Shias in a sentence

Shias are primarily Zaidi and also have significant minorities of Twelver citation and Ismaili Shias.

Unfortunately, this sectarian divide is now quite visible in many parts of Pakistan, where the Shias and Sunnis feel threatened by each other.

As powerful a representative as Hezbollah remains for Lebanon’s Shias, its domestic political rivals are always looking for an opportunity to exploit claims that the group brings nothing but trouble to the country as a whole.

Sunnis and Shias: What's the story?

The organisation does not manufacture the drug for the Muslims themselves, but for the “enemies of Islam” – the Gulf states, especially Saudi Arabia, where the Sunni regime is a political and religious rival to the Shias represented by Hezbollah and Iran.

Al-Mahdi is a figure of great importance for Twelver Shias who believe he is the descendant of Prophet Muhammad himself.

Parallel with SSP, LeJ was involved in the killing of thousands of Shias across Pakistan.

Defending the exclusion of Shias and Ahmadiyyas from Pakistan, MP Subramaniam Swamy said a persecuted Shia would rather go to Iran than come to India.

Each year, millions of Shias visit Karbala, where the holy shrine of Imam Hussein (AS) is located, to perform mourning rites.

And as has become evident in the General Buhari-led administration, there is presently an effective propaganda against the Shias in Nigeria.

They would often launch targeted attacks against Shias, forcing many of them to abandon their homes.

US policy makers have proposed that Bosnian-style ethnic separation is also suited for Iraq’s ethnic battling among Sunnis, Kurds and Shias.

You know, now you have the Islamic State affiliate and Shias who go to their mosque at Friday prayers.

Both Sunnis and Shias were welcome at court and members of both sects gained high office.

Gaining civilian support To secure the loyalty of the Shia population, Saddam allowed more Shias into the Ba'ath Party and the government, and improved Shia living standards, which had been lower than those of the Iraqi Sunnis.

Many Shias travel to the mosque from far away places to commemorate.

Shi'a opinions The negative view of the Umayyads by Shias is briefly expressed in the Shi'a book "Sulh al-Hasan".

Shias, Fatemids and Dawoodi Bohras believe that after the battle of Karbala (680 AD), in Iraq, the Umayyad caliph Yezid brought Imam Husain's head to Damascus, where it was first kept in the courtyard of Yezid Mahal, now part of Umayyad Mosque complex.

Their objectives were to halt any potential foreign assistance to the Shias and to the Kurdish opponents of the regime and to end Iranian domination of the area.

These members were kept as prisoners on the outskirts of the city (near Bab al-Saghir ), where the other heads were kept at the same location, now called "Raous-us-sohda-e-karbala", visited by all Shias.