Use "sunni|sunnis" in a sentence

1. The Sunnis are predominantly in the south and southeast.

2. Sunnis are a large majority of the Afghan population.

3. Islam has two main sects: the Sunnis and the Shias.

4. Hola: Sunni Arabs from Persia Tribal: Urbanized Sunni Bahrainis of Bedouin ancestry, such as the Utoob, Dawasir etc

5. Kafr Nabl's inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.

6. The new defense minister is a Sunni Arab.

7. A suspected Sunni insurgent is arrested inside his home.

8. Government officials believe Sunni extremists are to blame.

9. The Sunni compose about 90 percent of present - day Islam.

10. Religion: Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) - 94 %; Coptic Christian and other - 6 %.

11. This is a fundamental difference between Sunni and Shita.

12. The inhabitants of Jazan are Arab and almost entirely Sunni Muslim.

13. But it finds some progress in Sunni insurgents fighting al - Qaeda.

14. It is generally accepted that Aurangzeb was a fanatic Sunni Mussalman

15. But a grim and retributive mood settled over predominantly Sunni areas.

16. A member of a nomadic, primarily Sunni Muslim people of Baluchistan

17. Sunni Muslims constitute the majority of the Arab League's residents.

18. Some towns in the province have a record of Shia - Sunni enmity.

19. Known for their fundamentalist brand of Islam, the Afghanis are divided into two groups, Sunnis and Shi'ites

20. Sunni Muslims recognize these first four, or Rashidun (the rightly guided), Caliphs

21. Baluchi definition, a member of a nomadic, primarily Sunni Muslim people of Baluchistan

22. In religion the Bashkirs are mainly Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi madhhab.

23. Hussein and his unreconciled supporters among Iraq's Sunni minority, there was an explosion of anger.

24. The mosque was badly damaged in a February 2006 bombing, presumably the work of Sunni militants.

25. He established numerous mosques and madrasah in order further the spread of Sunni beliefs.

26. The core of the insurgency is made up of Sunni Muslim militants who oppose the polls.

27. Shias alleged discrimination by the Pakistani government since 1948, claiming that Sunnis were given preference in business, official positions and the administration of justice.

28. For Sunnis this period, at least up to the middle of `Uthman’s caliphate, was a golden age when the Caliphs were consciously guided by …

29. Most Bosniaks are Sunni Muslim, although historically Sufism has also played a significant role among them

30. The governor of Beirut is Greek Orthodox according to tradition, while the mayor is Sunni Muslim.

31. The primary religion practiced by the Arabized Africans is Sunni Islam, the largest branch of Islam.

32. Sunni Muslim insurgents are being blamed for the blasts that killed at least 88 people.

33. The 000 lives killed heinously, and his mis-reading of Islam confound Shia and Sunni.

34. Sunni militant groups such as Lashkar-e Jhangvi, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, have conducted numerous attacks targeting civilians.

35. The primary religion practiced by the Arabized Africans is Sunni Islam, the largest branch of Islam.

36. Iran's rising influence in Iraq has already deepened the Shia-Sunni fissures in the Arab world.

37. The ministry supports Sunni Islam and has commissions authorized to give Fatwā judgements on Islamic issues.

38. The attack happened yesterday in Mahmoudiya, the Sunni insurgent stronghold about 20 miles south of Baghdad.

39. On Anthropomorphist trends within ninth-century Sunni movements, see also Williams, "Aspects of the Creed," 450ft

40. THE Alawite SECT -- Sunnis Muslims make up 74 percent of Syria’s 22 million population, Alawites 12 percent, Christians 10 percent and Druze 3 percent

41. Algeria is 99 percent Sunni Muslim, while Christians and other religious minorities make up the remaining 1 percent

42. Aurangzeb was known for aggressively expanding the empire's frontiers and for his militant enforcement of orthodox Sunni Islam.

43. He has begun tentatively tackling the lethal ShiaH militias, now as much a scourge as the Sunni insurgents.

44. ‘The primary difference between the two groups is that Sunni Muslims recognize a Caliph, who maintains military and political authority in Muslim societies.’ ‘Ali, who was the fourth Caliph of Sunni Islam and the first Shia imam, disagreed with Umar's decision at the time, as …

45. In 1305, for example, following a clerical fatwa, Sunni Mamluks wiped out the Alawite community of the Kisrawan (modern Lebanon)

46. A Sunni Muslim group, Jundollah (God's soldiers), claimed responsibility for that blast and Iran said the group operated from Pakistan.

47. AQAP is taking advantage of the situation and promoting a sectarian Shiite-Sunni (that is, Zaydi-Shafi) divide.

48. The involvement of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sunnis and Shi'ats, rang a special bell in Abul Maali Fayek's head as it seems that what he was afraid of has happened:

49. Inspired by the regional Arab Spring, Bahrain's Shia majority started large protests against its Sunni rulers in early 2011.

