anti-Shia

It is hard to imagine a more anti-Shia and anti-Iranian group than the Sunni sheikhs of the Anbar Awakening, but after the Basra operation a group of four of them all took turns to say variations of We are pleased with Maliki.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

It is hard to imagine a more anti-Shia and anti-Iranian group than the Sunni sheikhs of the Anbar Awakening, but after the Basra operation a group of four of them all took turns to say variations of We are pleased with Maliki.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

But Saudi Arabia -- ground zero for anti-Shia propaganda and material support, and by far Iran's most belligerent regional neighbor in a post-Saddam world -- represents a political minority in the wider Mideast, where most Muslims, when asked their religion, will still reply "Muslim," instead of the name of their sect.

Sharmine Narwani: Three Mideast Stink Bombs Sharmine Narwani 2011

But Saudi Arabia -- ground zero for anti-Shia propaganda and material support, and by far Iran's most belligerent regional neighbor in a post-Saddam world -- represents a political minority in the wider Mideast, where most Muslims, when asked their religion, will still reply "Muslim," instead of the name of their sect.

Sharmine Narwani: Three Mideast Stink Bombs Sharmine Narwani 2011

Years of anti-Shia propaganda have led to rising sectarian violence and tension, with Shia groups targeted in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and elsewhere.

Sharmine Narwani: Three Mideast Stink Bombs Sharmine Narwani 2011

Years of anti-Shia propaganda have led to rising sectarian violence and tension, with Shia groups targeted in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and elsewhere.

Sharmine Narwani: Three Mideast Stink Bombs Sharmine Narwani 2011

The explicitly anti-Shia Sipah-e-Sahaba Soldiers of the Prophet's Companions, born in southern Punjab in 1985, took up the cause of Sunni peasants in a region dominated by large Shia landowners.

The Plight of Pakistan's Shia Sadanand Dhume 2011

It is hard to imagine a more anti-Shia and anti-Iranian group than the Sunni sheikhs of the Anbar Awakening, but after the Basra operation a group of four of them all took turns to say variations of We are pleased with Maliki.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

But Saudi Arabia -- ground zero for anti-Shia propaganda and material support, and by far Iran's most belligerent regional neighbor in a post-Saddam world -- represents a political minority in the wider Mideast, where most Muslims, when asked their religion, will still reply "Muslim," instead of the name of their sect.

Sharmine Narwani: Three Mideast Stink Bombs Sharmine Narwani 2011

Years of anti-Shia propaganda have led to rising sectarian violence and tension, with Shia groups targeted in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and elsewhere.

Sharmine Narwani: Three Mideast Stink Bombs Sharmine Narwani 2011