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Such sectarian sniping, inflamed by traditional notions of women as the repository of family honour, has not been the only cause of strife.

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At least 13 people died in a sectarian row when Coptic Christians protested against the burning of a church on the outskirts of Cairo.

The dark forces of civil conflict and sectarian war will have to be averted, and difficult political and economic concerns addressed.

"As long as the feeling of identity in Lebanon remains sectarian, it's impossible to talk about history on a patriotic basis, " he said.

In Britain (or at least England), the tradition of sectarian enmity was not so much purged from the body politic as mislaid.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, which come amid heightened ethnic and sectarian tensions in Iraq.

Abizaid said the sectarian violence in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, is as bad as he has ever witnessed.

He said sectarian strife is putting the country in peril and the government is trying to save it from what he calls a conspiracy.

John's church seems to be a very sectarian group, why does he talk so much about dark and light?

Mesopotamia at least has a historic structure, with its three north-south oriented ethnic and sectarian entities.

It feels optimistic, as if representing Mr Siti's ability to see past Iraq's recent sectarian record and into a unified future.

As a result, he said, the United States changed its strategy, sending more troops to help secure Baghdad and reduce sectarian violence.

They warned they were less confident of those numbers than of the general population figures because sectarian data is harder to come by.

It is possible that within a year or 18 months a non-sectarian Iraqi army will be able to do much of the work the Americans do now.

I believe that if we were precipitously to withdraw from Baghdad at this point, there would be a dramatic increase in sectarian violence.

There is still no party or leader that can reach across the country's divisions and appeal to Iraqis of every ethnic and sectarian hue.

"We're not ready to go it alone, " says Wesam, a junior army officer. He, like many others, fears a return of sectarian war.

Such moves could challenge interests of the U. S. and Saudi Arabia and inflame sectarian tensions across the Middle East, they say.

When political genius encounters India's sectarian profusion, it seems to breed a wayward spirituality.

Today this cosmology seems to attract rather the sectarian esoteric kind of people, and not liberals of the more rationalistic kind.

Odierno said that when he first arrived in Iraq in 2006, the sectarian violence was so high it was difficult to see a way out.

It was the biggest toll in one day this year, raising sectarian tension when politicians are haggling to form a new government coalition.

All the main non-sectarian alliances are headed by Shias, for Sunnis and Kurds have no chance of electing a prime minister.

Bush said he and Maliki agreed to seek ways to stem sectarian carnage threatening to split Iraq.

Certainly his underlings dislike the sectarian style Mr Wolfowitz seems to share with the man who appointed him.

A sectarian attack like this had been feared on what a particularly holy day for Shia Muslims.

With his Persian-accented Arabic, striking physical appearance and unflagging energy, Sadr earned respect across the sectarian divide.

In different parts of the small country vigilante groups have set up roadblocks and taken up makeshift arms, often on a sectarian basis.

The sharing of oil resources has been a point of dispute between Iraq's sectarian communities.

Still, in a speech to his deputies, Erdogan on Tuesday denied his government is following a sectarian agenda to support Sunni aims.

Even if one is found, the sectarian wounds that seemed to be healing have been dangerously reopened.

Iraqi authorities suspect the fatalities are the result of sectarian violence.

In the event of post election sectarian violence and a political breakdown, it could intervene if the civilian government loses control.

Local police said it was a sectarian attack should be, could be Sunni Muslim extremists.

If this sectarian behavior is not stopped, sooner or later it may result in a resumption of calamitous Sunni-Shi'ite violence.

More than a hundred are spread across Iraq, some with a quarter of a million members, many of them cutting across sectarian lines.

Being a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country, India faced with sectarian violence and insurgencies in different parts of the country.

Additionally, the Alexandria bombing is going to focus attention on Egypt's worsening sectarian tensions.

By sectarian I mean that we basically believed that we in my church were the only ones going to heaven.

Such sectarian undertones have been exploited by religious radicals, as well as governments, in Bahrain, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

No one is claiming all the sects love each other but there is no history of sectarian strife in Syria and little appetite for it now.

AK no longer unites the different strands of Turks, be they sectarian, ethnic or ideological, as it once did.

Prime Minister Maliki has pledged that political or sectarian interference with security operations will not be tolerated.

A few months ago, hopes were rising that cross-sectarian parties, appealing to both Sunnis and to the majority Shias, were gaining strength.

This would deepen the rifts between Iraq's Sunnis and Shias, which had slowly been healing after the sectarian bloodbath of 2006 and 2007.

Above all, Iraq needs a leader who can appeal to its Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs and Kurds, divided by a chasm of ethno-sectarian hatred.

Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife.

Local television stations are reporting few incidents of violence in a country marred by a history of sectarian conflict.

