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 | | Sunni Islam has its name from its identification with the importance of the Sunna (the examples from the hadiths), which earlier than in Shi'i Islam was established as a central element in Islam, and central to understanding the full truth in the religion. | | | Sunni Islam revere Ali, but does not hold him up as the only true continuation of the tradition from Muhammad, and has no emphasis on him bringing on a divine light from the Prophet. | | | Sunni and Shi'i Islam share only three core doctrines, oneness of God, the belief in the revelations of Muhammad, and the belief in resurrection on the Day of Judgment. |
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| | Sunni Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Sunnis - Sunnis regard the first four caliphs (Abu Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman, and Ali) as Rightly Guided Caliphs, that is, Caliphs who followed the tradition of the Prophet in terms of their lifestyles and styles of governance. | | | Though most Sunnis acknowledge that 'Ali had the stronger claim in his dispute with Muawiyah, Sunni authorities usually refrain from questioning the sincerity of Muawiya's intentions and generally give him the benefit of the doubt. | | | According to Sunni Muslim tradition, though Caliphs that followed 'Ali were mostly legitimate and entitled to obedience, most departed from the standards laid down by the prophet. |
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| | Sunnis - Sunnis regard the first four caliphs (Abu Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman, and Ali) as Rightly Guided Caliphs, that is, Caliphs who followed the tradition of the Prophet in terms of their lifestyles and styles of governance. | | | The Hajj or Haj (Arabic ØÙ&;) is the Pilgrimage to Mecca (or, Makkah) and is the fifth of the Five Pillars of Islam in Sunni Islam and is one of the eleven Branches of Religion in Shia Islam. | | | Though most Sunnis acknowledge that 'Ali had the stronger claim in his dispute with Muawiyah, Sunni authorities usually refrain from questioning the sincerity of Muawiya's intentions and generally give him the benefit of the doubt. |
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| | The Sunni tradition also emphasises the importance of religion in the formation of public policy. | | | The minority group regard the Prophet's Son in law, Ali, and his descendants as divinely authorised to rule the Muslim community. | | | This emphasis has, according to Sunni-Muslim scholars, given rise to two interrelated processes: the supremacy of the Shari'a and the sovereignty of the Islamic community. |
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| | The Origins of the Sunni/Shia split in Islam |
| | Sunnis regard Ali as the fourth and last of the "rightly guided caliphs" (successors to Mohammed (pbuh) as leader of the Muslims) following on from Abu Bakr 632-634, Umar 634-644 and Uthman 644-656. | | | The Shia Imam has come to be imbued with Pope-like infallibility and the Shia religious hierarchy is not dissimilar in structure and religious power to that of the Catholic Church within Christianity. | | | If you are already familiar with standard Sunni beliefs, you will immediately notice the addition to the shahadah regarding Imam Ali (ra), cousin of the Prophet (pbuh), husband of his daughter Fatima, father of Hassan and Hussein and the second person ever to embrace Islam. |
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| | Iraqi Sunnis tend to regard themselves as descendants of and heirs to the golden age of Arab Islamic civilization, much of which took place under the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad from the 8th to 13th centuries. | | | Sunnis subscribe to a broad spectrum of ideologies and affiliations, many of which have little to do with religion. | | | Iraq's Sunni Arabs inhabit the valleys of the Euphrates above Baghdad, and of the Tigris between Baghdad and Mosul. |
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| | Branches of Islam, Sunni, Shiite, Sufi, Baha'ism, U.S.A. Black Muslims |
| | The followers of Abu, called "Sunni" because they accept the "sunnas", the oral traditions and interpretations of the Koran after Muhammad's death, called the "sunnas", and later the "Hadiths". | | | Hussein was torture and beheaded, and today the Shiites of Iran honor the memory of Hussein's death with an annual procession in which marches in a frenzied demonstration beat and whip themselves with chains and branches. | | | In 656, Ali and Fatima's son Hussein led a fight against the Sunnis. |
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| | What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter? |
| | The Sunni branch believes that the first four caliphs--Mohammed's successors--rightfully took his place as the leaders of Muslims. | | | Not "until the ascendancy of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1978" did they believe that they had once again begun to live under the authority of a legitimate religious figure. | | | In 1928, four years after the abolishment of the caliphate, the Egyptian schoolteacher Hasan al-Banna founded the first Islamic fundamentalist movement in the Sunni world, the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun). |
