Indeed, 'Islamic' states oppress even their own sectarian minorities - bethey non-Wahabbi Sunnis in some cases, or Shia, Ismaili, Ahmadiya, or Sufi, inothers - not only through systematic denial of elementary religious rights tothese sects, but, as in the case of Pakistan, through state sponsored terroristmovements against such minorities - recall that the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan wasset up by General Zia-ul-Haq to target Shias in the wake of the Iranianrevolution, and continued to enjoy the support of the state under successorregimes, till it got mixed up with the Al Qaeda and anti-US terrorism, and lostits status as a sarkari (state supported) jihadi organisation.