

Its agents were trying to convert Sunnis and spread Shia texts that insult historic figures revered by Sunnis.

Security official said the blast occurred near a restaurant in the mainly Shia Muslim Shula district in the northwest of the city.

I can guess this shape and I can say its name. It's a square! This shia shape has three sides and it looks like an arrow.

A party loyal to a Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, said it would support the incumbent prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, in his bid to stay on.

Iraq's Shia-led government, which used to fear the prospect of a Sunni regime displacing Mr Assad and his Alawites, has become chillier.

Even the oil-rich Shia south, considered comparatively stable a year or so ago, is lawless (see article).

If some Shia do slander the three caliphs and Ayisha, they do it out of ignorance and should ask God' s forgiveness.

Mr Allawi, himself a Shia Muslim, believes the mystical (or Sufi) tradition must be an integral part of the revival of Islamic civilisation.

But the south has long been a destination for Shia Muslim pilgrims wanting to visit the holy sites at Najaf and Karbala.

Bahrain's disgruntled Shia majority was put back in its box, with a harsh Saudi hand.

The governor, Habiba Sarabi, is the former Minister of Women and as a Shia will have to obey the law if it is passed.

They are renaming streets from Arabic to Kurdish and paying Kurdish families to return (and Shia Arabs to leave).

A sectarian attack like this had been feared on what a particularly holy day for Shia Muslims.

Police in Pakistan say a suicide bomb at a Shia Muslim procession in the city of Quetta has killed at least 50 people.

And in Lebanon, Sunni Muslims and a large section of the Christian community voted to keep the Shia out of power.

The adoption by some Salafist broadcasters of a strident, aggressive tone against Shia and Christian minorities has alarmed authorities.

But the outcome of any confrontation is also predictable: namely, that the Kurds and Shia would prevail.

Yet it also empowered the long- disenfranchised Shia majority, a natural bridgehead for Iranian influence.

Shia political parties in Iraq have been staging mass demonstrations ahead of an emergency parliamentary debate later today.

In Iraq, the return of widespread bombings in Baghdad and elsewhere by insurgents led to the unravelling of the governing Shia coalition.

A suicide bomber in Iraq has killed at least 27 people in an attack on a bus carrying Shia pilgrims, police say.

The balance of power looks likely to shift slightly against the pro-Western alliance in favour of the Shia party-cum-militia, Hizbullah.

But as a Sunni Muslim close to the Muslim Brotherhood, he has condemned Bahrain's democracy activists as Shia bigots and tools of Iran.

The main Shia party has called it an "invasion" , whereas many Sunnis see it as a "brotherly" intervention to restore order.

Shia-led Iraq, an important neighbour to the east, which has feared the onset of a Sunni regime to replace Mr Assad's Alawites, abstained.

A leading Bahraini Shia politician has returned to his country from self-imposed exile in Britain.

A devout man, he is sympathetic to Shia Islamism, though by no means blind to its excesses.

A young boy looks through a bullet hole in the window of a school in the Shia area of Sadr city in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

But Iraq's Sunni minority would be outraged if Mr Allawi, a secular Shia with strong Sunni support, were excluded from a government.

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Above all, Iraq needs a leader who can appeal to its Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs and Kurds, divided by a chasm of ethno-sectarian hatred.

Iraq's constitution is decentralising enough to please Shia and Kurdish voters, but anathema to the once-dominant Sunni Muslims.

In Shia Iran, by contrast, religion has top place: the supreme leader is always a cleric .

Saudi Arabia has yet to open an embassy in Baghdad, which has been taken to mean that it deems Iraq's new Shia-led order to be illegitimate.

The Shia Family Planning law was signed last March by President Hamid Karzai in an attempt, many believe, to appease powerful mullahs.

But with a diffuse network of Sunni guerrillas pitted against equally disorganised Shia militias, nobody has the authority to deliver.

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They fear a theocratic regime that embraces the Shia tradition of martyrdom may not be deterred by a nuclear balance of terror.

Under the Afghan constitution, the country's 10 per cent Shia minority is allowed to settle family affairs under its own jurisprudence.

With Saddam dead and a friendly Shia government in Baghdad, the mullahs in Tehran are showing a new self-confidence.

In places, in the name of "resistance" or Islam, Shia militias also attack American soldiers.

The danger now is that the gloating of his Shia executioners will make him into a martyr for the Sunni cause.

The suspects have not been named, but Lebanese officials say several of them are members of the Shia organisation Hezbollah.

A news agency in Shia-majority Iran posted a story that blasted the sheikh as a front for "international Freemasonry and Jewish rabbis" .

Sectarian Shia forces and those Kurds who sought near-full autonomy did less well than had been expected in the poll.

Bahrain's Shia Muslim majority has long complained of discrimination and dominance by the Sunni minority, including the ruling royal family.

The anti-coalition insurgents have been joined by sectarian death squads whose aim is the ethnic cleansing of mixed Sunni and Shia areas.

