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	Search Tuna Report for Sunni Muslims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sunni Islam is the heir to the early central Islamic state, in its ackowledgement of the legitimacy of the order of succession of the first four caliphs (see caliphate), in contrast to the Shiite rejection of the first three as usurpers.
		Muslim Sects The seeds of schism were planted upon the deathbed of the Prophet Muhammad, when, according to Shi`i tradition, he indicated that Ali be his successor as the leader of Islam....
		Sunni Muslims follow the Quran the holy book of Islam and the Sunnah sayings and practices of the Prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him as practiced and understood by the early Muslims the Sahaba, or Companions of the Prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him....
	searchtuna.com /ftlive/2301.html (4171 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sunni Muslims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some have argued that "Sunni" actually means or is derived from a word that means "a middle path" referring to the idea that Sunnism is a more neutral position than the perceivedly more extreme viewpoints of the Shia and the Kharijites.
		Sunni muslims outnumber Shi'ite muslims in Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Sudan (70%), Syria (80%), Tajikistan (85%), Libya (97%), Jordan (92%) and certain islands like the Maldives, Comoros (98%) and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (80%).
		Sunnis base their religion on the Quran and the Sunnah as understood by the majority of the community under the structure of the four schools of thought.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sunni-Muslims (893 words)

	Sunni Islam -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of (The monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran) Islam.
		Many Muslims (among them some of Muhammad's widows and companions) believed that (Click link for more info and facts about Uthman) Uthman, the third (The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth) caliph, was favoring his kin and abusing his power.
		Muslim scholars sifted through the hadith, identifying those which, in their opinion, were authentic, and worthy of imitation, and those which were later innovations.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/sunni_islam.htm (1343 words)

	Sunni Islam
		The Sunni tradition is known in Arabic as the Ahl-i Sunnah (the People of Sunnah), a term which according to the earliest classical sources emerged in the ninth century.
		One of the challenges confronting Muslim scholars was how to determine which of the many thousands of hadith attributed to the Prophet and his companions were authentic.
		Modern Islamic Political Thought: The Response of the Shi'i and Sunni Muslims to the Twentieth Century.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/islam/sunni/geness.html (934 words)

	Welcome to Ethics Daily.com!
		Sunni means "path" or "way" and refers to Muslims who follow the traditional words and teachings of Muhammad.
		Shia Muslims insist Ali was the first of 12 caliphs, all of whom were direct descendents of Muhammad through Ali and Fatima.
		Shia Muslims still celebrate the martyrdom of Ali's son Husain, who was killed in a battle with an opposing Muslim army.
	www.ethicsdaily.com /article_detail.cfm?AID=2180 (714 words)

	Shia News \| Asia \| 1 Shia, 2 Sunni Muslims martyred by Wahabis in Karachi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1 Shia, 2 Sunni Muslims martyred by Wahabis in Karachi
		Sunni muslims also became a target of Wahabi terrorism when they refused to accept the barbaric beliefs of the Saudi cult.
		The Muslim prayers, according to all Muslim sects, are not accepted by God until blessings (Darood) are said for the prophet and his holy progeny.
	www.shianews.com /hi/asia/news_id/0001627.php (1402 words)

	Sunni Islam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Followers of the Sunni tradition are known as Sunnis or Sunnites, and often refer to themselves as the Ahlus Sunnah wal-Jamaa'h.
		Modern Sunnis will admit that Ali ibn Abi Talib, the leader of one faction that clashed with the Umayyads, was a rightful caliph, but they argue that after Ali's death, the caliphate passed to the Umayyads.
		Muslims of the centuries following Muhammad had to face many questions that were not specifically answered in the Qur'an, especially questions with regard to philosophical conundrums like the nature of God, the possibility of human free will, or the eternal existence of the Qur'an.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sunni-Islam.htm (1290 words)

	Sunni Muslims on the Sidelines As Shiites, Kurds Bargain Over New Iraq
		Meanwhile, the largely Sunni insurgency continued as a car bomb killed two American soldiers in Baghdad on Saturday, and U.S. military officials reported that a Marine was killed on Friday in al Anbar province in Iraq's Sunni heartland.
		A conference last week intended to bring major Sunni parties together was poorly attended, and the scholar's association representative used it to rail against the U.S. presence in Iraq and anything connected to it.
		Some Sunni leaders have floated the idea of creating a federation of three Sunni provinces, which, under a clause in the nation's transitional law, could veto any constitution passed by the Shiite- and Kurdish-dominated assembly.
	www.aina.org /news/20050327110113.htm (886 words)