50. Carnatic, at its start, is a Sunni Tamil indian sultanate located in the Coromandel region, India subcontinent of the Asia continent

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52. The Bashkirs are a Sunni Muslim ethnic group, the majority of which lives in a constituent republic of the Russian Federation, Bashkortostan

53. 26 He clings to power largely because his Sunni-dominated army is afraid of the revenge that would befall it if he fell.

54. Government ministers accused agents provocateurs linked to Sunni Muslim militants of deliberately panicking the huge crowd of Shia Muslim pilgrims into a stampede.

55. One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war, and we wrestle, and of course Sunni beats me because she's the best.

56. Finally, the court decided to release Abul after sentencing him to three months, which he had already served, for insulting the Sunni sect.

57. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanize 2007, January 17, “Michael Slackman”, in Hangings Fuel Sectarian Split Across Mideast‎[1]: And while political analysts and government officials in the region say the spreading Sunni disillusionment with Shiites and their backers in Iran will benefit Sunni-led governments and the United States, they and

58. The Ayatollahs dream of conquering Mecca from the hands of the Sunni Saudis so as to return the rule of the House of Ali

59. The Baluchis of Afghanistan live in the pastoral lands of the south-west and south in Hilmand and Faryab Provinces and practise Sunni Islam

60. It is a strict orthodox form and a Branch of sunni Islam, with fundamentalist views, believing in a strict literal interpretation of the Quran

61. According to sections of Indian media, the Sunni group Jaish ul-Adl is responsible for the kidnapping of Jadhav from the Iran–Pakistan border.

62. Religion of Bahrain The population is predominately Muslim and includes both the Sunni and the Shiʿi sects, with the latter in the majority

63. The Baathists’ cooperation has helped the insurgents take over wide swaths of the country, but the two groups are ideologically opposed: the Sunni extremists are …

64. Sunni aqeeday ke mutabiq Qurani ahkamat purane Arab dastoor ko rad nahin karte Balkeh unhain sirf behtar banate hain takeh auraton ko bhi wirasat mein

65. Baathist officials were, however, targeted during an armed insurrection by Sunni Islamist groups in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which culminated in a …

66. The decrease in violence resulting from the ceasefire by the Mahdi Army and the Sunni insurgent allegiance against Al-Qaida holds significant political potential as well.

67. The regime regards all three predominantly Sunni Muslim towns as hostile and continues to claim that foreign-backed extremists inside them are driving ever-escalating violence.

68. Abkhas: 1 n Circassian people living east of the Black Sea Synonyms: Abkhaz Example of: Circassian a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia n a member of the Circassian people who live to the east of the Black Sea Synonyms: Abkhasian , Abkhaz , Abkhazian Type of: Circassian a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in

69. With its various Branches, it is the largest Sunni movement in the Arab world, and an affiliate is often the largest opposition party in many Arab nations

70. The ruling family and many of the wealthier and more influential Bahrainis are Sunni, and this difference has been an underlying cause of political and social tension.

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72. 24 There is no doubt that the real goal of the commission — its chief is a candidate on the slate led by former President George W. Bush's old pal, Ahmed Chalabi — was to disenfranchise Sunnis.

73. Although the Hijazis, who are Sunnis but not Wahhabis, are not viewed as heretics, they are marginalized because the Islam they practice has Sufi leanings--and tolerant Sufiism is anathema to the austerely dogmatic Wahhabis.

74. The dominant form of Sunni Islam among Pakistan's non-Pashtun population is the Barelvi movement(Sentencedict.com), which accommodates many of the rites and practices of Sufism.

75. The Iraqi Bathist regime was a secular government, and Saddam urged Arab nationalism over religious fundamentalism—he wanted to foster a homogenous society of Shia, Sunni and Kurds

76. Baathist leadership in IS, most recently noted in Christoph Reuter’s riveting articlein Spiegel International, reinforces the political nature of IS and its Sunni Arab, Iraqi nationalist roots.

77. 15 rows  · Abu Bakr and the three Caliphs following him are regarded as the Rashidun Caliphs (or rightly-guided Caliphs) by the adherents of Sunni Islam

78. This reminds us how al-Qaida was always only one of scores of radical groups that together constituted the dynamic, varied and evolving phenomenon of Sunni Muslim violent extremism.

79. ‘Today, Islam is the second largest religion, after Russian Orthodoxy, with at least 19 million practitioners, and among ethnic minorities most Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Chechens, and Avars, are Sunni Muslim.’

80. Ultimately, all this will likely produce a fragmentation of the country and a proxy war between Saudi-supported Sunni and Iranian-supported Shia, with the Kurds eventually going their own way.