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| | Sunnis do not accept this doctrine, and consequently do not see the Imams as infallible, sinless, or as a source of absolute religious authority. | | | Not found in Sunni Islam, the ideas of martyrdom and survival through persecution have become a distinct part of Shiite religion, and are celebrated and remembered during the lunar months of Muharram and Safar. | | | According to the Sunnis "there is nothing in the Quran and the Tradition to support the Shii claim that the Imamate is one of the 'pillars' of religion." |
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| | Middle East Institute: Policy Brief |
| | Abu Hanifa Mosque is a Sunni place of worship in the Adhamiya district where shootouts have occurred between U.S. troops and Iraqis literally on the mosque’s doorsteps.38 Abu Hanifa has been the site of fiery anti-American sermons by Imams during Friday prayers. | | | The literature, particularly in English on Sunni Islamism in Iraq is thin, but see Basim al-‘Azimi, "The Muslim Brotherhood: Genesis and Development," in Faleh Abdul Jabar (ed.), Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues: State, Religion and Social Movements in Iraq, London: Saqi Publishers, 2002, pp.162-176. | | | In 1999, the regime launched al hamla al-imaniyah or Enhancement of Islamic Faith campaign that saw the restriction of drinking and gambling establishments, the narrowing of secular practices, the promotion of religious education, and the propagation of religious programming in the media. |
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| | Faith, Practice, and Law in Sunni and Shi'i Islam |
| | His partisans were those who believed that 'Ali was the rightful successor of the Prophet and that 'Ali had been chosen by the Prophet to succeed him in his role as the political and spiritual leader of the Muslims. | | | This was in contrast to the belief of the Sunnis, who did not believe the Prophet had selected 'Ali to serve in that role. | | | Al-Maqasid of Imam al-Nawawi is a concise book of the essentials of Islam according to the Shafi'i madh'hab. |
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| | The Sunni tradition is known in Arabic as the Ahl-i Sunnah (the People of Sunnah), a term which according to the earliest classical sources emerged in the ninth century. | | | The word "Sunnah" means custom, method, path or example and refers particularl y to the example of the prophet Muhammad as found in the Hadith. | | | West Africa and Islam: a Study of Religious Development from the 8th to the 20th Century. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Some Sunni leaders rethink attitudes on elections |
| | "Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds will all be treated as Iraqi nationals first and foremost, and we will respect their ethnic or religious identity," says Ibrahim al-Jaafari. | | | In Anbar province, a Sunni area west of Baghdad, only 2% of eligible voters came to the polls. | | | By contrast, most Shiites united behind an alliance backed by the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. |
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| | Aljazeera.Net - The reshaping of Sunni politics in Iraq |
| | The attention given to the desires of the Shia religious establishment and the provisions made for Kurdish autonomy are but two striking examples. | | | Instead, known faces from the exiled community were often chosen over those who enjoyed a real popular mandate. | | | And how will already evident dynamics of unrest manifest themselves in the future? |
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| | MSN Encarta - Sunni Islam |
| | Sunni Islam, one of the two main branches of Islam. | | | Sunni Muslims constitute the vast majority in the world Islamic community... | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | ABCNEWS.com : Iraq: Poll Shows Shiite-Sunni Differences |
| | This suggests that many of them are Shiites who declined to specify their doctrine — sensible given their years of repression under Saddam. | | | Another question about political structures asked for a preference among three choices: democracy, a single strong leader for life, or an Islamic state. | | | And to see the country's future, look again. |
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| | But Najaf and Karbala are relatively quiet and the Badr Corps militia of the Shiites can hope to provide a sort of thuggish security in those two religious shrine cities. | | | The idea of the ayatollahs helping radical Salafi Abu Musab Zarqawi to blow up fellow Shiites was so absurd that the US dropped the whole thing for a while. | | | Meanwhile, for more on the implications of the building Shiite/Kurdish split, see Luke Baker reporting from Baghdad. |
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| | Belmont Club |
| | Military commanders had hoped to take time in the next few days to clear out insurgents thought to be congregating in Karma, north of Falluja, and Amariya, to the south. | | | Shortly before the Fallujah operation commenced, an earlier post quoted a US source as anticipating these kinds of diversionary attacks. | | | During Alawi's Rose Garden press conference he spoke of meeting with the tribes in Fallujah. |
