It persecuted its own Sunni minority.
The recent video also faulted Iran for allowing Jews to maintain and worship in synagogues, even as, according to the video, it persecuted and killed its restive minority Sunnis.
It persecutes the community".
"When Russia annexed Georgia in the beginning of the 19th century," she said, "it abolished the king, it abolished the patriarch in 1811, it persecuted the Georgian language at all levels, including the church".
Nicholas D. Kristof is right in saying that the Pakistani government should prosecute rapists with the same zeal with which it persecutes rape victims ("A Free Woman," column, June 19).
For years it has persecuted its Rohingya minority.
The pine marten itself, the sinuously beautiful, tree-dwelling relative of the stoat, the weasel and the otter, could stand for all of it: once present right across the country, it was persecuted out of existence in most of Britain until its last stronghold was the north-west highlands.
Pursuing an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam, it has persecuted non-Muslims and Shia Muslims, whom it regards as heretics.
This, perhaps, was why Islam, the new idea, felt so threatening to the Meccan élite; why it was persecuted so viciously; and why its founder may — just may — have been offered an attractive deal, designed to buy him off.
This, perhaps, was why Islam, the new idea, felt so threatening to the Meccan élite; why it was persecuted so viciously; and why its founder may just may have been offered an attractive deal, designed to buy him off.
