"There were Sunnis in the army, but all the officers were Shiite, and they were persecuting them, so that's why they didn't do anything," explained a peshmerga officer who gave his name only as Lt. Col. Latif.
In the movie, as in the comics, mutants -- Homo superior -- are the next evolutionary stage for human beings, and they're persecuted because (gasp) they're different.
I had learned they were the almond-eyed individuals who were the servants in The Kite Runner, that they spoke a form of Persian, and that they were persecuted by everybody: by the Pashtun majority in Afghanistan, by the Taliban in the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands, and by the Iranians, when they made it over the Afghanistan-Iran border.
Mr. Porges said all his clients would ask for asylum, some on the basis of China's one-child policy and some contending they were persecuted because they are Christians.
Like the predominantly Sunni Muslim Kurds living around them, or Christian sects, or Shiites, or Iraqi Jews, the Yazidi have had times when they could live their separate lives in peace and other times when they were persecuted for being different.
Ospreys were once widely distributed, especially in Scotland, but they were persecuted, and became extinct here as early as the 1900s.
Throughout Mercia they were persecuted and deprived of their possessions.
She followed Joseph as he journeyed west to find a safe place to practice Mormonism, and suffered alongside him as they were persecuted by critics.
Rather, they were persecuted, subpoenaed and passed over for jobs when they came home.
