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Followers of Islam in India are divided into two primary groups: Sunnis (adherents of the Sunna law expounded by Mohammed’s own words and deeds) and Shiites (followers of those interpretations proposed by Mohammed’s cousin Ali).
Movement adherents claim that the IDE procedure--in which delivery is induced, the fetus's skull is crushed, and its brains are suctioned--amounts to infanticide.
Japan, where Christianity has almost no adherents, has less violent crime than almost any country.
Oscar Wilde, the high priest of this movement whose adherents cultivated eccentricity in dress and affectation in speech and manner, came to America in 1882 on a lecture tour and presented in the flesh the image of an aesthete.
(A religious faith that disposes its believers to become martyrs may be quite false, and lethal to its adherents, yet persist if each martyr inspires others.)