They still insist on speaking different languages, they read different papers, worship at the shrines of different celebrities, chortle at different television programmes.
The destruction of the shrines in Timbuktu and the silencing of the country's rich tradition of music highlight the threat posed by the Islamists.
The targets across Pakistan have been diverse, but several recent bombings have been at the shrines of Sufi saints, like the one Umar was involved in.
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But privately, many of the neighbors who've come to tend the makeshift shrines also blame the Detroit drug dealers.
One of the most notable shrines is the Sayida Zeinab, which Shiites believe houses the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed's granddaughter, Zeinab.
Dewi Sri is the Balinese Hindu goddess of fertility and prosperity, and it is to her that the rice farmers so carefully present offerings in the simple bamboo shrines at the edge of each field, just as we had witnessed earlier.
Flower sellers line the walk to one of the most sacred shrines in Anuradhapura, the holy Bo tree.
One of the most sacred shrines for Shiites, the Imam Ali mosque, was damaged Tuesday by some type of explosion outside its walls.
They also made their ideological pilgrimages through the chic ideological and spiritual shrines of the time: est, the New Age movement, etc.
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Tributes and hope burn in the flames of candles and shrines beside the doorway, this massive orifice from which red engines of life charge day after day, but now sit silent.
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As the controlling authority of the two holiest shrines of Islam, Saudi Arabia is able to disseminate its religious materials among the millions of Muslims making the hajj to Mecca each year.
The radical Shiite group, which the United States and Israel call a terrorist organization, has said it is in Syria only to protect Lebanese in the country and to protect holy Shiite shrines from the warfare.
At the end of this open mall are those shrines to the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
Each of the three sites contains shrines, some of which were founded as early as the 9th century.
The final parade begins with deafening thunderclaps and the air is thick with smoke as group after group of Thais in robes hoist golden shrines into the air covered in more fireworks than you will see on New Year's Eve, anywhere.
Some areas of the tunnels even became shrines for martyrs buried there.
An unknown number of Buddhists, meanwhile, sought refuge inside the city's shrines.
The loss of these shrines has sparked worldwide outrage but it has also caused great sadness and disapproval among religious leaders in Bamako.
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Security rings have been set up around the city's shrines, and anyone coming into Karbala will have to go through a number of checkpoints, he said.
Many temples and shrines in the area surrounding Nijo Castle and Arashiyama also are lit up throughout hanami, as well as momiji-gari, when the lights seem to ignite the burnt orange and red maples.
Once he had entered the city, Cyrus did not burn it to the ground (as usually happened with conquered cities at this period) but he freed the population from forced labor obligations, sent back to various shrines statues of gods, and allowed the people who had been brought to Babylon by the Babylonian kings to return to their homes.
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Some 71km after Thessaloniki, the Egnatia Odos passes Veria, a small town with several worthwhile Byzantine shrines and nearby archeological sites like the ancient Macedonian Pella and Vergina.
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It is regarded as one of Christianity's most important shrines, hence the row.
Parents built makeshift shrines and placed the bodies of the dead on pieces of cardboard or plywood as they grieved over the small lifeless forms.
The destruction of Timbuktu's shrines adds a moral and cultural crisis to a desperate humanitarian situation.
International outrage has been growing over the destruction of the West African nation's shrines.
They also insist they have taken action against attacks by Salafists, everywhere from the American embassy to sacred Sufi shrines and art exhibitions deemed to be profane.
Anyway, in Britain as in Pakistan, a plurality of ordinary South Asian Muslims follows a different form of the faith: the Barelvi tradition, which celebrates shrines, saints and music.
Xoan guilds traditionally performed in sacred spaces such as temples, shrines and communal houses for the spring festivals.
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