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Most Shiite Chinese are considered Hui and many practice Taqiyya or religious dissimulation (basically they pretend to be Sunni in public) in order to avoid persecution. The Chinese government has often not been friendly with Shiite Muslims, believing them to be responsible for Muslim-on-Muslim Wars in Xinjiang (while, the Chinese government mistakenly believes that the Sunni Ghalchas and Uighurs are innocent in this matter). As a result, numbers are quite hard to come by.
In terms of general information, most Chinese Shiites are the Ismaili Tajiks of the Tashkurgan and Sariqul areas of Xinjiang. The Shias of the Imami branch are numerous in Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. Additionally, there are some Shiites who are recent immigrants from Iran, Lebanon, and other countries with large Shiite populations.
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How many shi'ites are there?
Approximately one of every five Muslims are Shia Muslims. so there are around 350,000 Shia Muslims in the world.
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70% of Iraq population are shia Muslims.
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shia Muslims are not Kafir. this is a propaganda made by some extremist Muslims who do Takfir. (Wahhabi Muslims)
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No, Shia constitute about 15% of total Muslims in the world.
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How many hazara shia Muslims in Pakistan?
maybe about 50 million
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The official religion or race of Iran is shia of course, where over 85% of the population is shia. While the rest are sunnis.
How were the Shiites significant to Operation Iraqi Freedom?
Shia Muslims leaded by ayatollah Sistani have high power and influence in Iraq and have ties with Iran shia Muslims. shia Muslims live in many countries. but shia Muslims mainly live in Iran. also Iraq, Bahrain, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and more. other Muslim countries are mainly sunni with minor shia population. Qum in Iran is main central city of Shia Islam. also Najaf in Iraq was in past a main city of Iran and also today.
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