By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - Among the dead in last week's Paris attacks were two sisters celebrating a birthday, a promising architect, a talented musician and a woman shot while out doing some late shopping. What they had in common was that they were Muslims killed in the random slaughter carried out by Islamic State. Most victims of violence by Islamic State and other jihadist groups are Muslims, since they fight mostly in majority Muslim countries and often attack less radical Islamic communities such as Shi'ites and Sufis that they consider to be heretics. Islamic State - widely known in Arabic as Daesh - claimed responsibility for...
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