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| | After vote, Sunni bitterness stirs csmonitor.com |
| | "The oriental [Eastern] man, when he loses his patience, maybe he will make his son a bomb, and send him to America," says a hard-line Sunni sheikh, who runs a refugee center in Baghdad and asked not to be named. | | | TENT DISSENT: More than 900 Iraqi Sunni refugees from Fallujah live in tents near the Al-Mustafa Mosque in Baghdad. | | | I will support a faithful and patriotic person; the man who has no relations to foreign intelligence in the past, like America and Iran." |
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| | Sunnis now want to join Iraq politics csmonitor.com |
| | Also present were leaders from cities in the "Sunni Triangle," including Mosul, Haditha, and Salam Pak, which is bubbling with insurgent activity. | | | Hamoudi says those efforts were renewed after the top Shiite religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, instructed them to do so. | | | Participants included members of the Muslim Scholars Association, a group of Sunni religious leaders, among them some of the most extreme figures who have influence with the insurgency. |
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| | Iraqis Fearing a Sunni Boycott of the Election - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council |
| | Such a delay seems highly unlikely, given the insistence of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the country's most powerful Shiite leader, that the elections be held no later than Jan. 31. | | | At a recent meeting in Baghdad, a tribal leader from Falluja, a town still under insurgent control, gave a grim assessment of the coming elections. | | | Even if they have not begun campaigning in the Sunni Triangle, the area west of Baghdad that has been a hotbed of the insurgency, these candidates say they have begun meeting with tribal leaders to persuade them to support their candidacies. |
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| | SHIITES AND SHIAISM, Shi'aism, Shia, Shias, Shî'ah, sheee, shi'ites, Shi'it, Shi'at, Shiaa, Ashura, Muharram, ... |
| | However, most of the openly declared SHIA beliefs revolve around The Concept of Imamah, the superiority of Ali (May Allah be pleased with him), and the so-called love of the Prophet's family members. | | | However, the brutal fact remains that under the pretense of Ali's Superiority and the so-called love of the Prophet's family members, Shias have literally evolved an entirely new religion, grossly distorted the teachings of the Holy Qur'ân, and completely rejected the sanctity and authenticity of the Hadeeth. | | | As a result, the intense love that Sunni Muslims carry for the Prophet's family members combined with the magnanimous personality of Ali has led some Sunnis to accept Shia's as part of the Muslim UMMAH. |
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| | That means bloody raids by one tribe's warriors against each others populations, as well as attacks on the tribal leaders (both religious and civil.) Dozens of Sunni and Shia religious leaders have been assassinated in the past year, and the surviving ones increasing travel with large security details. | | | In this part of the world, such tribal conflicts are sometimes fought to the point where the weaker tribe is exterminated, with survivors scattered to | | | That was not so bad when most of the troops they faced were American. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports US soldiers ransack Sunni mosque |
| | You don't see Muslims attacking the holy places of other people," Abu Hassan, a worshipper at the mosque, said. | | | During Thursday's raid US troops arrested 34 people, including several leading members of the shura, before a meeting of the body in Baghdad today. | | | The council includes representatives from all major Sunni religious groups, the Salafis, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jama'a al Islamia, as well as Kurds and Turkomans. |
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| | Sunni and Shiite Terrorist Networks: Competition or Collusion? - Lenny Ben-David |
| | The connection between the two organizations seems improbable considering the centuries of violent religious strife between al-Qaeda's radical Sunni Muslim doctrine and Hizballah's Shiite brand of Islam. | | | Radical Sunni and Shiite Islamic groups have their own geopolitical interests in bridging the great Islamic divide - particularly their antipathy for the United States and its allies. | | | The encounter also helped the Iranian-backed Hizballah gain a foothold inside Israel, despite the absence of a Shiite population in Israel or the territories. |
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| | Bloomberg.com: U.S. |
| | It wasn't clear if all Sunni leaders will reverse their call for the community to ``say no'' in the Oct. 15 vote. | | | The Sunni National Dialogue Council and the Council of Muslim Scholars, that claims to represent 3,000 mosques, have said they don't think the changes are enough, according to Agence France-Presse. | | | It was opposed by Sunnis, some secular Iraqis, and followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who said its provisions for federalism would divide Iraq. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Sunni leaders urge talks with insurgents to end 'stalemate' |
