There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the source of all this conflict between the Sunnis and Shia is some major powers that do not want religious unity… — Yousef Saanei Copy Share Image
To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army.… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt people who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
I was so lucky to be working with amazing actors like Shia and Evan and James Buckley and Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert… — Fredrik Bond Copy Share Image
There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from [the Shias] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust… — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias.… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right, because they're looking at also organizing the Sunni tribes up around Mosul to take back that city as well. That's the… — Tom Bowman Copy Share Image
I've lived here [in Egypt] among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
“But Shia scholars would maintain that Muhammad had long before made the divinely guided choice of his closest male relative—his son-in-law Ali—as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The reason that ISIL was so successful, yes, it had to do with their capabilities and prowess on the battlefield, but they… — James Clapper Copy Share Image
My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
I started out as a writer with an hour removed from Kingdom of Heaven. You have to make one print for the… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[A conflict of Sunni vs. Shia] is in the mind of the Saudis, and this is in the minds of the Wahabists.… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds… — Raymond T. Odierno Copy Share Image
I have nothing against Sean Penn. I don't even mind that he ended up divorcing Madonna. I mean, I still like Shia… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Fourth, we will continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This includes Sunni and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
![“Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from [the Shias] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman and my tenets don't permit me to veil Nor is it any good trying to make friends through the women - if they were allowed to see me they would veil before me as if I were a…” quote by Gertrude Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3f9/gertrude-bell-36791_cutting_until-quite-recently-i-ve-been-wholly-cu_13723.jpg)
![“I've lived here [in Egypt] among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia. The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular.” quote by Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c78/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_baha_i-ve-lived-here-in-egypt-among-christian_1326210.jpg)
![“[A conflict of Sunni vs. Shia] is in the mind of the Saudis, and this is in the minds of the Wahabists. [The Iranians] actually what they are doing is the opposite. They tried to open channels with the Saudi, with many other Islamic entities in the region in order to talk about Islamic society…” quote by Bashar al-Assad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/25d/bashar-al-assad-1027_conflict_a-conflict-of-sunni-vs-shia-is-in-the-mi_1475735.jpg)
