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Meaning of "shi'ites"

Shi'ites (verb): Refers to the followers of the Shia branch of Islam
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Shi'ites are also economically under pressure.
The other four people executed were Shi'ites.
Shi'ites are well known for their practice of taqiyah.
They said was a sectarian attack on Shi'ites.
Shi'ites played an essential role in the foundation and establishment of these sciences.
Hussein is seen by the Shi'ites as their first imam.
Shi'ites are a minority everywhere except Iran.
In other regions of the world also there are tens of millions of Shi'ites.
The Shi'ites have been driven out of their homeland.
Critics have accused him of increasingly using language aimed at Shi'ites.
Shi'ites are still an oppressed minority in many Muslim countries.
Nasrallah argued that this cabinet was unconstitutional because the Shi'ites were no longer in it.
Shi'ites mark this event in their calendar as the Ashoura.
It also made it possible for the Shi'ites to propagate their religious views openly.
Some Shi'ites have been receiving text message death threats.

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Devised for political convenience, this view of Shi'ites solidified into institutionalized prejudice.
Our Shi'ites are those whose ears do not pass over their knowledge.
As has become clear form the previous pages, the majority of Shi'ites are Twelvers.
Many Shi'ites complain of being politically and economically marginalised, a charge the government denies.
Kurds have a much more egalitarian view of gender relations than either Sunnis or Shi'ites.
The Shi'ites are threatening to fight the Americans, to create their own war of liberation.
In nearly all lands where there are Muslims one can find a certain number of Shi'ites.
However, the Shi'ites did not succeed in capturing even the tiny refugee camp of Sabra.
They want their holy war against the apostate Shi'ites and they will get it.
Shi'ites today see their form of Islam as the purest representation of Muhammad 's original religion.
It also opposed discrimination against Shi'ites.
Some of the Shi'ites who initially joined demonstrations have stayed away after the speeches.
The remaining ten percent are either Shi'ites or Christians.
The Shi'ites originated from the supporters.
The slaughter at Karbala is the cornerstone of the Shi'ites.
Shi'ites and Christians are also sizable minorities in Syria.
The other major group of Muslims is the Shi'ites.
At least five Shi'ites were wounded in the clashes Sunday.
Another schism viewed as heretical by jihadis are the Ismaili Shi'ites.
Hezbollah provided aid to the shi'ites living in squalor in Southern Lebanon.
Some Shi'ites have gone so far as to claim godhead for those Imams.
Most of these were just young Shi'ites who wanted to fight ISIS.
Shi'ites participating in religious events are often targeted by Sunni Muslim extremists.
Our resolve to protect the Kurds and Shi'ites must be undiminished.
The martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali is commemorated annually by millions of Shi'ites.
Many Shi'ites and local Christians felt their best option was to convert.
And they do not want to live like the Shi'ites in Lebanon.
The Shi'ites showed in their war tactics how far they are from Islaam.
Whether or not she married Umar is a controversial topic between Sunnis and Shi'ites.
The Shi'ites believed that there were twelve Immans, who were legitimate successors to Muhammad.
There is evidence that the majority of Lebanese Shi'ites would prefer the beach.
Many young Shi'ites left the organization and joined the more extreme Hezbollah.
The controversies assume a particularly violent character between the Shi'ites and the Wahhabites.
Saudi Arabia denies discrimination against Shi'ites and accuses Iran of fomenting unrest, a charge Tehran denies.
The abducted children are mostly from Christian communities and some are Shi'ites and Sunnis.

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