Yet as with most religions, the specific rules of Buddhism vary widely from sect to sect.
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Traditions within religions themselves can also be incredibly diverse, too, varying from sect to sect and country to country.
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Mr. Adityanath rose to power because of his association with the Gorakhnath sect, a 22002,258-year-old Hindu sect with its headquarters in Gorakhpur.
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Ohio prosecutors, for example, charged members of a breakaway Amish sect with hate crimes after they violently cut off the beards of a rival sect.
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And sometimes, drivers who were not sect members were cited for traffic violations that did not result in citations against drivers who were part of the sect.
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"There are, of course, supporters of the regime from the Alawite sect, like there are from any other sect," Ms. Suleiman told the news network Al Jazeera in 2011.
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And therefore every sect that has ever flourished has benefited Humanity, for the errors of a sect pass away and are forgotten; its truths are received into the common inheritance.
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People had elected the same politicians over and over despite knowing of their corruption because, well, it's better if one's own sect leaders were stealing than leaving the money to another sect.
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"I'm against voting based on sect," said student Ali Reda.
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The newcomers belonged to a particularly punitive sect of Mennonites.
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"NO TO RELIGION or sect," cry the protesters in Iraq.
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Some Orthodox scholars view Jehovah's Witnesses as a 'totalitarian sect'.
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This arrangement has kept any one sect from assuming hegemony; but it also ensures, by pitting each sect against the others in a zero-sum race for political spoils, that they will continue trying.
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The six family members, however, belonged to Sunni sect, Iftikhar said.
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A great party is in danger of becoming a fanatical sect.
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The Alawites are a minority sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.
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It's a rare moment in Lebanon when country comes before sect.
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"We have no real hard rules in my sect," says Fujioka.
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Two worshipers were killed, sending shock waves through the tiny sect.
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"I started carrying out assignments given by the sect," he said.
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But the conflict is less about one Christian sect against another.
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The ruthless campaign, however, has significantly weakened, but not destroyed, the sect.
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Outside Western boardrooms, the most common sect is the fifth, corporate socialists.
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The main government jobs are still dished out by sect and ethnicity.
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It was the latest in a series of incidents involving the sect.
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Demonstrations have been put down with force and some sect leaders executed.
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Many of YouTube's popular sect of gamers have also contributed to #TeamTrees.
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Iran's majority Shiite population is represented in government by its own sect.
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If you can, you're probably in an elite sect of tennis fans.
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But for a certain sect of designers, more is not necessarily better.
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Some Orthodox members believe Jehovah's Witnesses are a "totalitarian sect," Reuters reported.
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Wayman, whose husband was among the FLDS leaders arrested and jailed last month, apparently has not yet left the sect, although her days in the FLDS may surely be numbered once her statement is known to sect leaders.
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"We can handle the COVID-19 situation as soon as possible only when we forcefully investigate the twelve branch heads of the Shincheonji sect along with Lee Man Hee, the Chairman of the sect," Park said on Facebook.
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During the final days of the trial, federal agents raided businesses in Hildale and arrested 11 sect leaders and their associates, accusing them of siphoning millions of dollars in food-stamp transactions to bank accounts managed by the sect.
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But the group, which the government calls a sect, is regarded with suspicion.
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The violence was the latest in a series of incidents involving the sect.
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That put them on opposite sides of various conflicts, often divided by sect.
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The post is reserved for his sect under Lebanon's sectarian system of rule.
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"Before the revolution, we never had this feeling toward any sect," he said.
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One of the most prominent acts in this sub-sect is Nude Terror.
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Singh, a guru, is revered by followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect.
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Instead, we take a look at an 1840s Christian sect called the Millerites.
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Under the country's unique system, government posts are shared out based on sect.
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Months after she first made contact, I decided to join her matriarchal sect.
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The sect has seen legal troubles in the past—pretty damn big ones.
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The initiative, despite sounding like an sub-illuminati sect, isn't without positive intent.
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The names of its members were each followed by their sect and ethnicity.
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The cadets were predominantly from the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
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There were, first, a series of social movements: There was the Clapham sect.
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The leaders belonged to a tough, power-hungry religious sect based in Algeria.
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Mr. Jiang has also represented members of Falun Gong, a banned spiritual sect.
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Ann Lee joined the Shaker movement, a pacifist sect of Christianity, in 1758.
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Mr. Salam, who died in 1996, belonged to the Ahmadi (or Ahmadiyya) sect.
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"He said that he did all this because he belonged to the Shia sect and because he was against the Sunni sect, and because of his hate for the state and its men and its security forces," the court report said.
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Interviews with community members revealed that the sect began practicing rituals more than three months ago, Mr. Baloyes said, though the kidnapping and torture started only last Saturday, when a sect member claimed to have received a message from God.
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Then there was a Swiss sect called the Raëlians, who claimed success in 2002.
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In a city divided by sect and class, they also lead to unexpected encounters.
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Members of the sect had surrounded the Communist Party headquarters in Beijing in 1999.
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Time and again, the sect has targeted educational institutions, and girls' schools in particular.
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Its demographics are rapidly shifting as former sect members seem to outnumber FLDS followers.
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"Egypt is Sunni by sect, but Shia by temperament," is an oft-cited saying.
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It makes working at Facebook sound a lot like a messianic sect circle-jerk.
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Jobs are handed out by sect and ethnicity, not merit, and ministries are plundered.
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Fars news agency reported that the driver was a member of the Sufi sect.
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The family, from the Sufi Muslim sect, said they had suffered under the jihadists.
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Sect members, however, did not receive any eligible food products in return, prosecutors said.
