Elite Persuasion and Religious Extremism: A Study Among Sunni and Shia
Muslims in Northern India
Kunaal Sharma
2017 Columbia University PhD dissertation
Dozens of people have been killed in two separate attacks at Shia mosques in Afghanistan. In one attack, an armed man opened fire on worshippers in a Shia mosque in Kabul, police said on Friday. A man “entered the mosque in Police District 13 of Kabul city…
Members of Iraq’s Shia Turkmen community have been the targets of brutal persecution by so-called Islamic State (IS). One woman, who asked not to be named, told BBC Turkish’s Mahmut Hamsici about her ordeal at the hands of militants from the Sunni jihadist group.
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