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The main difference between the Sunnites and the Shi'ites is on the question of Islamic leadership -- the caliphate or Imamate.
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The view on-the-ground in Iraq, among both Sunnis and Shi’ites, is worth noting.
‘Al-Qaeda WMD Video’ Was Nothing of the Sort « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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The protest was attended mostly by Shi'ites, which is noteworthy as Shi'ites have the most to gain by the U. S.-backed Shi'ite-dominated government.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: The Specter of a Zarqawi Takeover Is As False As Saddam's Mushroom Cloud 2008
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Recently one of Islamic Shi'ites 'most revered sites, the golden mosque at Samarra, was destroyed by sectarian enemies.
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"Keep it up, old man, as long as the 'ites' hold out," said Joe.
Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour Lester Chadwick
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The soul of the nation was uplifted above the squalid rivalries of the "'ites" and the "'isms."
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De w'ites 'snow is fallin' on de Rivière des Prairies!
The Voyageur and Other Poems William Henry Drummond 1880
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Friday's apparently coordinated attacks came in a two-hour span shortly after the Shi'ites 'call to prayer across the capital.
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Sure as hell looks like the John Birch society is back and in full scary force .... with splinter cells working all over America. .in the form of the KKK, The Tea Baggers, The White Supremacists, Scared Old White Folks, Birthers, Tenthers, (murdering for life) pro-lifers, The GOP, McCarthy - "ites", and the Corporations ..
Raw Story 2010
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Gone are most of the "ites" and "ates," the bewildering collection of chemical compounds widely used in the modern food industry to maintain taste, colour and shelf-life.
Market News 2010
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