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People from one sect or political group often discount or excuse casualties from another.
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"Shamanism is officially recognised and is not considered a sect or cult," Ivanova explains.
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Top positions in Lebanon are allocated by religious sect in a delicate balancing act.
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Parliamentary seats were divided between Muslims and Christians, and then sectioned off by sect.
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He has also represented practitioners of Falun Gong, a religious sect banned in China.
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Walid Jumblatt has demanded all three of the cabinet seats reserved for his sect.
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Russian authorities have painted the group as a dangerous sect that will destroy families.
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"We can handle the COVID-19 situation as soon as possible only when we forcefully investigate the twelve branch heads of the Shincheonji sect along with Lee Man Hee, the Chairman of the sect," Park said in his Facebook post on Sunday.
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Officially the government welcomes the return of displaced Syrians, regardless of their religion or sect.
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Adventists are a Christian sect that observe the Sabbath from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown.
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And he comes from a sect of Islam, Ahmadiyya, that has faced persecution and violence.
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In response to the provocation Jiang Zemin, China's then president, vowed to eradicate the sect.
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As states fail, youth identify more with their religion, sect or tribe than their country.
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His foreign minister was an Ahmadi, another small sect that some Muslims regard as heretical.
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The documentary will also feature interviews with nine surviving members of the Branch Davidian sect.
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In many instances, state-sponsored violence has targeted communities already victimized by the Islamist sect.
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Missouri's constitution prohibits "any church, sect or denomination of religion" from receiving state taxpayer money.
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He said members of a Hindu sect often went into the park to sacrifice chickens.
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The following day the army said it had raided several buildings connected to the sect.
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The Shi'ite sect has previously said up to 1,000 of its members had been killed.
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The trial was one of two actions the authorities have taken recently against the sect.
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Mr. Choi was the founder of an obscure sect called the Church of Eternal Life.
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The sect is based in the twin cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona.
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After Mr. Zaharan's followers attacked worshipers of the Sufi sect, he evaded arrest and disappeared.
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I've come to call this massive and dangerous sect the Cult of the Shining City.
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The new coffee chain would operate as a smaller sect of the larger McDonald's franchise.
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But the new set-up has allowed parties based on ethnicity and sect to dominate.
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Notionally united by religion, it was divided by almost everything else: class, sect, language, ethnicity.
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The case involved an Amish sect in the rural community of Bergholz, southeast of Cleveland.
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Jessop and other former sect members hail the changes as long-overdue progress that will help the community break free from the reign of sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving life in prison in Texas for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered brides.
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The protesters are members of a sect that worships Dorje Shugden, a deity in Tibetan Buddhism.
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There have been riots in Kaduna between a Shi'ite Muslim sect and the majority Sunni population.
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The flare-ups reported so far have pitted rivals from the same sect against each other.
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Bring back Soulja Boy that made a whole sect of his SODMG crew strictly for gaming.
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Her daughter, India Oxenberg, was previously a subject of the NXIVM sect, led by Keith Raniere.
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It was there, in Brooklyn, where he first launched a sect called the Ansaru Allah Community.
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In addition, Jeffs enforced a full ban on toys in 2011 for those in the sect.
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Seized from her school, she is brought to a terrorist camp and inducted into "the Sect".
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Or if a particularly enthusiastic sect of Reddit theorists are to be believed, another ice monster?
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She wore the sect&aposs traditional prairie dresses and her hair in a conservative up-do.
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The Ahmadis are a sect who revere both the Prophet Muhammad and a 19th-century messiah.
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The Yazidis are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions.
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They go after anybody, any sect that might compete with the communist, atheistic government of China.
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Its shrine of Imam Ali, founder of the Shia sect, attracts millions of pilgrims a year.
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The European Court of Human Rights had vindicated the sect in a couple of key judgments.
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The hope that Stonewall birthed lives on in at least one sect of the queer community.
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With luck, a more normal Iraqi politics will emerge, based on policies and competence, not sect.
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A Danish follower of the sect in the same city has been jailed for six years.
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The aftermath of clashes between police and members of a cultish religious sect in Mathura, India.
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"Ex-Hasid's death bares anguish of leaving ultra-Orthodox sect," read one New York Post headline.
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Nearly all adhere to the highly conservative Deobandi sect, whose beliefs are similar to Saudi Wahhabism.
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He is the spiritual leader of Dera Sacha Sauda, a controversial spiritual sect founded in 1948.
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Singh is the spiritual leader of Dera Sacha Sauda, a controversial spiritual sect founded in 1948.
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It explores the Aghori sect of Hinduism which is known for its extreme, almost cannibalistic, rituals.
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They were, in essence, the first faith-based apocalyptic sect to take charge of a country.
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We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone.
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The Yazidi are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions.
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The indictment also included Seth Jeffs, another brother who runs an FLDS sect in South Dakota.
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For the next few weeks, the most influential force in British politics is a fanatical sect.
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The rabbi who formed the sect, Shlomo Helbrans, relocated them to a Brooklyn yeshiva in 1990.
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One claimed that vaccines were part of the world domination plan of the Illuminati secret sect.
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Sheriff Mace said he did not know exactly how many people were members of the sect.
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Some think I must be slightly weird, perhaps part of some strange religious sect — or pregnant.
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Politicians claimed it would allow independent and civil society groups to compete against sect-based parties.
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The Bledsoes didn't notice that their son was being introduced to an extremist sect of Islam.
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There'd probably be a small magazine where the doctrines of your sect would be hammered out.
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All of them are dual US-Mexican citizens, and all members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect.
