Minority rights-based approaches to the protection and promotion of the rights of religious minorities 2013, para. 44
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The reality of minorities within minorities and the centrality of self-definition should not be neglected. Religious minorities may be characterized by both unity and diversity, by obedience and solidarity, as well as by multiple and emerging histories. Diversities of nomenclatures, self-ascriptions of terms to describe the group or its practices, the multiplicity of groups that share holy figures or sites of significance, those all need to be acknowledged. The complexity of arising issues cannot be ignored away. Further, the ignorance of the public at large regarding the variety of groups and values under a particular religion or belief "header" and their demographic profile needs to be challenged.