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  • Our own founder, Jinnah, was a Shia, and Benazir Bhutto's mother was also a Shia from Iran.   (source)
    Shia = second most populous denomination of Islam (15-20%)
  • They became known as Shias, shortened from Shia-t-Ali, the Party of Ali.   (source)
  • They became known as Shias, shortened from Shia-t-Ali, the Party of Ali.   (source)
    shias = people of the second most populous denomination of Islam (15-20%)
  • One of my father's friends is a Shia and he cries whenever he talks about Hussein's death at Karbala.   (source)
    Shia = second most populous denomination of Islam (15-20%)
  • 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)
    shias = people of the second most populous denomination of Islam (15-20%)
  • Every year Shias commemorate the killing of the grandson of the Prophet, PBUH, Hussein Ibn Ali at the battle of Karbala in the year 680 with a memorial day called Muharram.   (source)
  • In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that.   (source)
    Shi'a = second most populous denomination of Islam (15-20%)
    unconventional spelling: In the West, this is more commonly spelled Shia.
  • After the war started, even more Shiites moved into the area.†   (source)
  • An extremely poor area even by Iraqi standards, Sadr City was packed with radical Shiites.†   (source)
  • Some background on Islam in Iraq: There were two main groups of Muslims in Iraq, Sunnis and Shiites.†   (source)
  • Pakistan's supreme Shia cleric handed Mortenson an envelope.†   (source)
  • It was a bigoted Sunni slur for Shia Muslims.†   (source)
  • It was a book of didactic pronouncements from Imam Ali, the founder of the Shiite sect.†   (source)
  • He made contributions to various Shiite groups.†   (source)
  • No Shia will dare to interfere with our work now, Inshallah.†   (source)
  • It was that of Imam Reza, the Shiite founder.†   (source)
  • The Imam Bara Mosque, like much of Shia Pakistan, showed little of its face to the outside world.†   (source)
  • This was still the major bone of contention between the Sunis and the Shiites.†   (source)
  • But there are a lot of Ismaelis and some Shia, too.†   (source)
  • ""From a conservative Shia Muslim, that was an incredible tribute," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • Moody's family was composed of Shiite Moslems, of which the western world knew little.†   (source)
  • Or are we allies, common enemies of the Shiite majority?†   (source)
  • Now he was praying like a Sunni at the heart of Shiite Pakistan.†   (source)
  • I was suddenly aware of Moody's hand clasping mine, a minor violation of Shiite custom.†   (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)
  • The people here were mostly Shiites, whereas my earlier battles in Iraq had been primarily with Sunnis.†   (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)
  • While Shiites were the majority, during Sad-dam's time they were discriminated against and not allowed to hold important offices.†   (source)
  • Two million Shiites lived there.†   (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)
  • "And from the Saudi perspective," continued Natalie, "a Sunni caliphate is far preferable to a Shiite Crescent that stretches from Iran to Lebanon."†   (source)
  • "And the people there are…""Shia, like in Iran," Mortenson said, watching the three idle pens come alive.†   (source)
  • To my amazement, my own husband spouted the Shiite party line, contending that women have more rights than anyone else in Iran.†   (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)
  • The moment we entered the house we heard loud American music and saw the improbable sight of Shiite Moslems dancing to rock-and-roll.†   (source)
  • He was tall and thin, with the trimmed beard of the Shia scholar who had outshone most of his peers at madrassa in Najaf, Iraq.†   (source)
  • Centuries ago he disappeared, and Shiites believe that on the final day of judgment he will reappear along with Jesus.†   (source)
  • It was flown in a PIA 737 to Skardu, and delivered to the foremost Shia clerics in northern Pakistan for a public reading.†   (source)
  • The radio assured Moody that it was, that the holy Shiite armies would wreak swift and sure vengeance upon the American puppets.†   (source)
  • He told Mortenson he had arranged a meeting for him with Syed Abbas Risvi, the religious leader of northern Pakistan's Shia Muslims.†   (source)
  • These were Shiite Moslems, still glorying in the success of the revolution, clad in the self-righteous robes of fanaticism.†   (source)