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The prison is known to house adherents of Falun Gong, a spiritual sect outlawed in China.
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A similar altercation between the sect and the army occurred last year during a pilgrim procession.
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While to her it's simply her community, outsiders often consider Jehovah's Witnesses close to a religious sect.
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Throughout its history, the Brotherhood has been resolutely Sunni, the dominant religious sect in the Middle East.
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He was raised Plymouth Brethren, a fundamentalist Christian sect that forbids activities like attending movies and dancing.
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Mr Li fled to America a couple of years before the sect was banned, and remains active.
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His religious sect, which he called The Work, operated with impunity for years under his strict control.
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"Medina is sacred to every Muslim sect and we all feel extremely protective of it," she said.
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The sect is a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism, which disavowed polygamy more than 100 years ago.
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For example, parliamentary candidates could be allowed to run without having to name their religion or sect.
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Rumors were spreading about the boxer's close friendship with Malcolm X, a leader in the controversial sect.
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As a result, members of the sect have been persecuted in several countries, particularly Pakistan and Indonesia.
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It's a Benedictine monastery, a sect that's long espoused traditions of growing, cooking, and eating food together.
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His sect claims it has over 5,000 volunteers and conducts more than 40,000 events across the world.
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The defendants are all a part of the Dawoodi Bohra community, which is an Indian Islamic sect.
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People are given jobs in ministries based on patronage and sect, not competence, and corruption is rampant.
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His family was Plymouth Brethren, a fundamentalist Christian sect that forbade dancing and going to the movies.
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She and her family are members of the ethnic Yazidi sect that has been targeted by ISIS.
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Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian security forces of leading a crackdown on members of the sect.
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Jains, who number about six million, are a powerful and prosperous sect, dominant in India's diamond industry.
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Chhatrapati's paper had published a letter that helped expose the sexual abuse of women within Singh's sect.
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He turned to Islam and the Sufi sect, which he said helped lend purpose to his life.
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"Just as the Ganges flows freely, so, too, lovers of any caste, creed and sect," he said.
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Since the crash, it's been tempting to see suit-wearers as a devilish sub-sect of humanity.
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His multinational religious sect attracted young Japanese elite who had grown disenchanted with the country's material prosperity.
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The family, which was well off, belonged to the often persecuted Druze sect, a non-Islamic religion.
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The sect claims to have about 50 million followers and campaigns for vegetarianism and against drug addiction.
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As the fourth season begins, a Vatican sect unearths a map leading to the library's four cornerstones.
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The members of this internet subculture are not simply a perverse sect occupying the recesses of the internet.
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Well, as we have seen, a certain sect of Trump's fans has viciously attacked critics on his behalf.
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There's an immediate sect of decisions in a city that's far more intimate than other spheres of government.
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The fighting resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and half a dozen members of the sect.
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There a heavy-handed crackdown helped transform a radical religious sect into one of Africa's deadliest terror groups.
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Former sect members and outsiders consider him a dangerous man who tore apart families and committed sex crimes.
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Only a decree from Mr Modi's government can officially elevate Lingayatism from a mere sect into a religion.
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Much more recently, the sect has faced criminal charges in countries ranging from communist Cuba to capitalist Singapore.
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Some of the Shi'ite Zaydi sect, who ruled the north until 1962, chafed as their heartland became impoverished.
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The towns are home to a sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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They had gathered in front of a police station, demanding the release of some members of their sect.
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Stephen and Amy joined the new sect, which embraced the internet as a means of spreading the gospel.
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"There will be no preaching of hate speech of any kind against any religion or sect," he said.
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Chinese authorities have issued warnings to Christian pastors, explaining the threat posed to their congregations by the sect.
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His strength is largely limited to areas where there is a strong presence of his minority Alawite sect.
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Kiryas Joel was founded in the 1970s by Joel Teitelbaum, the grand rebbe of the Satmar Hasidic sect.
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Insiders say the celebrity-centered religious sect deeply influenced how Adam Neumann ran WeWork before its spectacular collapse.
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Kaduna officials, made up like Buhari and other northern elites of Sunnis, see the sect as security threat.
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We might assume that we're in the territory of the Branch Davidians or a polygamous quasi-Mormon sect.
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The paladin are a sect of holy knights whose might is rooted in the use of divine magic.
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"They told us we were infidels and that our sect needed to become Islamic," Ms. Haji Hamid testified.
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Our guitarist suggested Red Mollusk Sect, because we cover Blue Oyster Cult, but it's too hard to say.
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He also claimed Trippie Redd was a gang member, but from a rival Bloods sect from Nine Trey.
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Since the early 1955th century, almost every chief rabbi of the sect has been esteemed for composing music.
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Lev Tahor, which translates to "pure heart" in Hebrew, is an offshoot of an anti-Zionist Hasidic sect.
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They are members of the Ahmadiyya community, a relatively small Islamic sect that some orthodox Muslims consider heretics.
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The owner and chef, Gazala Halavi, is Druze, a sect with communities in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
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Much of the epidemic in South Korea, for instance, was uniquely driven by transmission within a religious sect.
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Their families belong to a small Shiite Muslim sect, the Dawoodi Bohra, that is originally from western India.
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Lebanon is governed according to a sectarian political system that parcels out state positions according to religious sect.
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In "Masters of Atlantis," two men found a sect based on wisdom from the lost city of Atlantis.
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Leaders of the Satmar Hasidic sect, which has its urban base in the Williamsburg neighborhood, endorsed Mrs. Clinton.
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While some two-thirds of Americans describe themselves as Christians, a declining number identify with any specific sect.
