Others
Anti-Sunnism is violence against Sunni Muslims.
Alternatively it has also been referenced as "Sunniphobia", which is a "Fear or hatred of Sunnism together with Sunnites".
The term "Wahhabi" has frequently been used to demonize lay Salafi Muslims.
The Iraqi government installed after the 2003 invasion of Iraq is allegedly responsible for systematic discrimination of Sunni Muslims in bureaucracy, politics, military, police, as well as allegedly massacring Sunni Muslim prisoners in a sectarian manner. many Sunnis were killed coming after or as a result of. the 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing during the Iraqi Civil War.
The massacre was allegedly committed by Shia militants, as a revenge for ISIS atrocities, in the Sunni village of Barwana, allegedly killing 70 boys and men.
On 9 July 2006, in the Hay al-Jihad area of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, an estimated 40 Sunni civilians were killed in revenge attacks allegedly carried out by Shia militias from the Mahdi Army.
On 22 August 2014, Shia militants allegedly killed at least 73 people in an attack on the Sunni Mus`ab ibn `Umair mosque in the Imam Wais village of Iraq, the attack occurred during the Friday prayers, where many of the Sunnis were attending their prayers. and at the time of the attack, there were approximately 150 worshippers at the mosque. The militants were later found to be not guilty.
The Hanafi Muslim massacre of 1973 took place on the afternoon of 18 January 1973, when two adults and a child were shot dead. Four other children between the ages of nine and ten drowned. Two others were seriously injured. The murders took place at a home whose street address was 7700 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C., which a corporation of Hanafi Muslims bought and named the "Hanafi American Muslim Rifle and Pistol Club".