Zaidi, an Iraqi Shia, has had the common Iraqi experience of being caught between the warring parties.

A car bomb in a Shia neighbourhood in Baghdad killed at least 40 people and injured scores of others.

In Iraq, al Qaeda and other Sunni extremists blew up one of the most sacred places in Shia Islam -- the Golden Mosque of Samarra.

The broader Sunni -Shia war has subsided, but it has not disappeared.

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From Iran's point of view, Hizbullah's audacity against Israel is a magnificent advertisement for its particular brand of Shia piety.

He has begun tentatively tackling the lethal Shia militias, now as much a scourge as the Sunni insurgents.

In December, Sudan's authorities closed Iran's stall at a Khartoum book fair after Sunni activists accused it of spreading Shia propaganda.

This week's attacks were a direct challenge to the authority of the Shia-led government.

Meanwhile, suicide-bombs in Baghdad and Karbala, one of Shia Islam's holiest Iraqi towns, killed more than 60 Shia pilgrims.

Mr Assad's power is concentrated among his own Alawite sect, a Shia breakaway minority that numbers barely 6% of Syrians.

It empowers Iran, the revolutionary Shia state that the conservative Sunni Saudis view as their main rival for regional influence.

The Shia-led government has overseen a ballooning of the country's security apparatus. Human-rights violations are becoming more common.

The morgue is deemed by Sunni to be under the control of Shia militiaman who may kill or arrest Sunni looking for murdered relatives.

At least 45 Iraqi Shia pilgrims, many of them on their way to a shrine, were killed in a series of bomb attacks in Baghdad.

The new commander, General David Petraeus, was certainly lucky: Sunni militants turned against al-Qaeda, and Shia ones declared a ceasefire.

Only Iran, for whom Syria is a priceless Arab ally, and Hizbollah, the Lebanese Shia movement Damascus sponsors, have real cause for alarm.

The huge Shia procession were struck on one of Karachi's main roads by what security officials say was a suicide bomber.

In Jordan, villagers turned back pilgrims going to a local Shia shrine.

In other news, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has addressed a huge rally of Lebanese Shia Muslims organised by Hezbollah.

Some western government analysts believe this could include asking Lebanon's Shia movement Hizbollah to strike at the US.

Some working Shia do combine noon and afternoon and evening and night, but Shia scholars recommend performing them separately.

More than 40 people were killed in a suicide-bombing in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, that targeted a procession of Shia Muslims.

The only two major Shia-controlled nations are Syria and Iran.

Now Islam is having to contend with a sharpening split between Sunni and Shia.

Iraq's unrelenting violence included two particularly vicious bomb explosions in Sadr City, a Shia district of Baghdad.

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Posters have appeared in Sunni strongholds warning the king not to give in to Shia demands.

Mr Mutlaq had a promising liaison with Iyad Allawi, a Shia, who was a tough, secular-minded former prime minister.

But on August 24th the leading Shia party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, and some of its allies dumped Mr Maliki, another Shia.

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Protests broke out across the suburbs of Damascus, including in Sayyida Zeinab, a mainly Shia area.

Radical Shia elements, some of whom receive support from Iran, formed death squads.

Even so, whipping up anti-Christian (or anti-Shia) hysteria remains a plausible strategy for al-Qaeda among young Muslims.

But Iran's "malign involvement" in arming and directing Shia militias was also a problem.

At the same time, the number of Shia MPs has risen from five to nine, closer to the minority sect's 20%-plus share of the population.

Many other Shia politicians have joined what looks like a witch hunt.

The biggest surprise is the fracturing of the Shia political establishment.

The team would have to include Shia as well as Sunni members.

The amended Shia personal status law was passed by the Afghan cabinet in secrecy earlier this month.

The attack represents a direct challenge to the authority of the Shia-led government.

One is led by Iyad Allawi, a keenly secular Shia and former Baathist who was a prime minister after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Allies of Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran took sides against each other ferociously over the airwaves.

This atrocity, directed at a Muslim house of prayer, was designed to provoke retaliation from Iraqi Shia - and it succeeded.

This week in Iraq, yet another round of bombs deliberately targeted Shia civilians, killing scores.

In mainly Shia Basra, most of the insurgency is aimed at British soldiers rather than Iraqis.

The crowd was mostly of Hazaras, members of an organised Shia community.

Ill feeling between Sunni and Shia is growing across the Gulf.

The authorities in Bahrain have freed two former MPs from the Shia opposition after several months in custody.

"I have always had a soft spot for the Shias of the south, " said Shahristani, himself a Shia Muslim.

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Opposition parties had urged people to take to the streets as the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura reached a climax.

Al-Qaida terrorists, insurgents and Shia' militia militants compete to plunge the country into civil war.

Support for Mr Allawi, a secular Shia who once belonged to Saddam's Baath party, exceeded expectations.

But King Abdullah has compensated in part by increasing Shia representation in the Shura Council.

Western and Sunni Arab panic at Shia Iran's advance has created a diplomatic vacuum and flung Mr Blair's and George W.

