Oman enforces tolerance, keeping sectarian divide at bay On a November evening at Sayyida Mazoon mosque in Muscat, worshippers from different Muslim sects ascended the polished marble steps to pray together at sunset. Oman -- home to Sunnis, Shiites and adherents of the Ibadi branch of Islam, the sultanate's majority sect -- increasingly stands out as a bastion of coexistence in the Middle East. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES