Sunni, Allawi, Kurdi, Shiite, Dursi , we are all brothers!

The strategy with respect to the Gulf s Sunni monarchies has also changed.

The mawlid was not the only celebration that was sponsored by the Fatimids.

Iraqi insurgency surged in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal.

They are not international in nature (one exception being the Muslim Brotherhood).

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Moreover, the Sunni Shia divide frequently leads to contradictory policies.

Then there is sectarianism, particularly the growing strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

Already, signs of spillover effects can be seen in clashes between Sunni and Alawite militias.

Islam The followers of Islam (Muslims) are to observe the Five Pillars of Islam.

Guard members were mainly, but not exclusively, Sunni Arabs rather than Shi'a Arabs, or Sunni Kurds.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Qatar which Middle East commentator Saeed Naqvi has called the most vulnerable Sunni Kingdoms attempt to divert popular discontent along sectarian, Shia Sunni lines.

The most worrisome underlying threat is the increase in fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

Some hadith are also called Hadith Qudsi (or Sacred Hadith).

Those are Serbs, Czechs, Slovaks, Italians, Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Austrians, Ukrainians, Ruthenians, Macedonians, Bosniaks, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Russians, Bulgarians, Poles, Romani, Rumanians, Turks, Vlachs and Albanians.

We are going to create an alliance of the Arab peoples, Sunni and Shi'ite in unison against us.

Anyone who did not belong to the main population group of Sunni Turkish speakers had a difficult time.

Within Islam, there has been conflict at various periods between Sunnis and Shias Shi'ites consider Sunnis to be damned, due to their refusal to accept the first Caliph as Ali and accept all following descendants of him as infallible and divinely guided.

The United States led military intervention resulted in the weakening of the Middle East s Sunni regimes, America s traditional allies, and the strengthening of America s principal foe in the region, the Islamic Republic.

Now the same Prince Bandar is trying to get arms to the Sunni rebels to oust Bashar.

Neighboring Lebanon, with its fierce Sunni Shia divide, is already being directly affected.

If Sunnis triumph there, they may become more assertive in countries that have large Shia populations.

The majority accepted the legitimacy of the three rulers prior to Ali, and became known as Sunnis.

Sunni Muslims also go by the name Ahl as Sunnah which means people of the tradition Muhammad .

Pakistan's fertility rate stands at 3.07, higher than its neighbors India (2.57) and Iran (1.73).

But one thing is clear the Sunni Islamists are decisively altering the region s politics.

A 2008 estimate found that 6 of the Belgian population, about 628,751, is Muslim (98 Sunni), while a 2011 estimate claims 1,000,000 inhabitants of Muslim background in the country.

Muslims constitute 2 5 , the majority of whom are Sunnis and live in urban areas.

As Iran throws its weight and billions of dollars behind the Alawites, and the Gulf States do likewise in support of the Sunnis, Syria is being torn apart.

Hezbollah has drawn Lebanon into the Syrian conflict, setting up a showdown between Shia and Sunni at home.

Adding to the trouble is strong sectarian tension between Shiites (majority) and Sunnis (minority, power holders).

Many Sunni religious leaders, including those inspired by Wahhabism and other ideologies have declared Shias to be heretics and or apostates.

The Muslim population is approximately 70 percent Shi'a and 30 percent Sunni differences traditionally have not been defined sharply.

But the whole community, all the different sects, including Shi'a and Sunni, would sit together and pray.

Adding to the trouble is strong sectarian tension between Shiites (majority) and Sunnis (minority) that several power brokers seek to magnify.

Positions of power in the country were mostly filled with Sunnis, a minority that made up only a fifth of the population.

Although the conflict between Iran and its Sunni rivals and the Syrian civil war forced it to loosen ties with Iran and Syria and move into the Sunni fold, in many respects this has been a comfortable shift.

The majority of Muslims are Sunni, roughly 4 are non denominational Muslims and a small number are Shia, and about 100,000 Ahmadi Muslims.

The ethnic makeup of Niger is as follow Hausa (53.0 ), Zarma Sonrai (21.2 ), Tuareg (10.4 ), Fula ( ) (9.9 ), Kanuri Manga (4.4 ), Tubu (0.4 ), Arab (0.3 ), Gourmantche (0.3 ), other (0.2 ).

Most Shi'ites considered pan Arab ideology as a Sunni project, since the majority of Arabs are Sunnis.

Iran s involvement reflects a different, much older struggle that between Sunni and Shia for control of the Middle East.

In the emerging struggle between the region s Shia and Sunni powers, the old Middle East conflict has become a sideshow.

If a Sunni controlled government replaces the current leadership, its decision to protect minorities rights would be particularly encouraging.

Of the roughly 4 million Muslims, most are Sunnis and Alevites from Turkey, but there are a small number of Shi'ites and other denominations.

Most of you probably know that Islam tends to be divided among those who are Sunni and Shia.