ISSUES OF MINORITY WITHIN MINORITY IN A MULTICULTURAL FRAMEWORK: A PLIGHT OF SHIA MINORITY VIS--VIS SUNNI MAJORITY IN INDIAKAUSHAL, RachanaDanubius
Both Sunni and Shia believe in the five pillars of Islam seen as the foundation of Muslim life. These are theShahada, or profession of faith, prayer, fasting during Ramadan, performing the pilgrimage, orHajj, and payingzakat, or alms. Sunni do not share the Shia doctrine ofvelayet-e-faqih...
Although the title was used by some Muslim rulers until it was eliminated in 1924 by Turkey’s first President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. These declines of the caliphate become an instigator for some Sunni activists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They held that the leaders had destabilized...
” small children being trained in al-Qaeda training camps based in “rebel”-held territory in Idlib. TIP maintains at least two training camps in Syria – one for children and one for adults.The TIP is active in China,Afghanistan,
Sunni rebels led by Juhayman al-‘Utaybi, the Shi’a in the Eastern Province staged Muharam rituals in public, defying a ban on public Shi’a processions in place since 1913. The instigators of this uprising were a network of young Islamists led by Hasan al-Safar and Tawfiq al-Sayf. ...
Islam, in its original meaning and purpose, is a religion of 'peace'. Whether "Sunni" or "Shia" though Shia is the most peaceful based on evidence and Sunni is the version of Empire (war). In such parts of the world like Java and Sumatra this is where you find the most genuine pra...