Sunni or Shi`ite?

"Saleh Sabbagh was killed in the raging battles for Qusair in the Syrian province of Homs. The son of a Sunni father and a Shiite mother, Sabbagh had converted to Shiite Islam and joined Hezbollah years ago. His family, with the exception of his mother, insisted he be buried at a Sunni cemetery in Sidon. The attempt to bury him ... in the southern city was viewed as a provocative act by some and hundreds of angry supporters of controversial Sunni sheikh Ahmad Assir as well as a group of Salafists blocked the cemetery’s entrance with sandbags and burning tires. “His body should be thrown into the sea,” one protester said." (thanks Basim)