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No, but the majority of us belong to a Hindu sect called Varkari, who worship the god Vitthal.
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In front of the vocal travelling sect of Meek's "Valhalla Army," Meek will finally make his UFC bow.
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The Orthodox Church has campaigned for years against Jehovah's Witnesses, a rival it views as a heretical sect.
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In the mid-1970s, reports of a fanatical religious sect known as The Move began to reach the mainstream.
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A&E's Escaping Polygamy followed a group of women looking to distance themselves from a polygamist sect in Utah.
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Reuters found that the sect had become a key instrument in China's campaign to discredit the Tibetan spiritual leader.
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There's no doubt, he said, that a small sect of the world's Muslims are hellbent on terrorism and destruction.
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The monk and the Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha sect, to which he belongs, oppose the rule, Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
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Their crime, say prosecutors, was to have bankrolled the Gulen movement, a religious sect accused of masterminding the coup.
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A curfew was imposed in Rohtak and in Sirsa town, where the guru's Dera Sacha Sauda sect is based.
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For decades, Green and her husband, James Green, reigned over the New Mexico-based religious sect they co-founded.
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The data show that Maronite Catholics, once the largest sect in Lebanon, now make up only 21% of voters.
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People in Hildale who aren&apost part of the sect have concerns about how fair the election will be.
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Ready-to-wear isn't the only sect of the fashion industry that's pushing itself towards being more size-inclusive.
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The worshippers in Bir al-Abed were Sufis, followers of a mystical sect that many Muslim extremists consider heretical.
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At the end of July, Oaklands farm near Alton hosted Jalsa Salana, the worldwide convention of the Ahmadiyya sect.
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For a certain sect of mostly young and wealthy Americans, the allure of Uber is hard to pass up.
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On Monday, clashes between Congolese security forces and anti-government sect Bundu dia Kongo killed at least 14 people.
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Now—regardless of what sect they belong to—there's finally a place for all those clowns to get together.
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Warren Jeffs took the reins of the sect in 2002 after the death of his father, the church's founder.
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Led by a reclusive Turkish-born, American-based cleric, Fethullah Gulen, the sect preaches democracy, interfaith dialogue and education.
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Three years earlier the sect had been declared "non-Muslim" by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government.
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He was formally ordained a saint at 18, renouncing worldly pursuits, and became president of the sect in 1950.
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At no other time has sectarianism in Iraq been so hardened, with communities even of the same sect fragmented.
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Technically, citizens are free to practise religion freely, as long as their sect is officially sanctioned by the government.
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The Druze, a religious sect spread throughout Israel, Lebanon and Syria, make up a subset of Israel's Arab population.
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The group initially won over Sunni supporters because that sect felt marginalized by the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad.
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The Western tendency to deal with the same behavior differently depending on the sect involved is hypocritical and dangerous.
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Amnesty said that more than 350 Shiites were killed by soldiers who launched an attack on the sect members.
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He belonged to the Shiite Muslim sect, which has been targeted by extremist Sunni Muslim groups in the past.
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The Society of Friends (Quakers) was a nonconforming sect championing social ethics rooted in the biblical ideal of love.
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Members of the sect, like those killed and kidnapped, are from a remote indigenous community on the Caribbean coast.
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Georgi's father, Soslan, had helped found a pacifist religious sect in North Ossetia, a Russian province that borders Georgia.
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Known as the "guru of bling," he leads the Dera Sacha Sauda sect, which claims 60 million adherents worldwide.
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In the meantime, they behaved like an endogamous sect, finding husbands, wives and lovers within their own incestuous milieu.
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And Iraq's neighbors will line up behind whichever sect they support, reinforcing a zero-sum mentality in Iraq itself.
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It was described as a "Sanskrit sect" by The New York Times, while critics derided it as a cult.
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They also came just five days after the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, a Shi'ite sect, was declared illegal by authorities.
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Mary Magdalene takes a gently feminist perspective on the early days of the Jewish sect that would eventually become Christianity.
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In Islam, the divinity and infallibility of the Quran is the only thing that every sect and denomination agrees on.
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He chose to turn the PP's broad church into an ideological sect, purging moderates and bringing in an inexperienced team.
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Mainstream Christian churches are suspicious of the Witnesses because the sect is at odds with them over certain key doctrines.
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The accused are all Dawoodi Bohra, a small sect of Shia Islam led by a religious leader based in India.
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A spokesman for the sect, Ibraheem Musa, said its members were not going to be intimidated into resorting to violence.
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Incoherence aside, it played with a certain sect of dog whistle aficionados and everyone else mostly tuned him out because.
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Warren Jeffs continues to hold sway over the sect from prison, according to testimony at the civil trial in Phoenix.
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We now talk of atheists being protected by the First Amendment as if their "sect" were a "religion-less" religion.
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Still, Mr. Allen structures the revelations well, with a slow build that mimics a naïve member's immersion into the sect.
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President-elect Trump should broaden the U.S. terror designation to all groups that commit acts of violence, regardless of sect.
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"These days, young people don't go to temples anymore," says Yoshinobu Fujioka, a practicing member of the Jōdo Shinshū sect.
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In the seventeen-fifties, he accumulated thousands of followers among the Sabbateans, the messianic Jewish sect to which he belonged.
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Its original inhabitants were not Palestinians, but Arabs from the Druze sect who mostly retained Syrian citizenship and avoided politics.
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They began targeting the Shia sect, saying that they were not true believers, that they had rejected the true faith.
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He was convicted of raping two women at the headquarters of his sect, in a case that dates to 2002.
