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What does Sunni mean?
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Simple sentences
Although Iran is nowadays known for being a stronghold of Shia Islam, most Persian Muslims were Sunni until the XVth century.
In this country, the majority of the population practices Sunni Islam.
In this country, the majority of the population professes Sunni Islam.
In this country, the majority of the population espouses Sunni Islam.
In this country, most of the inhabitants are Sunni Muslims.
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Shiite or Sunni? Wow.
Look, they don't care if they cut American hair, Shiite hair, Sunni hair.
Will you pay Sunni's speeding fine?
If Sunni doesn't friggin' step on it, I'll shove Sunni's beaded seat cover up Sunni's arse!
Officials say they see evidence that Sunni and Shiite extremists might be joining forces.
Ass-deep in the Sunni triangle.
Shia or Sunni Muslim?
Pacifist Sunni poets, preferably.
I am a Sunni Iraqi, I am no friend of Iran. But this is crazy what you're doing.
Iraqi President al-Sadr was on hand to commemorate the occasion and praised Sunni, Shiah, Kurd and Turkoman.
Analysts say a broader strategy is at work one that began with the offensive in the Sunni Triangle city of Samarra earlier this month.
Sunni.
Shiite or Sunni?
So, she converted so they could get married, but eventually she decided she wanted to be more of a traditional muslim -- a sunni.
And so the hospital will treat all youngsters without regard to whether they are Sunni, or Chiite.
But if we, Sunni, and Chiite, work together, and not blame each others, then, we will finally achieve the self respect that will allow our people to move forward.
We call ourselves, Sunni or Chiite, and in many parts of the world, Muslims are killing each other, just over these different labels.
I ask you to think, who of the holy prophets call themselves Sunni or Chiite?
Hey, Sunni!
The speaker is a Sunni.
We aren't including a Sunni position?
Goddamned Sunni.
Some Shias think they go to Heaven if they kill a Sunni.
Haven't the Sunni and Shia always fought each other?
I've got many Sunni friends.
Sunni's doing a little recon for his terrorist cell.
It's a Sunni district.
Not to mention financing Baathist Sunni groups, including the one this man belongs to. The man these people are demanding is released from Bellmarsh.
Sword of Islam is a Sunni militant group responsible for a string of bombings in the Basra area.
I am Jordanian sunni.
News and current affairs
Pilihan terbaik adalah bekerja sama lebih erat dengan tentara Kurdi dan memilih warga dari suku Sunni di Irak dan Suriah.
The US invasion and occupation of Iraq, for example, created a major opening for Al Qaeda, whose affiliates now represent the Sunni struggle against the Shia-dominated government.
Such a possibility seems even more far-fetched as long as the Iranian nuclear crisis remains unresolved and the Syrian crisis continues to widen the region's Shia-Sunni divide (reflected in increased tension between Turkey and Iran).
With Iraq probably becoming the first Arab country to be ruled by Shiites, and hence integrated into an expanding Shiite Iranian empire, America's Sunni allies in the region now view the US as unreliable.
One key factor is that, for the first time since the United States and Britain invaded Iraq, Arab Sunni leaders are backing a US military plan for that country.
Of course, America has been encouraging Sunni leaders in this belief.
The US has achieved relative successes in the province through alliances with Sunni tribes.
But to keep them there in the long term, the Iraqi government will need to amend the constitution in a way that appeases the Sunni community.
Reassuring Iraq's Sunnis that they have a place in the new Iraq will also reassure neighboring Sunni governments, which have mostly turned a blind eye to the support for the insurgency that has come from their lands.
And in Iraq, Sunni Muslims feel under siege from the country's majority and now ruling Shia.
On January 10, while Qadri was planning his march, two suicide bombers sent by the extremist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a banned Sunni group, attacked the Shia Hazara community in Quetta, killing almost a hundred people.
Despite a disproportionate response by Israel, Hezbollah was able to stand its ground, gaining the admiration of the Arab masses, whether Sunni or Shia.
The most serious unintended consequence of the war is the emergence of a powerful Shia challenge to the West's Sunni allies in the Middle East.
Now Bush will increase the number of American troops in Baghdad and Anbar Province and try to stabilize both the rising sectarian civil war and the Sunni insurgency.
But, in just the last few weeks, parts of the Sunni north have erupted in armed defiance of Hezbollah and the government that it dominates, and are openly supporting the Syrian rebels.
In a sense, these Sunni groups are creating an armed enclave in northern Lebanon to counterbalance the armed Shia enclaves in Beirut, the south, and the Bekaa region.
Of course, one can say that the Islamic State's dream of restoring a Sunni caliphate is as anachronistic as Putin's neo-imperial ambition.
The Islamic world is riven by disputes between Arab and non-Arab, Sunni and Shia, and Salafi extremists and theological moderates.
No one can predict the direction in which Egypt's Sunni Islamist president and parliamentary majority will lead the country.
But one thing is clear: the Sunni Islamists are decisively altering the region's politics.
On the rubble of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, the Americans helped create in Iraq the first Shia-dominated Arab state, which may well become subservient to Iran's regional ambitions - a calamity of historic dimensions for America's Sunni allies.