| | It's not clear whether the prodding from Sunni leaders will soften the government's position. | | | Video: Expats vote in the U.S. Audio: Komarow in Baghdad | | | Much of the violence has been concentrated in the northern city of Mosul and the Sunni Triangle, north and west of Baghdad. |
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| | BBC NEWS South Asia Sunni preacher killed in Karachi |
| | They ambushed the car of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai as he was being driven to the religious school where he preaches and three others were wounded. | | | It was not immediately clear if the motive for the attack had been sectarian but angry Sunni students from religious schools poured into the streets of this city of some 12 million. | | | Sunni Muslims, including his students, rioted at news of the death, attacking a police station and burning cars. |
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Sunni vote boycott may not hurt community |
| | There are no election posters anywhere in sight in Baghdad's Sunni stronghold of Azamiyah. | | | Sunnis would seem to be abandoning the future of the country to Shiites and Kurds. | | | BAGHDAD, Iraq --There are no election posters anywhere in sight in Baghdad's Sunni stronghold of Azamiyah. |
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| | Outside View: Understanding Sunni Boycott - Council on Foreign Relations |
| | Those who are not persuaded to follow the boycott are threatened by guerilla attacks and terrorism. | | | The consolidation of the Shiite electoral slate and their religious campaigning validates and enflames Sunni concern, and the more religious the Sunnis are, the more Shiite rule chafes. | | | Even if there is no explicit coordination between the Sunni clerics and the guerilla leaders, the boycott must be seen as the authoritative and religious approval of militant targeting of the election stations and officials. |
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| | Sunni and Shiite Sects |
| | The split stems from the early days of Islam and arguments over Mohammed's successors as caliph or leader. | | | There are two major Islamic sects: Sunni and Shiite. | | | Sunni comprise about 85 percent of all Muslims. |
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| | Aljazeera.Net - Confusion surrounds Iraq poll turnout |
| | By contrast, heavily fortified polling centres were deserted and streets empty as Iraqis in the Sunni Muslim city of Samarra stayed home on Sunday, too frightened or angry to vote in the election. | | | Iraqis are looking at these elections as an issue of dignity," he said. | | | It could also help deflect criticism from Sunni Muslim groups that boycotted the polls. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Main Sunni party pulls out of Iraqi election |
| | But Iraq's interim leaders know any decision to delay or skew the result could alienate leading figures among the Shia majority, including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. | | | He played down concerns that a Sunni boycott would deny the election legitimacy: "If some people decide not to participate then they cannot claim that the elections are illegitimate. | | | Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, blamed an alliance of Islamists and Sunni Arab followers of Saddam Hussein, but urged his followers not to retaliate. |
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| | The Next Voice You Hear |
| | I tossed and turned for an hour last night before falling asleep and then was awoken at 3 by a huge storm blowing in. | | | # posted by Sunni : 10:54 AM (0) comments | | | # posted by Sunni : 9:19 AM (0) comments |
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| | After Threats, Iraqi Electoral Board Resigns (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Witnesses said the blast killed 14 members of the family, including 10 women and children. | | | An Iraqi at the commission's office in Anbar said the members had resigned and had gone into hiding. | | | Meanwhile, in a village near the northern city of Mosul, where the U.S. military reported that it had mistakenly dropped a 500-pound bomb on the wrong target Saturday, residents said the Americans actually hit the correct house, killing an insurgent who they said had killed Iraqi security forces. |
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: You say Fallujah, I say Rambo! by Kathleen Parker |
| | What we know, and what we tell the rest of the world by our steadfastness, is that we will help even the unworthy; we will not back down from a just cause even when appalled and afraid; we mean what we say. | | | Still, a well-placed MOAB smack in the Sunni Triangle... | | | I suppose it would be considered lacking in nuance to nuke the Sunni Triangle. |
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| | Will the Sunni Come Out, Tomorrow? By David Sarno |