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Here, feuding among leaders of the Hoa Hao, the region's largest religious sect, left followers free to vote their conscience.
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Tens of thousands of supporters of the sect leader had camped in Panchkula for days waiting for Friday's court verdict.
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Police said two other people were killed in the town of Sirsa, where the headquarters of the sect is located.
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The Shakers provide a foil, since they believed in gender equality and women were founders and leaders of the sect.
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But what makes this worse is the sect of try-hards who live to wag their fingers at your cellphone use.
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A fundamentalist sect of Mormons settled in southeastern British Columbia during renowned ghost-consulter Mackenzie King's third stint as prime minister.
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But after he met members of the Ahmadiyya community, Ali said that sect of Islam made the most sense to him.
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The beatings inside the Word of Life Christian Church have provoked suspicion that the religious sect is actually a destructive cult.
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"In the past each sect used to sit in separate corners of the parliamentary canteen," says a Sunni MP from Mosul.
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One of the few things Iraq's politicians agree on is that plum jobs should continue to be handed out by sect.
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Several neighbors tell PEOPLE they had figured the secretive sect was a cult, but were never able to confirm their suspicions.
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Mr Blackmore was excommunicated in 2002 from a fundamentalist sect of American polygamists in whose ranks he had served as "bishop".
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He emerged as a leader of the country's Sunni sect, and became mired in political battles with Hezbollah and its allies.
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The PRB is the political arm of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), Brazil's second-biggest Protestant sect.
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Mr Slezkine describes the Bolsheviks as a millenarian sect that promised to "drain the swamp" and build a kingdom of justice.
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Soon pulled under the harsh scrutiny of a police investigation, the little-known religious sect was revealed as a dangerous cult.
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He said the town can function well even if some of the candidates who aren&apost part of the sect win.
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They are accused of comingling food stamp benefits and distributing purchased items in accordance with a member's rank in the sect.
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In both France and Germany, authorities baulked for many years at recognising the sect as a religion but eventually did so.
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Yazidis are of Kurdish descent, and their religion is considered a pre-Islamic sect that draws from Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism.
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Both girls, their parents and the three defendants are members of the Dawoodi Bohra Islamic sect, according to the criminal complaint.
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If sectarian tensions persist, Iraqi officials say, the country will fail to unite and could even be partitioned based on sect.
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The Druze sect is allocated eight of the 128 seats in parliament, which are divided evenly between Christian and Muslim sects.
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Now the doomsday sect known as Eastern Lightning is back in the spotlight after a six-month investigation by Chinese authorities.
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But in the 240s, Gulen formed a sect of his own that people later called "Gulen Camaati" (Gulen community or movement).
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Along with Swift's Identity crowd and Bowers's White Knights, there was at least one more, wackier sect in play here, right?
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This is, quite honestly, ignorance of religion that has caused fear and an outright attack on this particular sect of Muslims.
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Today's jihadists can also be cast in an unflattering light by drawing parallels with an extremist sect from Islam's earliest days.
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The proximate cause is a dispute over cabinet posts, which are divvied up between political blocs based on sect and ethnicity.
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The guru's death was confirmed by Jayesh Mandanka, a spokesman for the sect, Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, known as BAPS.
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Over the course of a century, socialism in America transformed from mass movement to die-hard sect to an eccentric hobby.
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There's this one group from Toronto, The Saffron Sect, that we've played with a couple of times who are just incredible.
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The footage used includes recordings of religious masses, sessions of baptism, and music videos of The Light of the World sect.
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But what we know for [sure] is, that many families that had relatives in that sect haven't seen them back yet.
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Mr. Chekkouri is a Sufi, a member of a mystical Islamic sect that has been oppressed by Al Qaeda and others.
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Insiders told Business Insider that a celebrity-centered religious sect deeply influenced how Adam Neumann ran WeWork before its spectacular collapse.
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Nine surviving members of the sect are interviewed, as well as members of the F.B.I. who were involved in the siege.
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They were of great concern in particular to the 13th-century Japanese master, Shinran, the founder of the Jodo Shinshu sect.
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He had spent 27 years as a Buddhist monk and founded a reformist Buddhist sect that is still practised in Thailand.
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In Lebanon, Maronites, who recognize the pope's authority but use an Eastern liturgy, are the most populous and powerful Christian sect.
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For the Dawoodi Bohra sect, which encourages education, particularly on a path toward medical and engineering professions, cutting increasingly generates debate.
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There is no entity called Iraq to which citizens feel loyalty, in preference to their ethnic group, sect, region or tribe.
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Most parties are based on sect and their supporters look to them for protection and patronage more than for sound policies.
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It's been 25 years since the federal government engaged in a 51-day standoff with the millennialist sect in Waco, Tex.
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At times, the Sanders campaign has reminded me of the Shakers, a nineteenth-century Protestant sect whose members did not reproduce.
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Mets fans, and I speak as a lifelong member of this sect, are likely to react to this news with glee.
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The legal changes have left the sect particularly vulnerable, and attacks on Ahmadi businesses, places of worship and graveyards are common.
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The Yazidi, a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of ancient Middle Eastern religions, are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
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The blasts occurred in the city's Zahraa neighborhood, populated mainly by members of President Bashar al Assad's Alawite sect, the Observatory said.
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Nobody associates all Seventh-day Adventists with David Koresh, who belonged to a splinter sect, or all of Judaism with Meir Kahane.
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The trust leaders made a deal to stave off eviction, but it served as more evidence of the sect&aposs waning power.
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But the poor, who rely on the patronage of politicians from their own sect, seem unlikely to gamble on relatively unknown outsiders.
