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Near Manama, Bahrain, the police fired tear gas at protesters in a Shiite village. This photograph was released by an opposition group.

He said he wanted to be buried in our family cemetery in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, "not in Syria, Dubai or Amman. "

The deadly attack came as the minority Shiite community of Pakistan was getting ready to mark its annual mourning known as Ashoura.

Just as they tried to stoke a Shiite-Sunni civil war in Iraq, and failed, they are now trying to stoke a Hindu-Muslim civil war in India.

In the Shiite branch of Islam, a high-ranking religious authority regarded by his followers as the most learned person of his age.

A group of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims have returned home safely after being caught up in a kidnapping ordeal in neighboring Syria.

The Iraqi army says at least 22 people are dead after a bomb tore through a busy square in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad today.

You and the rest of the royal family are Sunnis, and you're scared to death of Shiite extremism and an Iranian-backed Shiite insurgency.

It was launched by a Shiite-dominated government out to break the local control of militias led by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Thousands of religious travelers are gathering for the end of a Shiite religious observance there.

At least two other major explosions targeted mostly Shiite areas of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

He says he was threatened by the Mahdi Army, a militant Shiite group, and told to leave.

Pilgrims visit Al Kazimiyah Shrine, a Shiite holy site relatively unharmed by the years of violence.

A bombing at a major Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, has left at least 15 people dead and dozens injured.

Every neighbor would be threatened: Russia in its partly Muslim south, China in Xinjiang, Shiite Iran by fundamentalist Sunni trends.

The bombs were planted in two cars parked at a bus station in a mainly Shiite part of the city.

Information from new radar also could potentially help the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah with its missile arsenal and air defenses.

They also said they feared a Shiite government might be too religious and impose restrictions on society.

Iraq's Interior Ministry says at least 27 people were killed in a series of bombings today near Shiite mosques in Baghdad.

Pakistani police say a suicide bomber has attacked a crowded Shiite Mosque and killed at least 22 people in a town south of Islamabad.

Naderi was an Ismaili, a member of a Shiite sect.

The improvement came as Iraqi forces assumed the lead in offensives in three cities and a truce with Shiite extremists took hold.

Many Sunnis have resisted cooperating with Iraq's unity government for fear they would be discriminated against by Iraq's Shiite majority.

Abubakar Mohammed, spokesman for the Shiite community in Sokoto, said around 20 houses belonging to members of his community were razed.

In the looking-glass world of this group, a police force staffed by foreigners is preferable to a police force staffed by Shiite citizens.

According to the police the attack occurred in Diyala province, the main objective of the attackers targeted Shiite pilgrims.

Authorities had braced for large-scale protests marking the culmination Sunday of an important Shiite Muslim commemoration.

Khomeini deepened his interests in poetry and mysticism as a young man studying in the Shiite holy city of Qom.

These impermissible actions that the Shiite do on the day of 'Ashura' have no basis in Islam.

Fighting also erupted in the capital, Baghdad, between suspected Mahdi fighters and members of a rival Shiite faction.

A bomber struck a religious procession here Monday, killing at least 25 people in the latest attack on the minority Shiite Muslim community.

The Rashad psychiatric hospital lies at the very end of the sprawling Shiite slum of Sadr City.

Karbala, south of Baghdad in Iraq's Shiite heartland, is one of the world's holiest Shiite cities.

Saudi Arabian police fired live ammunition in the air last week to disperse Shiite Muslim protesters in the kingdom's eastern province.

Iraqi police officials say at least 51 people were killed in a car bombing in a mainly Shiite section of Baghdad, another 75 were wounded.

But it also was not the usual warfare between Iraq's rival Islamic camps of Sunni and Shiite.

He is going to visit the holy Shrine of Iman Kadim, one of Shiite Islam's 12 holy leaders or Imams.

Members of one group sometimes see members of another group as less than human: Nazi and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi, Sunni and Shiite.

