Noted scholar Yasir Qadhi on Facebook talked at length about the unfair expectations levied on the Muslim community, which he defines as "the problem of being a minority under pressure". But conspicuously missing from his post was any mention of the actual victims of this tragedy.
This is assuming that Boko Haram, the gobby, stupid and violent minority-interest pressure group, are of similar mind to their Malian counterparts Ansar Dine, who have stated that they want to ban football.
Discretion, it says, is a cowardly refusal to acknowledge that affirmative action is no longer needed and, as Ward Connerly argues, is counter-productive: it shelters minorities from pressures that would improve their competitiveness.Maybe so; and Mr Connerly and his supporters can claim the tide of public opinion is running their way.
There are now an estimated 250,000 Garifuna people worldwide, a minority culture under pressure from assimilation and coastal development.
Vodafone's chief executive, Vittorio Colao, has said he is reviewing all minority interests amid pressure from shareholders to squeeze more out of the investments.
Encouraging nations to cut poverty and protect minority rights -- pressure that at the moment is staving off war in Macedonia -- is crucial, and is the right thing to do.
In rural Bohemia, Dvorak had kept company with peasants and played the organ in church; belonging to a proud Hapsburg minority, he resisted pressure to move to Vienna or to Germanize his first name as "Anton".
Social hostility such as attacks on minority faiths or pressure to conform to certain norms was strong in one-third of the 198 countries and territories surveyed in 2012, especially in the Middle East and North Africa, it said on Tuesday.
This is especially troubling because what unfolded in Orlando serves as a potent reminder that the LGBT community is also a minority group "under pressure". They too are imperiled by the unjust treatment of minorities that Qadhi is denouncing.
A vocal, infuriated minority of Americans pressured the Obama administration and Congress to find a less-intrusive method for trying to ensure air safety.
