And um you know...It's not Sunnis versus Shiites.

这不是逊尼派和什叶派的较劲。

Well, there just haven't been enough Sunnis participating in the fight against ISIS.

目前并没有多少逊尼派参与打击ISIS的斗争。

Why this focus, though, on the Sunnis?

为什么这次重点帮助逊尼派？

He will also have to persuade Iraqi Sunnis and Kurds to support his new government in Baghdad.

他还将必须劝说伊拉克逊尼派和库尔德来支持他的巴格达新政府。

But Sunnis who fight back against IS have also been suffered.

但与IS作战的逊尼派也受到袭击。

There have also been retaliatory attacks by the Shia against the Sunnis.

还有什叶派与逊尼派之间的报复性袭击。

Hence the beginning of a sectarian cleansing of Sunnis from some coastal towns.

也正因为这样，一些沿海城镇开始对逊尼派展开宗派清理。

Many of the nations out here have mixes of Sunnis and Shiites in them.

而在这里的很多国家既有逊尼派也有什叶派。

So Sufism is considered a minority sect, so to speak. And most Egyptians are Sunnis.

可以说，苏菲教派被看作少数教派。大部分埃及人是逊尼派。

Shia and Sunni Islam. Sunnis make up about 80% of the Muslim world, and Shia about 20%.

什叶和逊尼穆斯林。逊尼派组成大约穆斯林世界的百分之八十，而什叶派大约百分之二十。

Hizballah fighters together with Iran had played a key role in president Assad's campaign against Sunnis rebels.

在协助阿萨德政府对抗逊尼叛军上，真主党和伊朗起到了至关重要的作用。

But 70 percent of the attendees were Sunnis that had been displaced by other conflicts in other cities.

出席者中有70%是逊尼派，而这些人经常因其他城市发生的冲突而流离失所。

Since the U.S. left Iraq, the Shia prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has monopolized power and discriminated against Sunnis wherever possible.

自美国离开伊拉克后，什叶派的总理 Nouri al-Maliki 已经独揽权力并竭尽所能四处排挤逊尼派。

It was the Sunnis who started that war.

这场战争是逊尼派发动的。

For months, Iraq’s minority Sunnis have staged anti-government demonstrations.

数月来，伊拉克少数民族逊尼派举行了反政府示威活动。

But when the United States toppled Saddam Hussein, they also threw the Sunnis out of their positions.

但当美国推翻萨达姆·侯赛因时，他们也把逊尼派赶出了自己的位置。

The until-then-suppressed Shia majority took over and began oppressing the Sunnis because suppressing other faiths proven to be such a good idea.

直到当时都被打压的什叶多数派继任，并开始压迫逊尼派，因为打压其他信仰证明是这么一个好点子。

Now with ISIS largely gone, the familiar ethnic schisms have resurfaced among the majority-Shi'ite population, the once powerful Sunnis and the minority Kurds.

如今，ISIS大部分都被赶走了，然而，熟悉的种族分裂思想又在这个以什叶派为多数，以逊尼派为强势派和以库尔德人为少数派的国家抬头了。

Well, some say having the trainers in Anbar might bring in some more Sunnis to help fight ISIS. That's a very good thing.

一些人表示，向安巴尔省增派军事训练人员可能使更多的逊尼派加入打击ISIS的战斗中。这点非常好。

Iraq's Sunnis similarly enjoyed most of the key positionsin the military and in government under Saddam Hussein.

伊拉克的逊尼派同样在萨达姆·侯赛因领导下的军队和政府中享有大部分关键职位。