I therefore strongly advocate the formation of a local capital but not at Hillah, which is too Sunni and near Baghdad

members […] came to view themselves collectively as the righteous descendants of Husayn confronting an evil and fundamentally alien ruler: a shah more Zoroastrian than Muslim, more Sunni than Shi'i, more Arab than Iranian, more Yazid than Husayn.

Many Shias who had become more Sunni in their religious practices reverted back to their original sect.

In Islam, Sunni is a more triumphant version of the faith than Shia, which stresses the importance of suffering, following the founder Ali, who was persecuted.

Sunni has four schools of Islamic doctrine and law — Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali — which uniquely interpret the Hadith, or recorded oral traditions of Muhammad.

Sunni is the mainstream religion, based in Mecca, and is generally more moderate.

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