Iraq attack: Baghdad suicide car bomb blast kills 35 – BBC News

See also alJazeera

Iraq: Dozens killed in petrol station suicide attack

See also Washington Post, BBC and The New York Times.

Shiites are participating in the world’s largest pilgrimage today. Here’s how they view the world.

In the Arab world, sectarianism is real, sects are not

Many dead in suicide attack on Iraq Shia – BBC News

See also al-Jazeera

Little girl prepares to have her scalp slashed open in Islamic ritual

See also Wall Street Journal (subscriber only)
The Evening Standard (UK)
Huffington Post
The Independant (UK)
[Seemingly larger amount of coverage in the Western media this year than in previous years. If others have urls of sites to be added to this list, do send them to me.-Ed.]

The myth and history of Sunni-Shia divide

Who Is a Sunni?: Chechnya Islamic Conference Opens Window on Intra-Faith Rivalry – Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington

See also James Dorsey’s Fighting for the Soul of Islam:A Battle of the Paymasters
See also Robert Fisk’s ‘For the first time, Saudi Arabia is being attacked by both Sunni and Shia leaders’
and Brian Whitaker’s ‘Robert Fisk and the Russian war on salafism’

From religion to politics, Saudi Arabia feeling chill of isolation

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Not Muslim