How to pronounce “sunni” in English

- Sunniva Sorby is from San Diego.

Sunnis and Shiites were killing each other left and right.

sunning ourselves in Spain, munching on Manchego, and sipping Rioja.

The Sunni movement there is-- The Sunni population, some of which were Saddam Hussein regime loyalists,

- And Sunniva hadn't been on a lot of expeditions, and Sunniva was younger than the rest of us by a fair bit,

And Sunniva, who had the least experience and was the youngest on the trip says, well, it doesn't have to be that way.

I'm Sunni Yuen.

very conservative but legitimate sunni and shia leaders that this is probably

majority and the Sunni minority in in Iraq and Shia were out there death squads you know killing Sunni in Revenge

for this attack the Sunni community felt under threat and Al-Qaeda came in and

within the Sunni Community during that period the US was kind of backing out of Iraq we had this policy of sitting in these super for

cash towards Sunni militias to battle the Iranian supported Maki army maktarat

And I actually heard Sunniva's tale firsthand at a gathering some time ago, and I was truly inspired by her tale of adversity

Join us welcoming Sunniva.

violence against sunnis violence against Shiites tended to occur in the daytime in public places with bombs in Shiite

It's also a major confrontation between Sunni and Shia Islam.

and all that eventually started the Sunni insurgency, partly to protect the Sunni population from the Shia who

The problem is you have Shia versus Sunni.

The overwhelming population of Syria is Sunni Arab, which is the conventional mainstream Arab grouping, largely a very tolerant kind of Islam

And that is in a Sunni-Shia mixed area.

and the reversion to the Shiite Sunni schism, overlaid with tribal rivalries, overlaid

I wish we could get shiite and sunni to cooperate.

basically presented themselves to the Sunni community and they said we're the only thing that stands between you guys and Oblivion you know we'll fight back

school and started uh at Sunni purchase and learned how to write screenplays and and use that format and for many many

We have the split between Sunni and Shia in Islam, and we have the ramifications of that just as we have the ramifications of Christianity back in the 16th century.

And at times he allied with the Sunnis and tried to limit American and Iranian influence in the country.

It had the same elements as Sunningdale.

And that was like one of the sunnier stories.

Iraq without really understanding the difference between Sunnis and Shias.

You know, Sunni and Shia in Iraq used to get together a lot better than they did before the war, before we invaded.

Thank you, Sunni.

that the Ottoman Empire-- the green bit is Sunni, and the Safavid Empire, the red, pink, orange bit, is Shiite.

So the Kurds and a lot of the Sunni tribal leaders are, basically, of the mind that you can't trust Maliki.

Hello, I'm Sunni Yuen.

"Shia, Sunni, all same.

like what you might imagine you're a Sunni or a Shiite whatever that's Story number one story number two is that religion has a causitive effect that you

So this is really a story not about Sunniva Sorby or Anne Dal Vera or Ann Bancroft or Sue Giller.

And it doesn't necessarily mean just misery for Sunnis who are not of their extreme nature--

There's a bunch of people sitting out just sunning themselves, and we're passing by.

throwing flyers at all these people that are sunning themselves.

That it would be the Shiite versus the the Sunnis; the north versus the south.

just dead center in the Middle where the where the sunnis area is where they the people there only really support this

actually divide it uh uh because because the sunnis then have absolutely no oil

And it's because the internet coincided with two great waves of fundamentalism in the Sunni and Shia worlds, circa 1979,

So when we invaded Iraq, the Sunni minority had political and military control of the country

the Shia government-- the Shia forces sort of had free reign to really abuse the Sunni population.

or sects of Judaism, within Sunni Islam, which is about 80% of Muslims, there isn't a hierarchy.

the conversation saying you know tell me about American foreign policy Vis A Sunni

And complicating it is something I touched upon earlier is it's Sunni versus Shiite.