Sunni Islam

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Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, with an estimated 85–90% of the world's Muslim population following it. The name "Sunni" comes from the term ahl al-sunna wa-l-jama'a, which means "people of the prophetic tradition and the community".


 

Adherents on Wikispooks

AdherentBornDiedDescription
Keith Ellison4 August 1963American politician and lawyer serving as the 30th Attorney General of Minnesota. He was the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan26 February 1954
Muammar Gaddafi7 June 194220 October 2011
Hani Hanjour13 August 197211 September 2001A poor pilot who supposedly piloted a 747 into the Pentagon.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar26 June 1947
Saddam Hussein28 April 193730 December 2006A brutal dictator who enjoyed US support until he ceased following their orders.
'Jihadi John'17 August 198812 November 2015A British Arab man alleged to be the person seen in several atrocity videos obtained and published by SITE Intelligence Group - hard to tell fact from spin in the story, he is possibly a Wag the Dog person.
Fahri Korutürk3 August 190312 October 1987Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician who was president of Turkey 1973-1980. Presided over the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
Samantha Lewthwaite5 December 1983"The world's most wanted woman", stated the Daily Mail in 2018.
Germaine Lindsay23 September 19857 July 2005
Najib Mikati24 November 1955Lebanese Billionaire. Currently serving his third term as Prime Minister.
Hosni Mubarak4 May 192825 February 2020
Gamal Abdel Nasser15 January 191828 September 1970Egyptian President who died of a heart attack in 1970.
Anwar Sadat25 December 19186 October 1981As a peace-making Egyptian leader, an obvious enemy of the MICC.
Aafia Siddiqui2 March 1972American-educated Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist, tortured and raped for years by US forces, now serving a life sentence after a trial of a highly questionable nature.
Suharto8 June 192127 January 2008
Sukarno6 June 190121 June 1970
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez12 October 1949
Hussein bin Talal14 November 19357 February 1999King Hussein of Jordan ruled from 1952 to 1999
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev22 July 1993
Tamerlan Tsarnaev21 October 198619 April 2013Official perpetrator of the Boston Bombings, possibly an FBI double agent. Died after an encounter with US police custody.
Abdurrahman Wahid7 September 194030 December 2009President of Indonesia 1999-2001
Joko Widodo21 June 1961
Malcolm X19 May 192521 February 1965Black radical leader who advocated revolution in the US.
Anwar al-Awlaki21 April 197130 September 2011The first assassination victim in modern times for whose death the US government has openly admitted responsibility.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi28 July 196126 October 2019
Husni al-Za'im189714 August 1949
İsmet İnönü24 September 188425 December 1973Turkish PM intermittently from 1923 to 1965

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Islam“The British had been deliberately exploiting and exacerbating the Shia/Sunni divide as early as 1836 to the Imperial purpose.”Craig Murray20 December 2018

 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:The End of Pluralism in the Middle Eastblog post6 December 2024Craig Murray"It is the United States which is promoting the cause of religious extremism and of the end, all over the Middle East, of a societal pluralism similar to Western norms. That is of course a direct consequence of the United States being allied to both the two religio-supremacist centres of Israel and Saudi Arabia."
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