Soon, people outside the sect began to seek out Quakers as trading partners, suppliers and sellers.
The baby girl was thrown into a bonfire because the sect reportedly considered her an antichrist.
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He has repressed every group in his society including much of his own Alawite sect.
Hutterites are an Anabaptist sect, founded by Austrian preacher Jakob Hutter, in the 16th Century.
The sectarian factor was clear, they directed sectarian insults to me and my sect.
Most Burundians are Catholic and the official church has distanced itself from the sect.
The sect has also urged its followers to boycott the government's community service programme.
The Shabiha, gangs of thugs and criminals, mostly belong to the president's Alawite sect.
The Mungiki is an outlawed sect made up of members of the Kikuyu tribe.
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Members of the pushti marg sect, who commissioned these works, adore him for it all.
Police later found enough sarin in the sect's possession to kill millions of people.
The settlers and the Hasidic Lubavitch sect were his most ardent campaigners in the 1996 election.
Its biggest competitors in the clothing sect suffered no such slumps this past quarter.
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The accused, a man and two women, allegedly said they belonged to a sect.
Rami said the families killed were Sunnis, suggesting that the killers were motivated by sect differences.
Especially in the mixed-sect province of Diyala, grumbling among the Sahwa-supporting sheikhs may be rising.
With it the communists chose their own Panchen Lama, the Yellow Hat sect's second-most-revered reincarnation.
There, members of an adventurous sect of American brewers are creating an astonishing and ancient beer anew.
So sayeth the leader of the Dhammakaya sect, a Thai Buddhist version of the prosperity gospel hustle.
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The rank and file of the army is dominated by officers from Syria's majority Sunni Muslim sect.
Iran and Hezbollah are predominantly Shia, while Mr Assad's Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam.
The allegedly extra-judicial killing of the sect's late leader, Mohammed Yusuf, serves as a constant warning.
Many of its militants allegedly included ethnic Arab Turks belonging to a sect close to Syria's Alawites.
You might also get some sense of which sect an Iraqi belongs to from his family name.
And, you know, there's already been increased identification with one's own sect over the past three years.
With assets of up to a billion dollars, the sect had shopped in Russia's chaotic arms bazaar.
The Methodists, for example, flourished in the 19th century, when they were seen as an extremist sect.
The predominant theme is that Alawites, an esoteric Muslim sect associated with Shiism, are trying to gain ground.
Spending any length of time with De Beers managers can feel like a visit to a religious sect.
So perhaps China's harsh treatment of the sect's followers was bound to affect relations with the outside world.
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