Sadr's message came as his allies in Shiite Iran began talks with the United States to seek a solution for Iraq's war.

The Shiite council that administers mosques and shrines across Iraq has strongly objected to the restoration, for different reasons.

The kingdom is ruled by a Sunni minority, which has long discriminated against the Shiite majority.

In recent days, the Shiite-led opposition has capitalized on the regional unrest to renew its own calls for reform.

US forces are also involved in a major offensive in the city of Diwaniyah against Shiite militia forces.

In Saada, the situation was aggravated by a protracted conflict between government forces and militant Shiite rebels, UNICEF said.

Above, attendees of a Feb. 18 funeral stand before a mural that references the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, an early Shiite saint.

Scores of Shiite Muslims have rioted at central Pakistan, a day after a suspected suicide bombing killed worshipers near a Shiite mosque.

In the great Shiite-Sunni Muslim clash that cleaves the Middle East, score one for Iran's radical Shiite theocracy.

The attack targeted Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr and occurred as the faithful were leaving after Friday prayers.

MARKING MUHARRAM : Pakistani Shiite Muslims beat their chest during a Muharram procession in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday.

Even so, the current government of Iraq, led by prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, is mostly made up of pro-Iranian Shiite Islamists.

Many Awakening members are angry because promises of jobs in the Shiite-dominated government have not been kept.

In Shiite areas, including Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad, residents flooded the streets, whooping and dancing and honking car horns.

Sunni rulers have struggled for years with a restive Shiite population.

Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers have long faced a restive Shiite population that alleges economic and political discrimination.

Late Sunday, about 30 people were wounded in a smaller explosion at a Shiite procession in a middle-class neighborhood.

In March, Karzai signed a marriage law bill for Afghanistan's Shiite minority that critics said essentially legalized marital rape.

A military interpreter before he switched to journalism, he was streetwise; a Shiite who lived in a Sunni neighbourhood; a survivor.

The Assad regime is dominated by the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, but the country is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim.

The Federal Interior Ministry spokesman, Javed Iqbal Cheema, says the attack occurred when the mosque was crowded with Shiite worshipers.

Recently, thousands of people from Iran and Shiite Muslims in other Islamic countries came to pay tribute to their holy sites in Iraq.

Eastern province is home to both the kingdom's Shiite minority and its enormous oil reserves.

He met with Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders this week, but no political reforms have been announced.

Victims of a suicide bombing are taken for burial in the Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq.

The attack came a day after radical Shiite Muqtada Al-Sadar called a cease fire with Iraqi and coalition troops.

Hezbollah was founded in 1982 by Lebanese Shiite clerics inspired by the Islamic revolutionary ideology of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.

Israeli air strikes also repeatedly struck the predominately Shiite suburbs of southern Beirut.

"They focus on historical matters, " the Shiite caretaker of the tomb, Sheik Aqil al-Ghraawi, said of the board's officials and experts.

Most Syrians are Sunni Muslim, but Assad and the ruling elite belong to the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

Al Dari accuses Iraq's new Shiite-dominated government of arresting, torturing and killing Sunni scholars.

It's suspected that the blast was due to tensions between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

Millions of Shiite pilgrims travel each year to the major holy sites of Islam here, including Najaf and Karbala.

Fighting also erupted in the capital Baghdad between suspected Mahdi fighters and members of rival Shiite faction.

In Bahrain, a Sunni minority, 30 percent of the population, rules over a Shiite majority.

Demonstrators have demanded the release of Shiite prisoners they feel are being held without cause.

Religion: Islam (official), divided between Sunnite and Shiite.

A shoe is raised during a protest against President Bush's visit to Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad.

That attack targeted a religious procession of the minority Shiite Muslims and killed more than 40 people.

A train passenger traveling from Baghdad to Karbala, a Shiite holy city some 60 miles south of the capital, reads a prayer book.

