Furthermore, as members of the minority Shia sect, they are additionally disadvantaged.

Most Iraqis fleeing dangerous areas have been members of the minority sect in their neighborhoods, Mr. Nowruz said.

He reined in Islamist opponents but sought to broaden his power base beyond minority sects.

Colonial Pennsylvania was home to a number of religious minority sects, several of which have played an important role in the musical development of the area.

Many key security positions are held by Alawites, who like the Assad family are members of a once-poor minority sect risen to power.

Shiite means partisans, or the party of Ali, which became the minority sect.

In March 1963 a military coup installed a secular, Baath socialist regime dominated by minority sects.

The book makes the case for Quranism, a minority sect in Islam.

One of the reasons that Falsafah remained a minority sect in Islam was its elitism.

The subsequent transformation of Christianity into the main Roman religion ended the position of Christians as a minority sect.