Among the first witnesses, Sgt. Danny Crawford of the protective services division produced documents that he said showed marriages among the sect, including some that seemed to suggest that the wives had been under 16 when they wed.
Officials said that alleged snipers among the sect's flock had killed eight police officers, and that only 13 residents had died in a firefight.
Andress recounts, succinctly, the feuds and rivalries among the bewildering sects and sub-sects of the revolutionaries, and does a good job of dealing with the Terror outside Paris.
In Lebanon, power is divided among the major sects, Sunnis, Shiites and Christians.
Dizzy had a kind of romantic-aesthetic spirituality, but he saw organized religion as a useful civic support, with spoils to be divided fairly among the various sects.
And in view of the endless variations [p711] -- not only among the numerous sects but also among the organized activities they pursued and the relative emotional values they attached to their activities -- how could any species of government assistance be considered genuinely equal from sect to sect?
Some are by Sunni extremists trying to sow hatreds among the different sects and faiths in the area; some are more mundane crimes; and some are revenge killings between Turkmen and Kurd; Arab and Turkmen; Muslim and Christian.
Chandra Muzaffar, president of the International Movement for a Just World, a nongovernment organization based in Malaysia, said while there may be differences among the various sects, Shiites are part of the Muslim community.
With the historical disappearance (ghaybah) of the last imam there has been no consistency in the number legitimized: among the major sects, Sabʿīyah Ismāʿīlīs acknowledge 7 imams and Ithnā ʿAsharī (Twelvers) 12 there arose a belief in the hidden imam, who is identified with the mahdī.
Shiite is among the few sects on the Islamic faith that strongly believes in ruling nations under the Islamic law, or Shria, a belief that has given birth to political Islam.