| | Early reports indicate that massive tidal waves from the quake may have claimed more than 3,000 lives in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia and displaced hundreds of thousands more. | | | A low Sunni turnout in the election would mean a disproportionately Shiite parliament—a result that could raise ethnic tensions to critical levels. | | | But the idea of tinkering with the election results is so sensitive that the NYT hides the identities of its story's main sources; officials are concerned that if Sunnis know they'll get seats no matter what, they might be even less inclined to go to the polls. |
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| | Fighting broke out in Baiji, Ramadi and parts of Baghdad, as well. | | | A Mosul oil installation was also attacked, and so was a US convoy near the city, and there appears to have been some fighting inside Mosul on Monday (a US general insisted that the situation there wasn't "desperate." OK.) In general the Sunni Arab regions of the country appear to be in virtual chaos. |
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| | Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East |
| | When Shi'ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani spoke out against the Fallujah offensive, it was too late. | | | Not to mention this would prove the point now stressed by the Sunni resistance: the Shi'ites are allied with American "fundamentalists". | | | The powerful Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) - founded after the fall of Saddam Hussein - is closely coordinating with the lumpenproletariat -based movement of Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. |
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| | Alleged al-Zarqawi tape berates Muslim clerics - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com |
| | On Tuesday, Sheik Ghalib Ali al-Zuhairi, was killed as he left a mosque after dawn prayers in the town of Muqdadiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad, police said. | | | This week, two Sunni clerics who were part of an influential Sunni group that openly called for a boycott of Jan. 30 national elections because of the U.S. offensive against Fallujah were assassinated by gunmen. | | | His assassination occurred a day after another prominent Sunni cleric was killed in the northern city of Mosul — Sheik Faidh Mohamed Amin al-Faidhi, who was the brother of the association’s spokesman. |
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| | The Fourth Rail |
| | The letter provides insight into the workings of al Qaeda, the perception of Zarqawi's campaign in Iraq and the status of the insurgency. | | | Much of the Sunni Triangle was described as a no-go zone and there was fear of a Shiite uprising. | | | Today the jihadis are forced to declare their Islamic republics further west - in backwater farming towns and border outposts such as Haditha, Qaim, and formerly Sada. |
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| | Aljazeera.Net - AMS critical of Iraq elections |
| | In an interview broadcast before polling stations closed on Sunday, Muhammad al-Kubaysi said low turnout in places such as Baghdad, Baquba and Samarra could have been prevented if there had been more time to create a genuine election. | | | Iraq's influential Association of Muslim Scholars has told Aljazeera that the low turnout by Sunni Arabs in elections was due to a lack of real choice and military occupation. | | | AMS: There was no real choice for those Iraqis who did vote |
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| | Tell Me a Secret |
| | I’ll tell you more about Abu Ayid in the end. | | | The one thing in common between all the people that were there is that almost all of them were Sunnis. | | | Interrogators told one of the prisoners during an interrogation session “you Sunnis are all terrorists” and during my interrogation, I heard a lot of racist remarks and questions. |
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Fractured Iraq sees a Sunni call to arms |
| | Sunni sheiks claim that Iran sent millions of people across the border posing as Iraqi Shi'ites to pad the vote totals of Shi'ite Islamic parties during the recent election. | | | Such calls for violence are being voiced against the backdrop of an alarming rise in tit-for-tat ethnic and sectarian killings. | | | BAGHDAD -- For the first time, Sunni Muslim sheiks are publicly exhorting followers to strike with force against ethnic Kurds and Shi'ites, an escalation in rhetoric that could exacerbate the communal violence that already is shaking Iraq's ethnic communities. |
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| | Sunni Triangle |
| | The "Sunni Triangle" should not be confused with the so-called "Triangle of Death," an area south of Baghdad inhabited by both Sunni and Shia Muslims which was the focus of major combat activity in November and December 2004. | | | The triangle's three corners are usually said to lie in or around Baghdad (on the east side of the triangle), Ramadi (on the west side) and Tikrit (on the north side); the area also contains the cities of Samarra and Fallujah. | | | It is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslims of the same ethnicity as former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and most of his Ba'ath Party. |
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