religious minority

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• MINORITY RIGHTS — MINORITY RIGHTS, rights enjoyed by Jews and other ethnic minorities between the two world wars in some countries, mainly eastern and southeastern Europe, according to the provisions of the minorities treaties at the Versailles Peace Conference,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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• Minority group — A minority is a sociological group within a demographic. The demographic could be based on many factors from ethnicity, gender, wealth, power, etc. The term extends to numerous situations, and civilizations within history, despite the misnomer of …   Wikipedia

• Religious minorities in Iran — There are several major religious minorities in Iran, while the majority and state religion is Shi a Islam.cite web | url = http://www.fidh.org/asie/rapport/2003/ir0108a.pdf | author = Federation Internationale des Ligues des Droits de L Homme |… …   Wikipedia

• Minority-majority state — US states and districts in which non Hispanic whites are a minority. Majority minority (alternatively, minority majority) is a term used to describe a U.S. state or other jurisdiction whose racial composition is less than 50% white. White in this …   Wikipedia