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Almost 100 Russian members of the sect face criminal charges under that law, and more than 20 are in pre-trial detention.
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The sect, whose history spans just over a century, already has plenty of experience of enduring persecution and unpleasant encounters with officialdom.
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Raqqa residents said the woman was Alawite, a member of the heterodox Shiite sect that dominates the leadership of Syrian security forces.
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Members of the sect are among the several thousand Shi'ite Muslims whose movement was inspired by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
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The wealthy Dhammakaya sect, which claims millions of adherents worldwide, has been dogged by allegations of corruption, which it has steadfastly denied.
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Stein was born in Brooklyn and brought up in a Hasidic Jewish community, a conservative Jewish sect that shuns the modern world.
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I gave the Karaite sect a head of religion: the Exilarch, and also one for the Samaritans: the Kohen Gadol (High Priest).
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Readers learn that the "dangerous" Ahmadiya (called by a derogatory term) are a "destructive" sect with a "filthy agenda" that helps Zionism.
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The Muslim sect, largely located in Burma's Rakhine State, have been oppressed by Buddhist nationalists and their plight has made international headlines.
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A bigger difficulty is that homogeneity is impossible in lands where ethnicity and sect can change from one village to the next.
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The show makes much of the conflict between Noesner and the FBI cohort that wants to crush the sect with military might.
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Under the guru's leadership, the sect, which practices a relatively modern form of Vaishnava Hinduism, established more than a thousand temples worldwide.
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"The global mood increasingly feels like one of atavism, of retreat into narrower identities of nation, politics or sect," our reporter observes.
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He is also a bishop in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a neo-Pentecostal sect with millions of followers.
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Lea and Knut are members of a harsh religious sect that promises an afterlife of fire and brimstone for sinners like Hansen.
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For years, Bountiful aligned itself with the FLDS, existing as a sleepy northern outpost of the sect led by Jeffs's father, Rulon.
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But instead of beards and bell bottoms, the sect embraced a militaristic aesthetic, wearing khaki uniforms and addressing each other by rank.
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Mr. Khattak said the protesters belonged to the Barelvi sect of Sunni Muslims, who had formed the bulk of Mr. Sharif's support.
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Ross Douthat Like any strange and quarrelsome sect, the church of anti-Trump conservatism has divided and subdivided since Donald Trump's election.
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The Modzitzer sect, based in Bnei Brak, Israel, is famous in the Jewish world for soulful melodies, sometimes plaintive and sometimes joyous.
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Recently, he's been researching Black Shakers — members of the insular and diminishing Christian sect known for ecstatic trembling and sleek, minimalist furniture.
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Its leadership is based in the Free Presbyterian Church, the fundamentalist sect founded in 1951 by the former D.U.P. leader Ian Paisley.
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The Amish are descendants of the Anabaptist sect of Christianity originating in 53th century Europe and their lifestyle hasn't changed much since.
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Mr. Duterte also enjoys the backing of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, a Christian sect that is a political force in the country.
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More than half were among members of a secretive religious sect, the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, and their relatives and other contacts.
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Even the lowliest jobs were allocated by sect, in a process referred to in Arabic as "muhasasa," or dividing up of spoils.
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Others, like the flourishing of a utopian sect known as the Icarians and the catastrophic tornadoes of 1925, are less well remembered.
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One need not profess faith in traditional terms to share it, of course; no sect, no nation, has a monopoly on virtue.
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But Mr. Sadr has always been a nationalist, committed at least in rhetoric to unifying patriotic Iraqis regardless of sect or ethnicity.
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This was a reaction to the chaos and turmoil caused by the Islamic fundamentalist sect in the Muslim world and in Europe.
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And they object to the role of Iran, a Shiite Muslim nation that has a religious kinship with Mr. Assad's Alawite sect.
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When the Arab Spring came, it did not do so for one religion or sect but for all citizens in the region.
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Mr. Adityanath succeeded him to the Indian Parliament in 1998 and became head of the sect after Mr. Avaidyanath's death in 2014.
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The Yazidis, a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of ancient Middle Eastern religions, are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
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When my grandmother died, in 1985, Jagu joined a religious sect in Delhi and disappeared, until his death, a dozen years later.
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Together the Shinawatras and this sect seem to erode traditional forms of authority, and so in the junta's view, must be quieted.
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In February, Maha Vajiralongkorn, the new king, chose Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong, the abbot of a competing sect, circumventing the Sangha Council.
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Most Sunni communities welcomed the defeat of IS, which they had quickly discovered persecuted all those it deemed enemies, regardless of sect.
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The Nichiren sect of Buddhism, of which he was a member, believed the North Star was associated with the important deity Myoken.
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I think there is a sect of this radical Islam that is really, really serious and poses the greatest threat to us today.
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Ennahda has sought to distance itself from other Islamist movements such as the puritanical Wahabi sect of Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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A Falun Gong practitioner in Calgary, Canada, says she believes she has seen Chinese spies try to infiltrate the sect in her city.
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Many of those detained were members of Falun Gong, a spiritual sect viewed by the Communist Party as a threat to the state.
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Prosecutors say the sect, based on the Utah-Arizona border, diverted funds from Utah's nutrition assistance program for inappropriate use by its leaders.
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He's a part of this monastic, warrior monk sect, and he's loyal to his brothers yet he's having an affair with a woman.
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Ahmadis: a Muslim sect considered heretic by many Sunnis for proclaiming its 19th-century founder in India, Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, as the Messiah.
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Tillerson said religious freedom is "under attack" in Pakistan, citing the marginalization of Ahmadiyya Muslims, a minority sect which Pakistan considers non-Muslim.
