26 Sunni Quotes for You to Enjoy

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. Simon Hoggart

I do not believe that the Sunni tribes have gone over to the Islamic State. John F. Kelly

Gone Believe State Tribes Sunni Over Islamic

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. Elliott Abrams

Syria Muslim Sunni Population

During the surge in Iraq, we were able to roll back the tide of al-Qaeda and associated insurgents because we succeeded in mobilizing Iraqis - especially Sunni Arabs - to join us in fighting against the largely Sunni extremist networks in their midst. David Petraeus

As we used to say when I was privileged to be the commander there, Nineveh province has the most diverse human terrain in all of Iraq - Sunni Arab majority to be sure, but also Shia Arabs, numerous Kurdish communities, and they are broken out into several different political parties. David Petraeus

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Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections. Richard Engel

Free Sunni Most Surprisingly Little Regions Elections Appetite

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north. Richard Engel

Three Before State Sunni Were Kurdish South Iraq Provinces North Modern Middle Created Separate Initially Largely Here

Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest of the region. For better or worse, it will lead the rest of the Middle East by example. So goes Egypt, so goes the region. Richard Engel

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From the outside, Qatar and U.A.E. likely look like twins - small, oil-rich Sunni monarchies that are largely friendly to the U.S. But their philosophies on the region are very different - Qatar does not fear Islamism as does the U.A.E. Chris Murphy

Fear Philosophies Sunni Small Outside Like Look Likely Does Friendly Very Different Region Largely Twins

A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be. Robert Fisk

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a secular regime, and therefore he is considered by Sunni militants to be an apostate, and he is inflicting a total war on his Sunni population. Peter Bergen

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In Syria, a no-fly zone targeted at Assad's air force and safe zones for refugees fleeing the fighting would help tamp down the death toll that plays into the hands of ISIS and other Sunni militants who can position themselves as the only groups that are really defending the Sunni population. Peter Bergen

Death Air Force Fighting Down Other Air Syria Would Sunni Only Safe Force Targeted Hands Refugees Themselves Fleeing Really Help Who Toll Groups Population Zone Plays Defending Position

Syria is a multi-confessional state: in addition to Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are Alawites, Orthodox and other Christian confessions, Druzes, and Kurds. Sergei Lavrov

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These Sunni Arabs in places like al Anbar province in Iraq, where I served back in 2007, if they see Iran as the dominant power, a Shiite country, they're going to be much more likely to want to join ISIS. Ron DeSantis

I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. Lynsey Addario

Car Accident Valley Kidnapped Sunni Driver Taliban Occupation Covering Iraq Afghanistan While Pakistan Car Accident Injured Near

In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric. Ryan Zinke

Political Before Control Out Sunni Weapons Seeing Alongside Empowering Without Chemical Leaving Were Kurds Iraq Left Exodus Effects Stable Just Rhetoric Them Agreement Fought

I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening. Jack Keane

By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated. Jack Keane

Mind Relatively Those Sunni City Able Had Pick Clearly Also Said Insurgency Were Been Iranians End Up Trained Stabilized Many Al Militia Largely Al-Qaeda Actually Defeated

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency. Wayne White

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