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- Sunnis generally reject Iranian patriarch Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's brand of Islamic fundamentalism. ( Quelle: AP 1988 )
- All three major Iraqi groups, Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, must be represented in a new democratic government. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- Khalili said about 30 percent of Afghans are Shiites, but most estimates put the number of Shiites at about 15 percent, with Sunnis making up about 80 percent of the population. ( Quelle: AP 1989 )
- Not all Shiites are radicals or revolutionaries, and some Sunnis, like the assassins of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, are as ready to use violence as Khomeini's cadres. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- Pro-Syrian Moslems rejected Aoun's appointment, which violated the traditional distribution of political powers that gave the premiership to the Sunnis, the presidency to the Maronites and the house speakership to the Shiite Moslems. ( Quelle: AP 1989 )
- Sunnis form the majority. ( Quelle: AP 1989 )
- Iran's 50 million people overwhelmingly belong to the Shiite Moslem sect, long at odds with the Sunnis. ( Quelle: AP 1989 )
- It has gone underground since then, leaving the Sunnis without any significant militia force. ( Quelle: AP 1989 )
- The Western fear arises essentially from a confusion over vocabulary: Words such as "fundamentalist," "Islamic republic" and "jihad" (holy war) mean something very different on the lips of Afghan Sunnis than on those of Lebanese and Iranian Shiites. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- Living mainly in the centre of the country around Baghdad, they make up barely one fifth of the population. A quarter of Iraqis are Kurds, who are Sunnis but not Arabs. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1993 )