Shias say that last month's attacks by vandals in the American city of Detroit on two Shia community centres and some Shia-owned businesses were sectarian.

什叶派宣称，上个月发生在美国底特律市的针对两个什叶派社区中心以及一些什叶派信徒所有的生意活动的故意袭击是宗派行为。

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The capture of power by Iraq's long-oppressed Shias is perceived as having, for the first time in history, removed the main Arab bulwark against Persian expansion.

伊拉克长期受到压迫的什叶派夺取了权力这一事实被视为有史以来第一次拔除了阿拉伯抵抗波斯扩张的主要壁垒。

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Thousands of people, mainly Shias, have not got their jobs back after being sacked for supporting the protests, despite the king's pledge that most would be reinstated.

成千上万因支持反对派而被解雇的民众(主要是什叶派)至今未能重返工作岗位，尽管此前国王已作出复职承诺。

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The brief uprising they crushed was not the first time Shias had attacked the Baathist regime.

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But outside pressure on Hizbullah to disarm has recently coincided with growing dissent among Shias themselves.

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Many Shias, not just Sunnis, suspect federalism of being an American-Kurdish plot to break up Iraq.

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