Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam   (Religion)

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

Adherent	Born	Died	Description
Keith Ellison	4 August 1963		American politician and lawyer serving as the 30th Attorney General of Minnesota. He was the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	26 February 1954		Became President of Turkey in 2014
Muammar Gaddafi	7 June 1942	20 October 2011	Strikingly independent leader who governed Libya for 42 years and rarely bowed to the Western establishment
Hani Hanjour	13 August 1972	11 September 2001	A poor pilot who supposedly piloted a 747 into the Pentagon.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar	26 June 1947
Saddam Hussein	28 April 1937	30 December 2006	A brutal dictator who enjoyed US support until he ceased following their orders.
'Jihadi John'	17 August 1988	12 November 2015	A 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.
Abdullah II of Jordan	30 January 1962		King Abdullah has been in power for 25 years. His dad King Hussein ruled for 47 years.
Fahri Korutürk	3 August 1903	12 October 1987	Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician who was president of Turkey 1973-1980. Presided over the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
Samantha Lewthwaite	5 December 1983		"The world's most wanted woman", stated the Daily Mail in 2018.
Germaine Lindsay	23 September 1985	7 July 2005
Najib Mikati	24 November 1955		Lebanese Billionaire. Currently serving his third term as Prime Minister.
Hosni Mubarak	4 May 1928	25 February 2020	President of Egypt 1981-2011
Gamal Abdel Nasser	15 January 1918	28 September 1970	Egyptian President who died of a heart attack in 1970.
Anwar Sadat	25 December 1918	6 October 1981	As a peace-making Egyptian leader, an obvious enemy of the MICC.
Aafia Siddiqui	2 March 1972		American-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.
Suharto	8 June 1921	27 January 2008	President of Indonesia 1968-1998
Sukarno	6 June 1901	21 June 1970
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez	12 October 1949
Hussein bin Talal	14 November 1935	7 February 1999	King Hussein of Jordan ruled from 1952 to 1999
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev	22 July 1993
Tamerlan Tsarnaev	21 October 1986	19 April 2013	Official perpetrator of the Boston Bombings, possibly an FBI double agent. Died after an encounter with US police custody.
Abdurrahman Wahid	7 September 1940	30 December 2009	President of Indonesia 1999-2001
Joko Widodo	21 June 1961
Malcolm X	19 May 1925	21 February 1965	Black radical leader who advocated revolution in the US.
Anwar al-Awlaki	21 April 1971	30 September 2011	The first assassination victim in modern times for whose death the US government has openly admitted responsibility.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi	28 July 1961	26 October 2019
Husni al-Za'im	1897	14 August 1949
İsmet İnönü	24 September 1884	25 December 1973	Turkish PM intermittently from 1923 to 1965

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Islam	“The British had been deliberately exploiting and exacerbating the Shia/Sunni divide as early as 1836 to the Imperial purpose.”	Craig Murray	20 December 2018

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The End of Pluralism in the Middle East	blog post	6 December 2024	Craig 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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