	Sunni Muslims in Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The harrowing persecution of Sunni Muslims in Iran has continued unabated for decades with the minority of Muslims in the world being blissfully unaware of it.
		Sunni Muslims are hunted and imprisoned for paltry accusations.
		When the Sunni Muslims formed political parties, to unite themselves and, campaign for their legal rights, Mufti-zadeh, one of their leaders was arrested.
	www.islamsa.org.za /arrasheed/ar0303/sunni_muslims_in_iran.htm (375 words)

	ipedia.com: Sunni Islam Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One proximal cause of this first civil war was that the Muslims of Iraq and Egypt resented the power of the third Caliph and his governors; another cause was business rivalries between factions of the mercantile aristocracy.
		The four Sunni schools of thought (madhahib), the Hanafi, the Maliki, the Shafi'i and the Hanbali apply slightly different reasoning when deducing Sharia, or Islamic law, from the Hadith, but they all mutually recognise each others' methods and conclusions (even where they differ) as logically sound and equally acceptable alternatives.
		However all three of established Sunni schools in South Asia, i.e the Berailvi, the Deobandi and the Wahhabi consider Shia to be apostates from Islam.
	www.ipedia.com /sunni_islam.html (771 words)

	Once-Powerful Sunni Muslims May Forgo Vote
		They urged Sunnis to take part in the elections and sought to dispel fears that they were under the sway of Iran or were trying to establish an Islamic theocracy.
		Sunnis also complain that the recent U.S.-led crackdown in Fallujah, which was supposed to clear the city of insurgents in time for elections, actually made it more difficult for Sunnis.
		A low turnout because of the fear of violence or a Sunni boycott could undermine the legitimacy of the country's first free elections since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958.
	www.truthout.org /docs_05/printer_010405B.shtml (1516 words)

	What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?
		The Sunni branch believes that the first four caliphs--Mohammed's successors--rightfully took his place as the leaders of Muslims.
		for Sunni Muslims, approximately 90 percent of the Muslim world, the loss of the caliphate after World War I was devastating in light of the hitherto continuous historic presence of the caliph, the guardian of Islamic law and the Islamic state.
		Sunni fundamentalist leaders thereafter emerged in nations such as Egypt and India, where contact with Western political structures provided them with a model awkwardly to imitate...
	hnn.us /articles/934.html (476 words)

	AllRefer.com - Iran - Sunni Muslims in Iran \| Iranian Information Resource
		AllRefer.com - Iran - Sunni Muslims in Iran
		Sunni Muslims constitute approximately 8 percent of the Iranian population.
		A majority of Kurds, virtually all Baluchis and Turkomans, and a minority of Arabs are Sunnis, as are small communities of Persians in southern Iran and Khorasan.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/iran/iran75.html (299 words)

	Muslims, Islam, and Iraq
		Muslim scholars arrested in Iraq "US forces in Iraq have arrested a number of members of the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) in Iraq after their participation in a conference calling for boycotting Iraqi elections." The most significant scholar arrested was 'Abd al-Sattar 'Abd al-Jabbar.
		Muslims Urge Iraq Co-operation The countries of Turkey, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt urged 'Iraq to co-operate with the UN weapons' inspectors; from the newspaper, Herald Sun (Australia), January 24, 2003.
		Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) Statement on the Brink of War This American Muslim organization states its opposition to the war in Iraq but does not jump on the bandwagon of those Muslim organizations outside the US that are calling for jihad.
	www.uga.edu /islam/iraq.html (8395 words)

	Sunni Muslims
		Sunnah means roughly "tradition", and Sunni Muslims are the 80 to 90% of all Muslims.
		Sunni Muslims themselves admit there might be some small errors in the Hadiths, because the wording is different.
		Sunni commentators in the Hadiths stress that the Qur’an itself is not sufficient.
	www.muslimhope.com /Sunnis.htm (2779 words)

	Restatement of History of Islam and Muslims
		The first four caliphs, sanctified by Muslim tradition as the righteous rulers, did indeed emerge from the Muslim elite on a non-hereditary basis, by processes which might be described as electoral in the Sunni legal sense; but three of the four reigns were ended by murder, the last two amid civil war.
		Yet to impugn the validity of the system of government under which the Muslims lived was to impugn the orthodoxy of the Islamic umma, a position unacceptable to the Sunni ulema, whose very definition of orthodoxy rested on the precedent and practice of the community.
		The Sunni jurists, theorists and political analysts have shown astonishing consistency, in all their expositions, in upholding the principle that obedience must be given to whoever has power in his hands.
	www.al-shia.com /html/eng/books/restatment/46.htm (2769 words)

	Sunni Triangle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslims of the same ethnicity as former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and most of his Ba'ath Party.
		It was widely predicted that Saddam would seek shelter from Sunni supporters and on December 13, 2003, he was captured in a raid on the village of ad-Dawr some 15km south of Tikrit.
		The "Sunni Triangle" should not be confused with the so-called "Triangle of Death," an area south of Baghdad inhabited by both Sunni and Shia Muslims which was the focus of major combat activity in November and December 2004.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sunni-Triangle.htm (271 words)

