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CNN
March 13, 2010
"Government
rhetoric and actions created a threatening atmosphere for nearly all non-
Shia religious groups, most notably for Baha'is, as well as for
Sunni ...
New York Times
March 13, 2010
But his rivals appeared to perform respectably in the capital and in
Nineveh and other provinces with a
Sunni Arab majority and in rural
Shiite Arab regions ...
Christian Post
March 13, 2010
He was the grand sheikh of
Cairo's al-Azhar, the chief theological center of
Sunni Islam in the world. Tantawi is credited with promoting women's rights, ...
Reuters
March 12, 2010
... such as inter-faith relationships and land.
Christians make up about 10 percent of
Egypt's roughly 78 million people. The rest are mostly
Sunni Muslim.
NDTV.com
March 12, 2010
There is fresh tension after the release on
Thursday of a
Sunni cleric who was arrested on charges of inciting clashes. Political parties are now vying with ...
Washington Post
March 12, 2010
The
Shiites had won, the
Sunnis had lost. There was no getting around that. In the current political environment there was little hope of restoring ...
Foreign Policy
March 12, 2010
AOL News
March 12, 2010
Sunni Muslims held disproportionate power under their coreligionist Saddam, but
Shiite parties swept control after his fall. Many
Sunnis now complain of ...
BBC News
March 12, 2010
Funerals are being held amid tight security for a
Sunni Muslim cleric and four others killed in two attacks in the southern Pakistani city of
Karachi. ...
Asia Times Online
March 12, 2010
By Amineh Soghdi KERMAN,
Iran - The arrest of Iranian
Sunni Islamic militant Abdulmalik Rigi means the end of his Jundallah (
army of God) group, ...
AngolaPress
March 12, 2010
Tantawi,
Sunni Islam's top cleric who last year caused a national row when he banned the wearing of the full veil, died
Wednesday in
Saudi Arabia of a heart ...
Reuters India
March 12, 2010
Saeed Ahmed Jalalpuri, a senior
Sunni Muslim cleric, was ambushed by three
gunmen riding on a motor-
bike as he was travelling in a car with his three ...
BusinessWeek
March 12, 2010
Allawi's Iraqiya bloc was leading in largely
Sunni Muslim Diyala and Salahdin. The
Kurdistan Alliance in the Kurdish province of Erbil. ...
TODAYonline
March 11, 2010
Singapore - Singapore yesterday offered its condolences following the death of
Sunni Islam's top cleric, Mr Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, 81, ...
Washington Post
March 11, 2010
A
Sunni Arab and a former officer in
Saddam Hussein's special forces, Ali fled the capital months before the parliamentary vote in the face of apparent ...
Press Trust of India
March 11, 2010
Lucknow, Mar 11 (PTI) Union Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal today asked UP Chief Minister Mayawati to order authorities to release a prominent
Sunni cleric ...
Los Angeles Times
March 11, 2010
Los Angeles Times (blog)
March 10, 2010
Voice of America
March 10, 2010
Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi was the head of
Sunni Islam's most prominent seminary, the
Cairo-based Al-Azhar institute. The 81-year-old cleric had been in ...
Brattleboro Reformer
March 10, 2010
Africasia
March 10, 2010
Ennahar
March 10, 2010
CNN International
March 10, 2010
TheNewsTribune.com
March 10, 2010
Washington Post
March 10, 2010
Al-Azhar, one of the most prominent seats of
Sunni Islamic learning in the Muslim world, has schools, universities and other educational
institutions across ...
Christian Science Monitor
March 10, 2010
While preliminary
Iraq election results aren't due out until
Wednesday, turnout in
Sunni provinces was as high as 75 percent, say news reports. ...
NPR
March 9, 2010
Washington Post
March 9, 2010
...
US officials hailed as a historic milestone -- and inflame supporters of a coalition that appears to have done well in secular and
Sunni communities. ...
BusinessWeek
March 9, 2010
Allawi's
Iraqiya, which campaigned for a non-sectarian Iraq, was winning in four mainly
Sunni Muslim provinces in the center and north, Sumaria and the Iraq ...
Arab News
March 9, 2010
Political tension that had surrounded the election campaign and the controversy over banning key Sunni candidates from running could still be felt, ...
allvoices
March 9, 2010
In a surprise move immediately following the Iraqi elections,
Tareq al-Hashemi, the
Sunni vice-president, told Arab media on
Tuesday ...
The Sun Daily
March 9, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle
March 9, 2010
With both
Shiite and
Sunni factions taking part, the significance of the election can't be diminished.
Iraq's security forces passed a major test, ...
KGMI
March 9, 2010
Turnout in
Iraq's parliamentary election was 62 percent, higher than in last year's provincial ballot, despite attempts by
Sunni Islamist Insurgents. ...
Los Angeles Times
March 9, 2010
Participation is nearly 75% in
Sunni-dominated Salahuddin province. Turnout in
Baghdad is lower, possibly dampened by a morning bombardment by
militants. ...
BBC News
March 9, 2010
Reuters
March 8, 2010
Baghdad (Reuters) - Turnout in
Iraq's parliamentary election was 62 percent, higher than in last year's provincial ballot, despite attempts by
Sunni ...
Atlantic Online (blog)
March 8, 2010
Sunni Arab radicalism would likely be tamped down. For Washington, it would be the best of all possible worlds-- a pro-American
Iraqi government headed by a ...
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
March 8, 2010
The droves of
Sunni Arab residents casting ballots in towns like
Falluja -- the name itself synonymous with the cradle of the insurgency, where relatively ...
Atlantic Online (blog)
March 8, 2010
Previous elections intensified sectarian violence; many
Sunni candidates were barred from running; internal tensions within
Kurdistan are running high and ...
