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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Boko Haram; How Muslims of Nigeria View it?
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Boko Haram; How Muslims of Nigeria View it?

Sunday 14 August 2016
Sheikh Ibrahim  Yaqoub El Zakzaky, the leader of Shiites of the country and also head of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, argued that the attacks that were conducted under the name of Boko Haram in the country were in fact part of an accurate and well-designed plan by the oil-thirsty West which ...
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First Lady Belongs in Kitchen: Nigerian President
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First Lady Belongs in Kitchen: Nigerian President

Saturday 15 October 2016 ،
Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky along with his wife. Sheikh Zakzay has been under torture since then and his wife says he is losing one of his eyes due to improper health conditions in prison.
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Nigerian Ex-Minister Detained over Financial Corruption
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Nigerian Ex-Minister Detained over Financial Corruption

Wednesday 19 October 2016 ،
Sheikh Zakzaky was the latest example of such violations.   
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Nigerian Shiite Minority Rejects President’s Claim, Accuses Army of HR Violation
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Nigerian Shiite Minority Rejects President’s Claim, Accuses Army of HR Violation

Sunday 1 January 2017 ،
Sheikh Zakzaky. The outspoken Muslim cleric was later brutally tortured in prison losing sight of one of his eyes. The country’s higher court later rejected the arrest as unconstitutional and ordered his release. Thought the government initially released the leader, they later relocated him t ...
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Nigerian Regime Ignores Court Order to Release Sheikh El-Zakzaky
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Nigerian Regime Ignores Court Order to Release Sheikh El-Zakzaky

Sunday 22 January 2017 ،
Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. Alwaght-The Nigerian government has blatantly defied a court order given by the country's high court calling for the release of Islamic movement leader Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. On 2 December, 2016 the Federal High Court in Abuja ruled that Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky ...
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What Causes Muslims Massacres in Nigeria, Myanmar?
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What Causes Muslims Massacres in Nigeria, Myanmar?

Saturday 1 April 2017 ،
Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub El Zakzaky to stop enlargement of pro-Iranian Shiite population community in the country. The incitement fueled Muslim-Christian conflict in Nigeria, that later spilled over to other African countries. People who lived in peaceful coexistence for centuries in African in recent ...
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Nigerian Muslims Pile Pressure on Govt. to Release Sheikh Zakzaky
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Nigerian Muslims Pile Pressure on Govt. to Release Sheikh Zakzaky

Monday 24 April 2017 ،
Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. Alwaght- The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, continues to pile pressure on the government to release the movement’s leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat Ibrahim. In a statement on Sunday, INM’s spokesperson Ibrahim Musa has said that t ...
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How Wahhabism Serves Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy?
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How Wahhabism Serves Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy?

Wednesday 16 August 2017 ،
Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, the vocal Shiite cleric, when anti-regime protests sparked in Eastern Province of the kingdom. In October 2014, he was convicted of jeopardizing the national security and sentenced to death by sword and exposure to public. His execution was carried out on 2 January 2016. T ...
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Nigeria in Crackdown on Shiite Muslims’ Muharram Ceremonies
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Nigeria in Crackdown on Shiite Muslims’ Muharram Ceremonies

Tuesday 26 September 2017 ،
Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife were shot and badly wounded and thereafter detained by Nigerian security agencies. They are still being held incommunicado by security forces with their health rapidly deteriorating. The massacre and continued persecution of INM members continues amid a deafening silence ...
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Shiites in Nigeria: Brief History
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Shiites in Nigeria: Brief History

Monday 12 February 2018 ،
Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky is the spiritual leader of the Shiite community in the country. The 64-year-old cleric is from Zaria, a city in northern Nigeria. He came from a Maliki Sunni family but later embraced Shiite Islam. From 1971 to 1975, he moved to the city of Kano for higher education in socio-p ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.