Anti-Sunnism

The Popular Mobilization Forces, also known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), is an Iranian-backed paramilitary umbrella group that operates within Iraq. Although formally and legally part of the Iraqi Armed Forces and reporting directly to the prime minister, PMF leaders act independently from state control, and in practice, answer to the supreme leader of Iran.

Shabiha (Levantine Arabic: ', ; also romanized Shabeeha or Shabbiha'''; ) is a colloquial and generally derogatory term for various loosely-organised Syrian militias loyal to the Ba'athist government and the Assad family prior to the regime's collapse in 2024, used particularly during the initial phase of the Syrian civil war. As the war evolved, many groups that had previously been considered shabiha were amalgamated into the National Defence Force (NDF) and other paramilitary groups.

thumb|The national flag of Iran|flag and emblem of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is widely used as a symbol to represent Khomeinism.

thumb|250x250px|One of the earliest manifestations of de-Ba'athification in Iraq was the destruction of imagery associated with Saddam Hussein '''De-Ba'athification (; sometimes called de-Saddamization''') refers to a policy undertaken in Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and subsequent Iraqi governments to remove the Iraqi Ba'ath Party's influence in the new Iraqi political system after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. It was considered by the CPA to be Ba'athist Iraq's equivalent to Nazi Germany's denazification after World War II. It was first outlined in CPA Order 1 which ent

thumb|222px|Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in [[Medina, where the Islamic prophet Muhammad and caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar are buried, is one of the holiest Sunni sites.]]

thumb|Abu Bakr (right) hiding in the cave near Jabal Thawr Bakriyya or Bakrism (Arabic: البكرية al-bakriyya, singular adherent and adjective Bakri) is an ambiguous Arabic term that can refer to one of three things. It originally referred to a small 7th-century group of hadith transmitters who promoted sayings about the supposed exalted qualities of Abu Bakr in response to proto-Shiite compilations about the qualities of Ali and his claim to lead all Muslims. This use of the term was employed by al-Nawbakhti, and al-Qummi.