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  • The Pakistan Taliban also has been active in Kurram, helping to fan a decades-old dispute in the region between Sunni and Shia Muslim residents.

    Pakistan Moves to Cut Off Taliban Haven Tom Wright 2011

  • The Pakistan Taliban also has been active in Kurram, helping to fan a decades-old dispute in the region between Sunni and Shia Muslim residents.

    Pakistan Moves to Cut Off Taliban Haven Tom Wright 2011

  • According to Fisk "The opposition is expecting at least 20,000 Saudis to gather in Riyadh and in the Shia Muslim provinces of the north-east of the country in six days, to demand an end to corruption and, if necessary, the overthrow of the House of Saud."

    Kelly Rigg: Preparing for the Next Oil Shock Kelly Rigg 2011

  • The Shia Muslim majority has been protesting for weeks against what they say is discrimination by the Sunni Muslim Al-Khalifa ruling family.

    Army intervenes in Egypt protests; White House backpedals from military intervention in Libya 2011

  • The Assad family, from the Shia Muslim minority Alawite sect, is likely to be nervous about appearing to be helped by its Shia-dominated ally to crush protesters drawn from the 75% Sunni population.

    Iran helping Syrian regime crack down on protesters, say diplomats 2011

  • Although Bahrain is a tiny island with a population of fewer than one million people, its large Shia Muslim population and its location between Sunni Muslim-dominated Saudi Arabia and Shia Muslim-led Iran has made unrest there a focal point of regional security concerns for both the U.S. and the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf, especially Saudi Arabia.

    Bahrain Grows More Divided Bill Spindle 2011

  • According to Fisk "The opposition is expecting at least 20,000 Saudis to gather in Riyadh and in the Shia Muslim provinces of the north-east of the country in six days, to demand an end to corruption and, if necessary, the overthrow of the House of Saud."

    Kelly Rigg: Preparing for the Next Oil Shock Kelly Rigg 2011

  • Successive governments have also felt that good relations with Iran's mullahs keeps India's large Shia Muslim population in good humor.

    Weaning India Off Iran Sadanand Dhume 2012

  • Khamenei is a Shia Muslim, as opposed to a Sunni Muslim, two sects of Islam who hate each other both despite and because of their extreme underlying similarity, sort of like Sean Hannity and Keith Olbermann.

    Ayatollah Khamenei: Dickipedia 2010

  • Likewise the Shia Muslim male who currently marries a bride for only 24 or 48 hours to have sex (and then quickly divorces her) in Kuwait or Iran is certainly not interested in marriage covenants, but is this practice and attitude representative of most Muslim's faith and concepts of marriage today?

    NOW YOU'RE SPEAKING MY WAY, REVIEWING the MESSAGE OF Gary Chapman to the Married World 2010

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