Word: schisms
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...solidarity, in reality, that monolith—diverse as it is—only represents a fraction of black students at Harvard. No longer denied social and extracurricular opportunities within the greater Harvard community, many black students feel little need to associate with other blacks. This dynamic creates a schism within the mainstream, meeting-going, event-attending black community, which debates how hard it should work to include such individuals...
...ritual bloodletting and physical mortification. Every year, during the festival of Ashura, Shi'ites symbolically punish themselves for their failure to rally to their imam at the Battle of Karbala and save him from his enemies in a conflict that marked the beginning of the Sunni-Shi'ite schism...
...Hizballah's leaders have long spoken out against a schism between Shi'ites and Sunnis, arguing that it only benefits Israel and the enemies of Islam. And one reason it called off its general strike earlier this week was that Hizballah has probably concluded that the government, buoyed by roughly equal support to that of the opposition and backed by the weight of the international community, will not buckle regardless of any new measures undertaken by the opposition. That was implicitly acknowledged to TIME by Qassem Hashem, an opposition parliamentarian and member of the Lebanese branch...
...crisis has also aggravated tensions between Lebanese Sunnis and Shi'ites, itself a reflection of the regional intra-Muslim schism stirred by the chaos in Iraq and Sunni fears of Iran's Middle East ambitions. Last month, Qassem and a colleague traveled to Saudi Arabia to hold an unprecedented meeting with King Abdullah - Saudi Arabia is a key backer of the Lebanese government and known to harbor deep suspicions about Iranian objectives throughout the region...
...Episcopalians The 2003 election of an openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. has led to a real threat of internal schism and possible second-tier status in the Anglican Communion, its global parent...