The Banias region is predominantly Alawite, an offshoot of Shiite Islam and the sect of President Bashar Assad, but has several Sunni villages to the south.

Irački je utjecaj primjetljiv u južnim područjima Shiite u Iranu Iranu ne smeta uključivanje tih teritorija u svoje sfere utjecaja.

The use of Baluchi elements, for example, is problematic, Robert Baer, a former C. I. A. clandestine officer who worked for nearly two decades in South Asia and the Middle East, told me. The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda, Baer told me. These are guys who cut off the heads of nonbelievers in this case, it ' s Shiite Iranians.

He was reportedly based in Lebanon in the 1990 s and was in charge of ties with the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah

They were shot outside the Shiite city

Bunk: Shiite if you were laying dead somewhere on some corner probably Jimmy that gunned you

President Barack Obama s adviser in terrorism, John Brennan said on Thursday that he was encouraged by the evolution of Hezbollah especially that that many members of Lebanese Shiite movement deviated from the use of violence

BAGHDAD, Aug. 9 (Xinhuanet) - - More than 360 Iraqi Shiite militiamen and four US soldiers have been killed in Najaf in the last five days during their fighting between the multinational troops and militiamen, the US military said Monday

BEIRUT Visiting British Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis on Thursday said his country was " very, very concerned " that Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah was stockpiling arms in violation of a UN resolution

Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the top Shiite cleric and spiritual leader of Hezbollah, issued a fatwa banning honour killing and describing it as a repulsive act, condemned and prohibited by religion. And earlier this year, Egypt s grand mufti upheld a fatwa stating that Islam permits a woman to have her virginity refurbished through hymen surgery, which would allow her to marry and would eliminate the need to cleanse the so-called stain on her family s honour.

U iraku su tisucljecima zivjeli budisti koji su po cijeli dan mirisali tratincice i ruze, a ameri su doveli ove sunite i shiite koji se kolju kako bi ovladali budistickim izvorima nafte

Smeta mi to što ljudi nisu sposobni ili su previše tašti prepoznati kada dolaze do točke gdje se sukobljavaju vjerski osjećaji njih samih i sudiskutanata... a većinom zapravo namjerno žele doći i prijeći tu točku jer ih ne zanima diskusija o zapravo rijetkim aspektima Religije o kojem se da raspravljati: komparativnoj teologiji, povijesti pojedinih religija, kanonskom pravu tj. ' hijerarhiji i uređenju ' pojedinih religija (ovo nije samo odlika Katoličanstva - - recimo podjela Islama na Sunnije i Shiite, i kasnije Ismailite itd.) i nekim ' hladnim ', konkretnim stvarima koje ne zadiru u Sveto Ufanje

As an example I am including a poem in ' Perfumed Garden ' by Abu Nuwas (Arab Gay poet of the Medieval c. 750 - c. 810) who was a muslim (Shiite)

Sad su se tek tukani sjetili povezati Shiite s Iranom, a Bush je vec bio proglasio Iran dio ZLE-OSOVINE...

An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili

" I believe my freedom as a Shiite and as a religious person will never be complete unless I preserve the freedom of the Sunni, the Christian, the Jew, the Sabai, or the Yazidi.

Izbjegao je vise puta potvrditi da su Ameri vec u ratu sa Irancima kroz proxy jedinice Rev Garde koje obucavaju Shiite Mahdi (i ostale) milicije

Tko kontrolira Shiite, ima i znacajnu kontrolu nad Irakom u cjelini