Response: Shia consider the first three caliphs as great companions and good Muslim administrators, but not spiritual leaders (imams).

A representative of Mr Maliki's Shia-dominated group said a mere misunderstanding had occurred.

Israel and Hizbullah, the Lebanese Shia party-cum-militia, fought a full-blown war here four summers ago.

As to the results, first returns showed that allies of Nuri al-Maliki, the Shia prime minister, did well, particularly in the south.

Most of the attacks have concentrated on Hizbullah's strongholds in the Shia suburbs of Beirut and in the south.

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This doctrine is intolerant of minorities, including Shia Islam, and abusive of women.

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If you organise a mourning demonstration for a Shia imam, you'll have 30 million behind you.

The Saudis may also fear that protests by Bahrain's Shia population could spill over their own borders.

The militias are said to use the weapons sparingly, mainly in response to attacks on Shia targets.

Once again Shia slum-dwellers in Baghdad and the south voted in numbers for Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist cleric.

If America with more than 140, 000 soldiers cannot subdue the Sunni minority, why expect the largely Shia government forces to do better?

If a more harshly sectarian Shia-led government emerges, a wider Sunni insurgency could yet be rekindled.

Like most Sunni extremists, some in al-Qaeda regard Shia Muslims as virtual apostates.

If a Shia-led coalition took shape without Sunni co-operation, sectarian resentment will worsen, and violence could increase again.

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It is a lot more business-friendly than it was three years ago, when anti-Western Shia militias controlled the streets.

Many Sunnis have taken up arms against the new Shia-dominated order.

Ayatollah Sistani, the most revered Shia on the planet, has often urged restraint in Iraq.

It comprises five main schools of interpretation (four Sunni and one Shia).

But now the Shia militants who control southern Lebanon are hugely exercised about the issue.

And how will that Shia party react if, as many now suspect, an international tribunal under the UN's aegis fingers its men?

The Saudis accuse the Iranians of fuelling Shia unrest in the Gulf and the Saudis now want to secure Pakistan and Afghanistan on their side.

Two days after that, another 40 people died in a series of bomb attacks, mainly in Shia districts, also in Baghdad.

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Still, the weapon's appearance only in Shia areas does hint at an Iranian link.

On the Shia side, it is not clear whether Mr Sadr has given up violence for good.

Today, the Shia are both allies, as in Iraq, and enemies, as in Iran.

After police opened fire on a crowd of mainly Shia demonstrators, the government declared martial law.

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But a minority, perhaps 10-15%, are Alevi, a humanist branch of Shia Islam.

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With around 8m people, most of them Shia Muslims, it has the biggest population.

More than 100 people died in attacks on Shia Muslims last week. The Pakistani Taliban says they carried out the attacks.

In Iraq, the Shia voted in a Shia government.

In this deadly terrain, Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia are poisonously sectarian.

Sunni and Shia Arabs were at each other's throats and both groups distrusted the Kurds.

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The open area is a cemetery and mosque for the Shia sect.

Late last month, American and Iraqi troops smashed a Shia cult called the "Soldiers of Heaven" .

It sacked or suspended over 150 Shia players, staff and referees, including six Al-Ahli footballers.

He was convicted of persecuting Iraq Shia parties during the 1980s and 1990s.

Between November 20th and 23rd, four men were killed in protests in the eastern, Shia-populated city of Qatif.

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But Mr Sadr has recently spent more time in Iraq, mainly in the Shia's holy city of Najaf.

And the Shia would pray with the Sunni in one line.

In the end, troops from the interior ministry did so, but only because they belonged to a rival Shia party.

Bahrain's Sunni royal family, ruling a population that is two-thirds Shia, is afraid of Iran's influence.

Mr. Maliki, a Shia, took office in 2006 with al-Sadr's support.

The 3, 000 lives killed heinously, and his mis-reading of Islam confound Shia and Sunni.

It is a Shia party, allied with non-Arab Iran.

There is also a Twelver Shia minority, mainly of Azeri descent.

Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death for ordering the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail in 1982.

We have a vicious Sunni-Shia sectarian strife.

He gestured to the mortar rounds. "I bought these from Shia people who had received them from U. S. troops, " he said.

Some towns in the province have a record of Shia-Sunni enmity.

New Delhi, India: A Shia Muslim boy drinks water as he flagellates himself during an Ashura procession

But half the militiamen loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's fiercest Shia cleric, are thought to have quietly returned. They lie in wait

Even in Shia Islam, where succession to Muhammad is seen as a sacred mandate, the authority handed down was spiritual, not temporal;

Rawalpindi, Pakistan: Shia Muslims distribute free food at a religious procession during Ashura

Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan Shia Muslims flagellate themselves with chains during an Ashura procession

Ahmadi, Kuwait: Authorities search a damaged Islamic Shia prayer hall after an explosion caused by a gas leak

Shia Muslims, in Iran and beyond, are feeling increasingly nervous and lonely

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Lebanon's Shia leaders are not sure what to do about Syria