	ummah.com forum - View Single Post - Disturbing Pictures of Iranian sunni Muslims tortured by the Iranian
		What is more by achieving these aims, the government in one hand would gain control over the Sunni dominated areas and on the other hand it would be able to cut off all links which the people have had over centuries with their brother Sunni Muslims in the region.
		It is evident by increasing the Shiite population deliberating in these regions and keeping the Sunni Muslims in minority, the Sunnis will not be able to bring enough vote to send their representative in Parliament of the regime.Hence, the Sunni Muslims would have no voice in present Iranian policy.
		In this way a Sunni Muslim student following his graduation is able to know by heart the names of Shiite religious characters and the contents of their books, but he knows almost nothing about his own religion this is a way a clear example of brainwashing.
	www.ummah.net /forum/showpost.php?p=46955&postcount=5 (2924 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Sunni Muslims carve out new political role (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With Saddam Hussein in captivity, some tribal elders from his old power base are showing greater willingness to work with Iraq's American occupiers, realizing they must carve out a new political role for the Sunni Muslim minority that long ruled the country.
		At a meeting this week between tribal leaders and U.S. commanders, a prominent elder from the village where the ousted Iraqi dictator was born made a dramatic acknowledgment that Saddam's era was over.
		Sunnis have ruled Iraq for centuries and dominated the country under Saddam's regime, filling high-ranking positions and reaping economic benefits.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2003/12/24/sunni_muslims_carve_out_new_political_role (882 words)

	ABC News: Sunni Muslims Question Iraq Vote Veracity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iraq's leading Sunni Muslim clerics said Wednesday the landmark Iraqi elections lack legitimacy because large numbers of Sunnis did not participate in the balloting which the clerics had asked them to boycott.
		With many Sunnis having stayed away, a ticket endorsed by the Shiite clergy is expected to gain the biggest number of seats in the 275-member National Assembly, followed by the Kurds and a list headed by interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite.
		Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the Shiite Muslim who heads the ticket expected to have won the largest number of parliamentary seats, indicated in a Wednesday interview with The Associated Press that his group wants the post of prime minister in Iraq's new government.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=464758 (1267 words)

	Iraq Leader Reaches Out to Sunni Muslims (phillyBurbs.com)
		Sunni members of the constitutional drafting committee oppose several parts of the document, which was handed to parliament Monday.
		But now Sunni clerics are urging their followers to register and take part in the October referendum to reject a constitution if the final version is unfavorable to their interests.
		About 400 Sunni Arabs and Shiite followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rallied Wednesday in the town of Hawija southwest of Kirkuk to protest the draft constitution and plans for federalism.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/93-08242005-531833.html (1182 words)

	Muslim unity? Ya Right! Muslims are divided into many splinter groups who kill each other. (Sunni and Shi'a sects)
		Muslims are divided into many splinter groups who kill each other.
		The great mass of Muslims, however, form the Sunni sect, ruled over at first by the caliphs of the Umayyad Dynasty reigning in Damascus, and then by the 'Abbasid Dynasty reigning in Baghdad, until the caliphate was taken over by the Turks.
		Muslims traditionally parade the unity of the Islamic world before Christians as a preferable religious organism to the multitudinous churches and sects of Christendom.
	www.bible.ca /islam/islam-myths-divided-into-many-muslim-sects.htm (1834 words)

	Sect: Sunni Muslims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the differences between Sunni Islam and the various Shi'ite sects started out as political, the distinction between the two groups has gradually become more and more theological as well.
		In principle, Sunni Muslims' relationship with God is direct and is not mediated by anything like a priest or rabbi.
		Some religious figures may exercise a great deal of political or social power, but committees of socially important believers in each community are generally responsible for the management of the mosque and its land.
	www.mylinuxisp.com /~jrlaw/islam/sunni_muslims.htm (316 words)

	Shia News \| Asia \| Hundreds of Sunni Muslims arrested in Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Attempting to prevent a strike called by a Sunni Muslim group to protest the slaying of its leader by Wahabis, police arrested hundreds of people in southern Pakistan on Sunday.
		Sunni Tehrik called the strike to protest the May 18 killing of its leader, Saleem Qadri, and five of his companions, who were shot by terrorists belonging to Sipah e Sahaba when they were going toward a mosque.
		Shias and Sunnis are muslim brothers, Irshadul Haq Thanvi
	www.shianews.com /hi/asia/news_id/0001081.php (319 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Al-Qaeda warns Sunni Muslims to avoid likely targets of terror attacks in Iraq
		The statement advised Sunnis to stay away from Baghdad International Airport, which the group claimed "is a hide out for the crusaders and the renegades."
		The group is led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Sunni from Jordan who has vowed to attack Iraq's majority Shiite Muslim population in a bid to start a civil war.
		Sunnis, who comprise about 20 percent of Iraq's population, lost influence in Iraq after their patron, dictator Saddam Hussein, was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20050725-1445-iraq-al-qaidawarning.html (284 words)

	Sunni
		Sunni Islam is the heir to the early central Islamic state, in its ackowledgement of the legitimacy of the order of succession of the first four caliphs (see
		Sunni Ali Ber - Sunni Ali Ber Songhai emperor Born: 1464 FSunni Ali Ber was the first great leader of...
		Sunnis gather to create a new political front.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0847245.html (394 words)

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