21.   The Shia community is a minority Muslim sect that split from the mainstream Sunni Muslims.

22.   The Shiites felt they did not enjoy economic and social parity with Sunni Muslims, the mainstream Muslim sect to which the ruling family belongs.

23.   The ruling Al Khalifa family is from the Sunni sect, the mainstream Muslim sect.

24.   The Shiites felt they did not enjoy economic and social parity with the Sunni Muslims, members of the mainstream Muslim sect to which the ruling family belongs.

25.   The Sunni Movement called the strike to protest the appointment of a member of a minority Muslim sect to the Sindh provincial Cabinet.

26.   The two Muslim sects often clash in Pakistan.

27.   Two people died of knife wounds Monday following a dispute between members of two Muslim sects in Western India, police said.

28.   Unidentified attackers fired on coffeehouses in a poor neighborhood populated by Alawites, a minority Muslim sect accounting for up to a third of the population.

29.   Hundreds of people have died in recent years in sectarian violence blamed on militants from the two Muslim sects.