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INDIA: It is practised by the close-knit Dawoodi Bohra community, a Shia Muslim sect thought to number up to 2 million worldwide.
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In December, sect members blocked a convoy of military officials, and soldiers in the convoy opened fire, saying they feared for their lives.
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Evicted from its utopia again and again, the sect dwindled over time and finally broke up in 1886, when Girling died of cancer.
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The leading candidate for the role of the supreme patriarch, the spiritual head of Thailand's 300,000 monks, has ties to the Dhammakaya sect.
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The 114 Christians, most of whom are from the Chaldean sect, say they risk death if they are forced to return to Iraq.
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The Ahmadi community has been a target of mob violence and attacks since the government legislated the sect as non-Muslim in 1974.
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Labaik draws most of its support from the Barelvi branch of Sunni Islam, the largest sect in Pakistan that is traditionally considered moderate.
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"Whatever we needed, he was always there for us," Yitzchok Fleischer, a prominent rabbi in the Bobover sect, told Tablet magazine in 2013.
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He founded his sect in 1983 in Punjab to promote "self awakening and global peace" amid a period of militancy and armed conflict.
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Prosecutors say the sect based on the Utah-Arizona border diverted funds from Utah's nutrition assistance program for inappropriate use by its leaders.
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Having sworn to crush the Gulen movement, an Islamic sect it blames for the coup, Turkey's government is now taking its purge abroad.
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More than 3,000 other members of their minority sect were killed in 2014 in an onslaught that the United Nations described as genocidal.
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They have also stoked sectarian tension by destroying the shrines of Sufi mystics and declaring Ibadism, the sect of Libya's Berber minority, heretical.
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This sect of providers is important when you think about providing care in communities with the biggest disparities and biggest barriers to access.
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Whatever the case, we'd suggest law authorities don't immediately rule out the acts as the shadowy hand of some clandestine, hamburger hating sect.
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Some Sunni insurgents use slurs against the Shiites who lead their archenemy — Iran — and against the Alawites, the sect Mr. Assad belongs to.
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Health authorities began testing more than 210,000 members of a religious sect at the center of South Korea's epidemic for coronavirus on Thursday.
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Members of the sect insist on calling themselves Muslims, and we mainstream Muslims insist on treating them like the worst kind of heretics.
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A few years later, the Waco siege standoff between law enforcement and a Texas religious sect would sear itself into the country's consciousness.
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Nusayriyyah is the term used by the Islamic State for the Alawite religious sect to which President Bashar al-Assad of Syria belongs.
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Health authorities began testing more than 603,000 members of a religious sect at the center of South Korea's epidemic for coronavirus on Thursday.
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She, like Mr. Assad, is a member of the minority Alawite sect of Shia Muslims, who compose about 10 percent of Syria's population.
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With 2.2 billion followers, the faith that began as a small Jewish sect is by far the planet's most popular and diverse religion.
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Ms. Choi's father, Choi Tae-min, who died in 1994, was the founder of an obscure sect called the Church of Eternal Life.
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Members aren't pressurized into abandoning their jobs and familial relationships or to believe in a "Messianic 'apocalyptic' sect shrouded in secrecy," it said.
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Her father, Roger, had been an officer in the Exclusive Brethren, a radical Protestant sect that closely controlled the lives of its members.
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Around a century ago, a sect of Christian Pacifists from Russia, known as the Dukhobors, settled nearby, infusing the region with antiwar zeal.
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Tehran views the Houthis, who are from a Shi'ite sect, as the legitimate authority in Yemen but denies it supplies them with weapons.
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Prayuth Chan-ocha is still on a manhunt for Phra Dhammachayo, the controversial spiritual leader of the Dhammakaya movement, a powerful Buddhist sect.
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Most were from al-Ahsa, a mixed Shi'ite and Sunni region that is home to around half the members of the kingdom's minority sect.
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Muslim citizens of Pakistan could get a passport only after signing a declaration that we disavowed members of the Ahmadiyya sect as non-Muslims.
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Warda, the human rights activist, said militants from any sect that attacked civilians in the name of religion were "no better than Islamic State".
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Julie Lenarz, director of the Human Security Centre in London, said Ali's Oscar triumph marks a victory for a sect that is often harassed.
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The men have been leaders in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon sect that believes in plural marriage.
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Ahmadis are members of a sect which regards itself as Islamic but who are not allowed to call themselves Muslim under Pakistan's blasphemy laws.
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Saudi Shi'ites complain of marginalisation in the birthplace of Islam, which follows the rigid Wahhabi Sunni school that views the minority sect as heretical.
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Each bungalow colony sort of caters to a specific sect, although people mix and match, and you can have many different types in one.
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The sweeping purges that followed July's coup were ostensibly directed against followers of the Gulen movement, an Islamic sect suspected of leading the mutiny.
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She warns that, as the church grows more evangelical, it risks morphing into a sect that appeals to a dwindling pool of conservative enthusiasts.
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He also challenged Janet Reno, the attorney general, over the government's raid on the Branch Davidians religious sect at its compound in Waco, Tex.
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Midland Circle also happens to be the headquarters of the Defender's lead villainous sect The Hand, the shadowy organization led by Alexandra (Sigourney Weaver).
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Over 200,000 people, mostly suspected members of the Gulen movement—the Islamist sect said to have led the failed putsch—were jailed or sacked.
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Though the women, separated by geography and religious sect, expressed the desire to be allies, such connection was rendered impossible by their trusted advisors.
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The disclosures came in a court filing seeking to keep other sect leaders behind bars as they await trial in a welfare fraud case.