Meanwhile, in the Shiite-dominated south of Lebanon, Hezbollah has been flexing its muscles to aid the Syrian government.

Meanwhile, Sunni militias are targeting Shiite academics, and vice versa.

A Shiite festival held during the first ten days of this month.

The explosion caused massive damage at the Imam Bargah Ali Raza mosque, a major Shiite house of worship in downtown Karachi.

Meanwhile, the Shiite marriage law sailed through parliament.

The number of minarets on a mosque indicates whether it is Shiite and Sunni.

Iraqi anti-US Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr threatened that if the continued presence of U. S. troops, he will return to armed resistance.

He says the Sunni community feels it is not fairly represented in the Shiite-led government.

The US has accused Iran of arming, training and funding Shiite extremists inside Iraq.

His group secured two seats more than the bloc led by Nouri al-Maliki, the current Shiite Prime Minister.

Roughly nine out of 10 Muslims worldwide are Sunni, and about one in 10 is Shiite, they estimated.

Iraq now has a Shiite-dominated government and many senior officials who are ominously friendly with Iran.

A high-ranking male Shiite religious authority, generally assuming a political role and regarded as worthy of imitation.

Lawmakers loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have announced that they are withdrawing from the Shiite bloc in parliament.

One of the holiest Shiite shrines in all of Iraq has been hit by a car bombing.

Invite Saudi Arabia to come kill a Shiite cow and import another Sunni cow.

Ricardo S. Sanchez, referring to the 30-year-old Shiite cleric whose militia has fought with U. S. and other occupation troops since Sunday.

Violence increased December 27, which coincided with the Shiite Muslim holy day of Ashura.

In early 2008, Shiite militiamen gunned down my husband in a drive-by shooting.

Officials in Iraq have increased security in the Shiite city of Karbala.

Iraqi officials say a bomb attack in a Shiite area of Baghdad and has killed 15 people and wounded more than 30.

Clashes there have sparked retaliatory fights in Baghdad and other Shiite cities.

Almost certainly what will emerge is a Shiite Iraq allied with Iran.

Your Shiite friends have already implicated you in the bombing.

Mr. Dulame said Iraqis from the Shiite muslim majority generally prefer President Bush.

Local police were protecting the procession because of regular sectarian attacks on Shiite Muslims, a minority sect in Pakistan.

With sectarian tensions primed by that show of Shiite power, the parliamentary election on March 7, 2010, produced a stalemate.

Monday's blast was Karachi's second attack in 24 hours on a Shiite religious gathering.

Hassan is a Shiite Muslim, is the oppressed hazra, courage and integrity, couldn't read.

Local 29, the Iraqi High Criminal Court for alleged persecution of Shiite Kurds from the additional 10 years in prison on Aziz's decision.

Shiite places of worship destroyed.

The Zaidi sect is a big one of the Islamic Shiite.

Religion: Islam is the official religion, Sunni Moslems- 85%; Shiite Moslem-15%.

In the past al Qaeda-linked militants based in Pakistan have struck at Shiite targets.

A Shiite Muslim guards a checkpoint in Kabul.

Of course, the Iraqis recognize, as we do, that Iraq and Iran are natural trading partners and have a religious bond as majority Shiite.

But also, with provincial elections tentatively scheduled for October, the battle may reflect a contest among Iraq's Shiite parties.

Thursday's explosion took place near another Shiite mosque where a suicide attack last year killed at least 11 people.

Which of the following Muslim countries does not have a Shiite majority?

Shiite and Sunni citizens could go to their own court searching for the justice.

and held prisoner for a week during the Shiite rebellion after the '91 Gulf War

Baghdad car bomb kills at least 51, police say Another 75 are injured as attackers target mainly Shiite section of the city

In addition, the table also played the tune "Koran" and the father of Ali, Shiite Islam's portrait, said the owner of the pious;

Shiite officials who met with the ayatollah said eh found the latest draft acceptable, if not perfect;

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