Beg to differ, sorta.
The crucial issue is the rights of an individual, who is of course a minority of one.
But talking about "rights of minorities" still has us in the rights of groups rather than of people as individuals.
Group rights, whether those groups are majorities or minorities, are always in conflict with the rights of individuals. IMO, if individual rights are properly respected, there is no need for group rights.
That's a good point.
I was thinking about the situation in Egypt. There, Coptic Christians are subject to repression and coercion because they belong to a group the Mohammedan majority doesn't like.
I was thinking that the right of a minority, along with the right to hold property, would safeguard any individual of that group...
Rights of minority seemed preferable as a legal definition and argument, especially considering who we are arguing with.
But I need to do more thinking.