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The country's sectarian political system means rival parties from the same sect are often pitted against each other in competition for the same seats.
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Jeffs is still considered a prophet to the most devout members of the sect, even as he serves a life sentence in Texas prison.
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The first season of this drama about the members of a reclusive religious sect that's just a little cultlike was slow to get going.
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Like any other Islamic sect under the strictly secular and pro-military Turkish governments, Gulen's community was banned and operated largely underground until 217.
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Saudi Shi'ites complain of marginalization in the birthplace of Islam, which follows the rigid Wahhabi Sunni school that views the minority sect as heretical.
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"One person at work told another colleague of mine … I really think she's in a sect or some kind of religious group," Kahl joked.
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With many in the country following Wahhabism, an extremely conservative sect of Islam, things popular in Western culture are often banned from the country.
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Jeffs took over leadership of the polygamist Mormon sect after his older brother was arrested on child sex charges related to his underage wives.
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Shafiq, the Attars and Nagarwala are all members of the Dawoodi Bohra community, a religious sect of Islam, said Shafiq's attorney, Victoria Burton-Harris.
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The targeted area is populated by Christians and Alawites loyal to the government and is close to the mountain heartland of Assad's Alawite sect.
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The village of Hader is populated by members of the Druze, a minority religious sect present in Syria, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon.
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Mr Gulen's sect, known as the cemaat, administers a global network of schools, charities, and businesses, and has placed followers throughout the Turkish bureaucracy.
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Indeed, Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy served as a sort of "bible" for the sect, which also aspired to build a utopian community of scientists.
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But the Houthis, mostly members of Yemen's Zaydi Shi'ite sect, and army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh also have friends there.
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Ali belonged to a sect that emphasized strong families, a subject on which he lectured, yet he had dalliances as casual as autograph sessions.
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Tehran views the Houthis, who hail from a Shi'ite sect, as the legitimate authority in Yemen but denies accusations it supplies them with weapons.
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The Saudi government, which subscribes to the ultraconservative Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam, objects to the Shia Hezbollah's minority role in the Lebanese government.
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They are like fashion's versions of the Davidians, a schismatic sect founded by a Bulgarian immigrant to the United States, Victor Houteff, in 1929.
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There's a whole sect of celebrities who have finsta accounts — including Sophie Turner, Ariana Grande , and Justin Bieber — but they're known to the public.
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The position of prime minister has been reserved for a Shia, Iraq's majority sect, since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's Sunni leadership.
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Barrett's religious sect believes that men are heads of households and women "handmaids" who are supposed to defer to patriarchal authority in all things.
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Iran intervened in turn, sending officers and later Hezbollah to fight on behalf of Syria's government, whose leaders mostly follow a sect of Shiism.
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All of the defendants, like Mirza, belonged to the Dawoodi Bohra community, a small Shiite Muslim sect whose traditional home is in western India.
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Graffiti by WANTO's 246 crew-mates TOM and RUST, as well as Japanese writers like HENKA, DART, MINT, and SECT, was everywhere in sight.
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That was all it took to trick the bro sect and critics not of Ebert's salt into believing this shit was deep and meaningful.
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One voice on the recording was unmistakable, though—the soft, monotone tenor of Warren Jeffs, the deranged leader of North America's largest polygamist sect.
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Choi's late father, Choi Tae-min, headed a now-defunct religious sect and was also close to Park during and after her father's presidency.
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Her most recent album, "Ouï," was recorded in a former monastery, and at times it sounds like a one-woman sect reaching psychedelic nirvana.
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Jamil was one of the sheikhs who belonged to the Tabliq Sect which was based mostly in Nakasero and William Street mosques, in Kampala.
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"Miserlou" was adapted as a melody by the Hasidim of the Bratslav sect, and "Jingle Bells" was turned into a Viznitzer composition, he said.
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In the wisdom of a small, furniture-obsessed religious sect founded in the 18th century, we may find a way to start moving forward.
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Lee Man-hee The leader of a Christian sect has apologized for the role his followers played in spreading the coronavirus in South Korea.
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Nigeria accuses the group of attempting to murder a military chief in the city of Zaria in Kaduna, an allegation the sect has denied.
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As of Tuesday, crowds still gathered around the shrine of Fatima Masumeh, a revered figure in Shia Islam, the religious sect of most Iranians.
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While the new premier is also a Sunni, he lacks broad support among his sect, and that may take away from his cabinet's legitimacy.
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The Yazidis are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions and who speak one of the Kurdish languages.
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As a Hasidic Jew, she spent her childhood with eight siblings in the Yiddish-speaking and largely insular Satmar sect in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
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You received some backlash after the first episode, in which you featured a Hindu sect that engaged in cannibalism, and critics called it sensationalist.
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The sect is one of just many sources of opposition of Kabila that threaten to plunge the vast, mineral-rich central country into chaos.
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Members of the royal family appear to have sponsored the sect, and are thought to have helped pay for buildings at its main compound.
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Hyperallergic was not able to confirm if any were Hasidic — the sect to which B&H's owners and many of its Jewish employees belong.
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These areas contain the overwhelming majority of Syria's Alawites, the minority Shia sect to which Bashar al-Assad and much of his regime belong.
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Historical persecution of the Shias has been the life-blood of the Wahhabi sect that was borne in central Arabia more than 250 years ago.
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The first killing in 1981 targeted a former sect member who challenged Yahweh Ben Yahweh's teachings and left to form a splinter group with others.
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Several imams said party officials were most concerned about Salafis, an ultraconservative Sunni sect whose strict interpretation of religious texts has been associated with extremism.
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