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What is Iraq and Iran are predominately this type of what Muslim?
Iran and Iraq consist of primarily Muslims adhering to the Shiite (or Shia) sect of the Islamic religion. In Iran, about 90% of people are Shia (the rest being Sunni), and in Iraq, about 55% are Shia, and 45% are Sunni (with ethnic Kurds being 15% Sunnis of total population of Iraq).
How were Al-Qaeda members positively identified in Iraq?
AL-Qaeda members in Iraq can be identified by their Sunni version of Islam. Sunni mosques will have terrorist Al-Qaeda members. Another way to find them is if they are from outside of Iraq, as Iraq's main population are Shiite Muslims. Also, as a point of information, the former dictator of Iraq was a Sunni Muslim.
Are most Iraqis Sunni or Shiite?
Iraq is majority Shiite, but has a significant Sunni minority.
How many Sunnis are in Iraq?
There are roughly 1800 million Muslims in the world, and the percent of Sunni Muslims in the Islamic faith is roughly 85-90%. Thus, around 1500 million of the total 7000 million people (1.5 out of 7 billion of the world population) is Sunni Muslim.
What are the three major groups in Iraq?
Kurds, Sunni, and Shiites.
What Muslims occupy most of Iraq?
They are mostly Sunni Muslims.
What type of religion does Iraq practice?
There are Christians, Kurdish Muslims, Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims in Iraq. There has been some amount of murdering of innocent people in Iraq as some of the fanatical type have been persecuting Christians there.
What is the dispute between sunni and shiite in iraq?
In Iraq, people traditionally organize politically by their religious group. As a result, there have been numerous confrontations between Iraq's diverse population for political advantages. Among these conflicts exists a conflict between Sunni Arabs and Shiite Arab, especially near Baghdad where the neighborhoods are evenly mixed between them.
Was salahuddin a sunni or sufi?
He was a sunni, as a matter of fact he was a Kurdish too, he was born in Tikrit(Iraq), where Saddam Hussein born.
What caused the civil war in the Islamic empire?
The majority of Iraq say it was American soldiers that bombed a sunni's car and told the sunni that it was the shia people who did it. I know it since I am Iraqi and all of the Iraqis i know say the same.
Why did US put shiites in power in Iraq instead of sunis?
US did not decide about it. US came to Iraq for stay, not for leave. actually US was forced to leave Iraq, not intended to leave Iraq. so US did not have any plan for what will happen after leave. Shia Muslims themselves are more political and have more power in Iraq. Well that is not what happened! The US Military took over Iraq and defeated the Military that was controlled by the Sunnis. After the USA defeated the Sunni Military they disbanded the Sunni Military. If the USA had left the Sunni Military in power they the Sunnis would have controlled Iraq, but the USA disbanded the Sunni Military and Sunni Government and allowed the majority Shii take over. WHY DID THEY DO IT! Saudi Arabia and the majority of Arab governments are Sunni controlled and you can bet they were not happy with the Bush Administration and the USA allowing the Shia taking over Iraq and bolstering Iran that also has a Shaei government! Why did the USA put a Shia government when they could have left Sunnis in power?
What two religion are practiced around Baghdad Iraq?
Sunni Islam and Shia Islam.
