ABSTRACT This article deals with tiny religious minorities and examines the Druze religious minority in Israel, Lebanon, and Syria as its case study. The main argument is that minorities, despite keeping a low profile in international and national affairs, have usually been subject to major atrocities, forced conversion and ethnic cleansing in civil wars; minorities feel the brunt of discrimination by their own (including democratic) states and societies, and even engage in assimilation at high rates. The process of assimilation slowly leads to the dwindling and eventually disappearance of religious minorities under the trends of cultural convergence and the forces of globalization. The article asserts that tiny religious minorities, despite their weakness, but rather because of their weakness suffer proportionally more atrocities, discrimination, and assimilation than other majority or minority groups.

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微小的宗教少数群体和少数群体权利：以德鲁兹社区为例

摘要本文介绍了少数宗教少数派，并研究了以色列，黎巴嫩和叙利亚的德鲁兹宗教少数派作为案例研究。主要论点是，尽管少数群体在国际和国内事务中保持低调，但在内战中通常遭受重大暴行，强迫conversion依和种族清洗。少数群体首当其冲地受到自己（包括民主）国家和社会的歧视，甚至参与同化的比率很高。在文化融合和全球化力量的推动下，同化进程缓慢地导致宗教少数群体的减少和消失。文章断言，尽管宗教弱小，他们虽软弱无力，但由于他们的软弱而遭受相应的暴行，歧视，