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Sunni
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  • Meanwhile, mostly Sunni insurgents took hold of al-Anbar province, a large sector of the country to the west of Baghdad.†   (source)
  • Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death.†   (source)
  • Sunnis and Renly Baratheon war against each other, and the Prince of Dome has consented to wed his son Trystane to the Princess Myrcella.†   (source)
  • And ISIS, for all its evil, is Sunni.†   (source)
  • Some groups in Iraq were resisting the distribution, mostly Sunni tribes.†   (source)
  • "Sunni" comes from the Arabic for "one who follows the traditions of the Prophet, PBUH."   (source)
  • The tailor had instructed him in the Sunni way of prayer, Mortenson realized.   (source)
  • Now he was praying like a Sunni at the heart of Shiite Pakistan.   (source)
  • Apo Razak, a refugee from Indian-occupied Kashmir, was a Sunni, as was Suleman.   (source)
  • The book said part of the reason Pashtuns had oppressed the Hazaras was that Pashtuns were Sunni Muslims, while Hazaras were Shi'a.   (source)
  • Then even when we got our own country there was still fighting, but this time it was between mohajirs and Pashtuns and between Sunnis and Shias.   (source)
    Sunnis = people of the majority denomination of Islam (80-85%)
  • We Muslims are split between Sunnis and Shias—we share the same fundamental beliefs and the same Holy Quran, but we disagree over who was the right person to lead our religion when the Prophet, PBUH, died in the seventh century.   (source)
  • After Muhammad died in Aisha's arms (according to Sunni doctrine, which is disputed by Shiites), she took on an active and public role, in a way that annoyed many men.   (source)
    Sunni = the majority denomination of Islam (80-85%)
  • He prayed five times a day when he heard the call from a nearby mosque, worshipping in the Sunni way in this Sunni land, and poring over the Koran.   (source)
  • Just past Chilas, a Sunni-dominated region, a dozen masked men armed with Kalashnikovs blocked the road and forced the passengers out.   (source)
  • They separated the Shia from the Sunni and cut the throats of eighteen Shia men while their wives and children were made to watch.   (source)
  • A few months earlier, Mortenson had read in the Islamabad papers about Pakistan's latest wave of Sunni-Shiite violence.   (source)
  • Wahhabism is a conservative, fundamentalist offshoot of Sunni Islam and the official state religion of Saudi Arabia's rulers.   (source)
  • The men questioned Mortenson closely about his work and nodded in approval when they learned he was educating four thousand Sunni Afghan refugees in Peshawar as well as the Shia children of Baltistan.   (source)
  • Some background on Islam in Iraq: There were two main groups of Muslims in Iraq, Sunnis and Shiites.†   (source)
  • It was not like Sunnis Baratheon to lie about such a thing.†   (source)
  • Before the war, Shiites lived mostly in the south and east, say from Baghdad to the borders, and Sunnis dominated around Baghdad and to the northwest.†   (source)
  • The people here were mostly Shiites, whereas my earlier battles in Iraq had been primarily with Sunnis.†   (source)
  • It is a patch of empty desert between Aleppo and the Sunni Triangle of Iraq.†   (source)
  • It combats Sunni extremism while at the same time nurturing it.†   (source)
  • It was a bigoted Sunni slur for Shia Muslims.†   (source)
  • Al-Anabar Province and, more specifically, the general area around Fallujah became known through the media as the Sunni Triangle.†   (source)
  • It began as a public housing area for the poor, and by the time of the war, it had become a refuge for Shiites, who were discriminated against by Saddam's Sunni-dominated government.†   (source)
  • They were radical Sunni Muslims with an allegiance to Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader who needs no introduction—and whom SEALs hunted down and gave a fitting sendoff in 2011.†   (source)
  • Farther north, the areas are dominated by Kurds, who, though mostly Sunni, have separate traditions and often don't think of themselves as being part of Iraq.†   (source)
  • It would be dominated by a massive Sunni state that would stretch from Baghdad to the Arabian Peninsula and across the Levant and North Africa.†   (source)
  • Eventually, he told her he had been raised in a small, poor village in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq, though he pointedly did not say the village's name.†   (source)
  • "And from the Saudi perspective," continued Natalie, "a Sunni caliphate is far preferable to a Shiite Crescent that stretches from Iran to Lebanon."†   (source)
  • He was not a raving lunatic; he was a man of reason, a Sunni nationalist, quite possibly a former spy.†   (source)
  • One had ferried a woman from central Raqqa; the other had brought four men from the Sunni Triangle of Iraq.†   (source)
  • As long as the regime, the Iranians, Hezbollah, and the Sunni jihadists were all killing each other, the Office was content to sit in the orchestra section and enjoy the show.†   (source)
  • When the Americans disbanded the Iraqi army and removed all Baath Party members from their government posts, he was put on the streets along with thousands of other mainly Sunni Iraqi men.†   (source)
  • They were no wild-eyed jihadis, the instructors; they were exclusively Iraqi, all former soldiers and battle-hardened veterans of the Sunni insurgency.†   (source)
  • He prayed at the East London Mosque and joined the London chapter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Sunni Islamic organization that supported the resurrection of the caliphate long before anyone had heard of a group called ISIS.†   (source)
  • The wise man knows horses are good—that there is a profit to be made from all; and for myself—but that I am a good Sunni and hate the men of Tirah—I could believe the same of all the Faiths.†   (source)
  • Everyone's heard it, like insurgent, Sunni, ayatollah, or Taiwan.   (source)
  • And when we found him, we scarcely knew who he was - al Qaeda or Taliban, Shiite or Sunni, Iraqi or foreign, a freedom fighter for Saddam or an insurgent fighting for some kind of a different god from our own, a god who somehow sanctioned murder of innocent civilians, a god who'd effectively booted the Ten Commandments over the touchline and out of play.   (source)
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