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In one particularly odd case, a Najran judge sentenced a 16-year-old Ismaili schoolboy to death for blasphemy.
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Be reassured: the exhibition, at the Ismaili Centre in London until August 31st, is no judgment-paralysing blockbuster.
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"There's ongoing shooting with very high intensity, " Tetovo Mayor Murtezan Ismaili told AP.
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Most residents of the province belong to the Pamiri ethnicity, which follows the minority Ismaili sect of Islam and speaks languages distinct from Tajik.
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The only shock is that the decision has taken so long, as it comes six weeks after Esperance's defeat to Egyptian side Ismaili in the semi-finals.
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The Nigerians will not know their opposition until after this weekend, when Ismaili of Egypt and Esperance of Tunisia, play their second leg semi-final in Tunis.
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But Fayyad, a Sunni, and Hasan, an Ismaili, are among the thousands of testaments to sectarian amity in what is a Sunni-dominated but diverse ethnic stew.
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Staff at a London-based Islamic research body, the Institute for Ismaili Studies, have ranged from radicals like Mohammed Arkoun, a leader of the French deconstructionist school, to traditional Sunni or Sufi scholars.
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Mohammad Aslam Khan, head of Karachi counter-terrorism cell, told the BBC that the attack was "clearly targeted" at the Bohra Ismaili Shia community, from which most of the dead and injured came.
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Activists from the 200, 000-strong Ismaili Shia community in the remote province of Najran, for instance, complain of gross under-representation in all branches of government, the deliberate settling of Sunni Bedouins in the region, and ritual humiliation in courts and schools that are uniformly run by Wahhabists.
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