anti-Sunnism

anti-Sunnism

English

Noun

anti-Sunnism (uncountable)

1. Prejudice, discrimination or hostility directed against Sunnis
   • 2013, Raphael Lefevre, Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria - Page 72

     the secularism of the Ba'ath and the supposed anti-Sunnism of Hafiz alAssad

   • 2004, Phyllis Jestice, Holy People of the World: A Cross-cultural Encyclopedia - Page 533

     His strident anti-Sunnism roused the Sunnis in Afghanistan to action that eventually led to the overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and the coming to power of a Sunni Afghan in Iran.

   • 2011, Meir Litvak, The Sunna and Shi'a in History

     His emphasis on the plight of the Mustaz'afin or “miserable ones” belonged to the realm of economics and anti-imperialism, not to the realm of religion and anti-Sunnism

Synonyms

• Sunniphobia