  • More upsetting to Mortenson was the fact that a powerful local politician he knew named Imran Nadim, pandering to his conservative Shia base, had publicly declared his support for Mubarek.†   (source)
  • "I was torn between trying quickly to learn how to pray like a Shia and making the most of my opportunity to study the ancient Buddhist woodcarvings on the walls," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • Half of the clan lived like Ameh Bozorg, oblivious to squalor, contemptuous of western customs and ideals, and clinging to their own zealous brand of the Ayatollah Khomeini's fanatical Shiite sect of Islam.†   (source)
  • While the Supreme Council had pondered Mortenson's case, they had dispatched spies to inquire into the affairs of the American working at the heart of Shia Pakistan, Parvi says.†   (source)
  • Then came a five-minute segment of Lebanese news because the Shiite Moslems in Lebanon are a strong and violent faction backed by Iran, loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini and a three-minute wrap-up of world news, which meant some negative report about America.†   (source)
  • On such a holy day, a good Shiite is supposed to visit the imam's tomb, but since he was buried in the enemy country of Iraq, we had to settle for his sister's tomb in Rey, the former capital city of Iran, about an hour's drive south.†   (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)
  • Here you have this Islamic court in conservative Shia Pakistan offering protection for an American, at a time when America is holding Muslims without charges in Guantanamo, Cuba, for years, under our so-called system of justice.†   (source)
  • She converted to the tenets of Shiite Islam adopted the covered dress, even in the privacy of her home' (she was covered now), said her prayers at the appointed hour, venerated all the 'holy men', studied the Koran, and truly accepted her lot in life as being the will of Allah.†   (source)
  • And as we listened to the Shia children of Korphe, one of the world's most impoverished communities, talk about how their hopes and dreams for the future had grown exponentially since a big American arrived a decade ago to build them the first school their village had ever known, the general and I were done for.†   (source)
  • "Parvi also said that Sheikh Mohammed, a religious scholar and rival of the sher of Chakpo, had, along with his son, Mehdi Ali, petitioned for a CAI school to be built in his village of Hemasil and written a letter to the Supreme Council of Ayatollahs in Qom, asking Iran's leading clerics, the ultimate authority to the world's Shia, to rule on whether the fatwa was justified.†   (source)
  • His academic accomplishment was rare for a Balti, and he was known and respected throughout Skardu as a devout Shiite scholar.†   (source)
  • A few months earlier, Mortenson had read in the Islamabad papers about Pakistan's latest wave of Sunni-Shiite violence.†   (source)
  • But that spring, the spring of 2001, I was amazed by all their new construction right here in the heart of Shiite Baltistan.†   (source)
  • Mouzafer and the Korphe men were Shiite Muslims, along with Skardu residents Ghulam Parvi, and Makhmal the mason.†   (source)
  • The Balti had originally migrated southwest from Tibet, via Ladakh, more than six hundred years ago, and their Buddhism had been scoured away as they traveled over the rocky passes and replaced by a religion more attuned to the severity of their new landscape—Shiite Islam.†   (source)
  • It's a great ting in dis goundry to be vree vrom tispep-shia," sighed poor Yucker enviously, casting a stealthy glance at the pit of his ruined stomach.†   (source)
  • Like Ali, she was a Shi'a Muslim and an ethnic Hazara.   (source)
  • You come all the way from America for… a Shi'a?   (source)
    Shi'a = a person of the second most populous denomination of Islam (15-20%)
  • He wrinkled his nose when he said the word Shi'a, like it was some kind of disease.   (source)
    Shi'a = second most populous denomination of Islam (15-20%)
  • Abdul Ali Mazari, leader of the Hizb-e-Wahdat faction, known as Baba Mazari among his fellow Hazaras, with strong Shi'a ties to Iran.   (source)
  • When the bus passes the shrine to Imam Reza, the eighth Shi'a imam, Laila cranes her neck to get a better view of its glistening tiles, the minarets, the magnificent golden dome, all of it immaculately and lovingly preserved.   (source)
  • "That's the one thing Shi'a people do well," he said, picking up his papers, "passing themselves as martyrs."   (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)
  • For a lot of Hazaras, Iran represented a sanctuary of sorts—I guess because, like Hazaras, most Iranians were Shi'a Muslims.   (source)
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