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What religious sect in Iraq is causing the US the most trouble is it the Shi'ites Sunni or the Kurds?
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∙ 15y ago
That's not really a valid question since Shia and Sunni are beliefes and Kurd is a race of people, but anyway the Kurds are not causing any trouble at all - so that leaves Shias and Sunnis. Between them the sunnis are causing ALL the problem against the US. Take Al-Qaida (sunnis) for instance they hate usa and the shias equally. In fact they have a saying - "kill 10 shias and you will be given a pass to heaven". Doesnt make any sense since the Koran (islams holy book) says killing is prohibited unless it's done in self defense.
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What are the three major groups in Iraq?
Kurds, Sunni, and Shiites.
Branch of Islam found primarily in Iraq and Iran?
Iran has shia Islam as the state religion and about 96% of Iranians are actually shiites. Iraq is a more difficult situation, Iraq consists of three major religious groups, Shiite muslims, Sunnite muslims and Kurds. Kurds live in the North-west of the country, shiites live in the east and north-east of the country (along the border with Iran), and sunnites are found in the rest of the country. Kurds don't have a main religion. some are shiites, some are sunnites. The majority of kurds are sunnites though. the overall religion of Iraq consists of 65% Shiites and 35% sunnites. this has created a lot of difficulty for Iraqi politics. the President is a sunnite and the prime minister is a shiite. it took more than 100 days for the winning parties to form a coalition partially because of the religious differences.
Are the kurds an ethnic or religious group?
The term "Kurds" is an ETHNIC classification. It refers to a group of people who have similar cultural norms, a unique language, and similar appearance. Kurds actually have a huge religious diversity. While the majority of them are Sunni Muslims, there are also religious minority Kurds, such as the Yarsani, Yezidi, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Jewish Kurds.
What were the primary ethnic factional groups fighting each other in Iraq after the invasion?
Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds
Are Kurds an ethnic or religious group?
Kurds are an ethnic group. While the majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims, there are significant religious minorities among the Kurds such as Shiite Muslims, Jews, Christians, Baha'i, Yarsan, Yezidi and other religions.
What religious group are most Kurds and Arabs?
Sunni Muslims.
What did Iraqi kurds and shiite Muslims want Saddam Hussein to do after the Persian gulf war?
Saddam Hussein had committed numerous atrocities against the Kurds and Shiites, including a genocide against the Kurds (called the Anfal Campaign). As a result they hated him and wanted to punish him. Unfortunately, they had to wait until 2006 to put him on trial for his crimes.
Do Kurds celebrate Christmas?
Generally, No. Of the overall 35 million Kurds, there are less the 35,000 Christian Kurds, which makes Christians less than 0.1% of the Kurdish population. Understandably, Christian Kurds celebrate Christmas, but Muslim, Jewish, Yazidi, Zoroastrian, and non-religious Kurds do not celebrate Christmas.
How long have the Sunnis and Shiites been fighting against each other?
Sunni and Shiite are different sects of Islam, but Kurds are an ethnic group. Kurds are predominantly Sunni Muslims (although there are minorities of Shiite Kurds, especially in Iran, and non-Muslim Kurds as well). As a result, it is incorrect to call the Kurds a "religious faction" since what sets them apart in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey is their ethnicity, not their religion. The Sunnis and Shiites have been religious rivals since the mid-600s C.E. since the First Islamic Civil War or Fitna al-Kubra. Historically, in Iraq, the Sunnis had control after the Shiites lost the First Islamic Civil War and the Shiites were repressed almost consistently for 1300 years. Kurds were largely absent from this since Kurdistan was separately administrated from the Arab-populated areas, assuming that it was even in the same empire. In terms of the three-way political fighting between Sunni Arabs, Shiite Arabs, and Kurds, this only started when the borders of Iraq were artificially drawn in 1919 to give the British access to petroleum reserves in Basra (in the Shiite-Arab-dominated south) and Mosul (in the Kurd-dominated north). Initially, there were some Kurdish independence movements in the 1920s in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, but all were brutally supressed by the national governments of those countries. As Iraq began to have a more Pro-Arab and Secularist agenda and alignment before and after World War II, the Kurds suffered more and the Shiite Arab situation did not improve from historical intemperance. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Iraqi government committed numerous atrocities against the Kurds (especially), but also against Shiite Arabs, and other religious minorities, including the Anfal Campaign (which is considered a genocide against the Kurds) as well as the Dujail Massacre against Shiite Arabs (which was the primary charge for which Saddam Hussein was hanged in 2006). This violence led to the Kurdish and Shiite Arab uprisings in late 1991, following Iraq's defeat in the Persian Gulf War of 1991. Again, the government brutally supressed these uprisings. With the US invasion and the Iraq War, the governing structure of Iraq was put into flux and the different groups (Sunni Arabs, Shiite Arabs and Kurds) are now vying for political power. As concerns the current interaction between Sunni Kurds, Sunni Arabs, and Shiite Arabs in Iraq, their fundamental differences are religiosity (how religious they are), tribalism, factionalism, militarism, and historic enmities. The conflict between these groups in modern Iraq is for the most part political, economic, and social (as opposed to religious) even though religious dialogue is often used to excite combatants.
How did Saddam treat the ethnic kurds and religious shi'ites?
limited and controlled and even killed them.
Does ISIS have Shia and Christians and Kurds within their ranks as well as their Sunni members?
No. For Shiites and Christians, the answer is unequivocally no. ISIL only accepts Sunni Muslims who agree with their particular Islamist and Jihadist views. As for Kurds, while it is possible to imagine a few Kurds being swayed by ISIL arguments, the majority of Kurds would see joining ISIL to be a betrayal of everything it means to be a Kurd because of ISIL's current wars against both Iraqi Kurdistan and Syrian Kurdistan.As concerns the nonsense claim in the Community Answer about Shiites not being terrorists (just like Sunnis), please see this Related Question: Can Shiite Muslims be terrorists?
Did some of the people in Saddam Hussein genocide survive?
Yes, many. Kurds and Shiites were far from being wiped out in Iraq. Hussein never came close to killing them all, assuming that was indeed his intention. And even if he could have killed them all in Iraq, he could still do nothing against the Kurds in Turkey and the Shiites in Iran. Rather than a genocide, I think it is more likely a case of a dictator pummeling people because he did not like them, and because he could.
