Crane traces the roots of Ware's idealism and zealotry to his upbringing in the Plymouth Brethren, a sectarian offshoot of Anglicanism characterised by reliance on the sole authority of scripture and on the importance of intense Christian fellowship.
Portraying himself as an apt pupil at the master's feet, Hoxha thus establishes continuity between Stalin's USSR and his own rule, thus "proving" that his particular sectarian offshoot of communism is the "true" heir to the Revolution, even if it is entirely without influence on world affairs.
Fighting alongside them were other groups that reject that support, including some that the United States views as dangerously sectarian, like Al Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda offshoot that the United States recently blacklisted as a terrorist organization.
While the majority-Sunni country has been relatively free of sectarian violence, members of an Islamic State offshoot have repeatedly targeted gatherings of Shiites.
A group of the same name — believed to be an offshoot of the notorious sectarian outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi — attacked a bus carrying minority Shiites in Gilgit-Baltistan earlier this year, said a security official in Peshawar speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Here in Iraq, the advance of Sunni militants allied with the Islamic State, an Al Qaeda offshoot, has clearly raised sectarian tensions.
The conflict has a sectarian dimension: the rebels are Zaydis, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
It also has troubling sectarian overtones: the rebels are Zaydis, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and the government has sometimes used hard-line Sunni tribesmen as proxy warriors.
Furthermore, the entry of the Shia militia will further demarcate the war along sectarian lines between the Alawites, a Shia offshoot from which President Assad and the ruling elite are drawn and the mainly Sunni opposition.
Sipah is widely viewed as the ideological center of sectarian thinking in Pakistan; its most notorious offshoot is Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the militant group responsible for much of the sectarian bloodshed this year: roadside executions, drive-by shootings and two major suicide attacks in the western city of Quetta that killed almost 200 people earlier this year.
The conflict in Sadah, which began in 2004, has a sectarian element: the Houthis are Zaidis, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that is fairly common in Yemen, and the government has used radical Sunni militants as proxy forces against them.
