And the weavers were a sect of Muslims in a largely Hindu area.
Warren Jeffs, leader of a polygamist sect of the FLDS, a fringe Mormon group, was sentenced to 119 years in prison for sexual assault.
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Each party took 41 seats, most of the rest going to mild Islamists, Turkomen, Christians and Yazidis (followers of a sect that is said to descend from Roman-era worshippers of the god Mithras), nearly all with the blessing of the two big Kurdish parties.
"Don't forget that a person's religion is the religion of his friend, " the prime minister said of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the opposition leader, who like many of his sect, is a member of Turkey's secular Republican People's party.
Last year, police destroyed a sanctuary of the sect in Kayanza - its stronghold - and its followers retaliated by breaking up a Sunday service at a local Catholic church, she says.
So sayeth the leader of the Dhammakaya sect, a Thai Buddhist version of the prosperity gospel hustle.
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Although Canon's powerful EOS-1D Mark III has priced itself right out of consideration for a large sect, the niche that has been waiting in tense anticipation to see a solid review of the unit need wait no more.
The Alevis, a big religious sect that numbers up to a quarter of Turkey's population of 62m, are suspicious of Mr Erbakan.
Those arrested include the mother of the child, and the suspects are said to be members of a religious sect.
Regarding the chain of command, the French intelligence assessment said the section of the Syrian military responsible for filling munitions with chemical agents and for security at storage sites - "Branch 450" of the CERS - was staffed only by members of the president's minority Alawite sect and was "distinguished by a high level of loyalty to the regime".
This week, the controversial couple, together with Brigitte Boisselier, the head of Clonaid, the cloning arm of the Raelians (a slightly weird sect), repeated the trick for the cameras at America's National Academy of Sciences.
Syria is a nation with a Sunni majority governed by a minority Alawite, an offshoot sect of Shia Islam.
In Santa Monica, store manager William Lombardi learned that disciples of a local Buddhist sect eschew any food containing onion and garlic.
No one claimed responsibility but Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a sect which has condemned the use of Western medicine, has been blamed for carrying out a spate of assaults on security forces in the city in recent weeks.
Polygamy is illegal in the US, but the authorities have reportedly been reluctant to confront the FLDS for fear of sparking a tragedy similar to the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas, which led to the deaths of around 80 members.
"If it would have stayed alive, there would have been at least a memory of this young couple for the grandparents, the family, the community, " said Isaac Abraham, a family friend and member of the sect.
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The Web site describes him as a member of an apolitical and peaceful sect of missionaries, and that he went to Afghanistan in October of 2000 to "minister in the small mosques and schools" in the country's poorer regions.
"With all due respect, the Patriarch, the Synod and the Patriarchate find your letter surprising and unacceptable since it constitutes an outright and inappropriate interference in their autonomy as a religious sect and in the religious freedom of members of the Greek Orthodox congregation, " it said.
The example of Holland proved that a toleration of sects dissenting from the established sect was safe, and even useful.
The sect was literally unearthed August 1 in a suburb of the city of Kazan in Russia's mainly Muslim Tatarstan region during an investigation into militant groups.
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They are also not the only interlopers: evictees have also landed here from the School of Ideas, a third Occupy London sect that was bulldozed on the same night as the St.
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It's fairly safe to say that Continental Automotive Systems isn't the only company out there conjuring up an in-car safety system to alert motorists of impending hazards, and while a certain sect (we jest, we jest) would likely ignore whatever great advice it's sure to give, we can still admire the effort here.
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Based on the island of Lanzarote, this sect offers hope in a morally bankrupt post-religious society by promising immortality.
Because they dissented from the Church of England, members of the sect were barred from the professions and as a result gravitated toward business.
And our work to build an enduring partnership with the Afghan people includes a commitment to the security and dignity of all Afghans, regardless of sect or faith.
More recently, a strange bandit sect called Mungiki has been terrorising people in the northern hinterland of Nairobi, forcing protection money out of drivers of matatus (minibuses) and killing those who refuse.
If only the head of the peaceable, pro-American and law-abiding Sufi sect in North America had been given a chance to speak, instead of the radical imam based in Orange County , several things would surely have happened.
In a document released Wednesday, Kenyatta's lawyers said a witness identified as "OTP-4" lied about attending a meeting that the candidate was allegedly holding with the Mungiki, an outlawed sect of fighters.
Spending any length of time with De Beers managers can feel like a visit to a religious sect.
In 18th- and early 19th-century Britain a sizable chunk of the nation's economy was run by members of the religious sect known as the Quakers.
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