The Belz, who originated in Ukraine in the early 18th century and established their headquarters in Israel after the second world war, are one of the most prominent Hasidic sects.
Not all Orthodox sects discourage women from driving.
Death squads were by then roaming Baghdad and much of central Iraq, killing members of opposite sects with routine savagery and exiling residents from neighbourhoods they dominated.
She went on to accuse the government of tearing down the "social fabric" of Sudan and sewing "discord between the sects of society".
That area of public life used to the terrain of the DUP given that the party was rooted in fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church and an amalgam of other hardline evangelical Protestant sects.
For the past three or so years, his government and police force have done little as increasingly emboldened radical groups have launched violent and sometimes deadly attacks on minority sects, notably Shiites and Ahmadi Muslims an Ahmadiyah mosque in West Java was vandalised on October 25th.
Most are Sunni Muslims, but Kurdish areas are known for their tolerance and the plurality of their sects.
Disciples of one of Iraq's more excitable sects protest at the arrest of armed preachers who hailed the emergence of Khomeini-style rule.
The civil war divided most of America's Protestant sects, says Mark Noll of the University of Notre Dame.
These are low barriers to entry, which may help to explain the creative destruction that has characterised Protestant sects.
He is claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa, the head of one of the main sects of the Kagyud, or "Black Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, which in the 17th century lost state power to the dalai lamas' own Gelugpa school.Ogyen Trinley, recognised by both the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama as the incarnate Karmapa, was born in Tibet, but in 1999 fled to India.