In February, the extremists bombed a holy mosque in a deliberate effort to provoke reprisals that would set off a sectarian conflict.

The fears of sectarian strife may be the reason why a good number of bloggers wrote about sectarianism this week.

In those days, though, attacking Western targets was part of a local nationalist or sectarian fight.

The veteran activists were convicted of "spreading false information, encouraging sectarian strife and weakening national sentiment. "

At least 100, 000 civilians have already been killed in an orgy of sectarian killing.

Probably the most damaging factor in the long-term is the sectarian strategy that Mr Assad led personally.

Listen carefully, and he admits that big risks lurk: a slide into violent extremism, sectarian conflict or entrenched military power.

Significantly, one should not discount the reemergence of an Alawi irredentist impulse if the country descends into sectarian strife.

ACROSS northern India, householders who were braced for a bout of violent sectarian strife are sighing with relief.

Sectarian violence still flares across the country, with bombings and shootings claiming dozens of lives each month.

Posters have been appearing on walls, warning ominously against fitna, an Arabic word for division that has sectarian overtones.

Sectarian Shia forces and those Kurds who sought near-full autonomy did less well than had been expected in the poll.

The anti-coalition insurgents have been joined by sectarian death squads whose aim is the ethnic cleansing of mixed Sunni and Shia areas.

Hazara leaders said it was the worst sectarian attack in Quetta since attacks on their community started about 14 years ago.

But as this summer's events showed, the problem is a real one, and further sectarian violence is a real possibility.

But political analyst Nasim Zahra says sectarian violence is being used as a cover for al- Qaida- linked militants to sow more chaos .

Even at this late stage, it is to be hoped that all-out civil and sectarian war can be avoided.

Naoto Kan of the sectarian forces are not strong, Ichiro Ozawa, the party's largest faction is Naoto Kan of the hostile forces.

Shiites who fled sectarian violence near their villages have found safety and shelter in a garbage-strewn slum north of Baghdad.

But Iraq's sectarian parties have not agreed to share power and wealth in a way that might draw the conflict's poison.

But as in the other Arab uprisings, economic woes and political repression, not sectarian strife, lie behind the discontent.

Bush defended his war policy, saying it has reduced sectarian violence and civilian and military deaths.

The police have proven peculiarly inept at stemming sporadic but recurrent bouts of sectarian strife.

Sectarian problems, also ironically, will fade as Muslims take control of their lives after decades of neocolonial humiliation.

Their decision to co-operate with America for the time being has had little impact on the sectarian killing and cleansing in mixed areas.

And the bombing is going to focus attention on Egypt's worsening sectarian tensions.

He led the 1st Armoured Division in Iraq into what was then a rapidly spreading anti-coalition insurgency and sectarian war.

Some Iraqis say they approve of this rush to reapply social controls. They see them as a good way to fight sectarian violence.

Concerns that the country is sliding deeper into sectarian strife spurred Bahrain to declare the three-month "state of national safety" .

If not, the bursts of sectarian violence that periodically punctuate the country could become worse.

Religious intolerance has also manifested itself in a horrifying wave of sectarian violence.

So the main race is between two moderate lists, each with a sectarian and geographic tilt.

The fortunes of insurgent groups wax and wane, their support base shrinking and expanding depending on how vulnerable sectarian groups feel.

The result was a tragic escalation of sectarian rage and reprisal that continues to this day.

Extremists from all factions could compete to fill that vacuum, causing sectarian killing to multiply on a horrific scale.

One who secedes or advocates separation, especially from an established church; a sectarian or separationist.

Political efforts to conform law or policy to narrow or sectarian teaching are often acted out coercively, not compassionately.

They have also staged some spectacular assassinations that have threatened to restart a cycle of sectarian reprisals.

Has charitable and benevolent aims and is a non-political and non-sectarian organization.

After years of sectarian violence, Iraq cannot afford to play such dangerous games.

Meanwhile, after a relative lull in terrorism, several Pakistan cities have suffered sectarian atrocities in recent weeks.

That would allow him, if elected, to cement Dawa's position ahead of the more hardline sectarian parties.

Iraqis are a proud people. They have rejected sectarian war, and they have no interest in endless destruction.

Unlike in neighbouring Iraq, sectarian rifts have not so far played a big role in Syria's attempt at regime change.

Khaled Ahmed, author of "Sectarian War" , a new book on religious violence in Pakistan, says all three elements work closely together.

This in turn has led to calls for sectarian militias to return to the streets to protect citizens.

Publicly acknowledge all parties are responsible for quelling sectarian violence.

Having looked into the abyss, Iraqis know, and are keen to avoid, the dangers of sectarian division.

As a result, sectarian tensions have already spilled over into Lebanon, further polarizing Sunni-Shi'a relations throughout the region.

If the main affliction of Iraq is a sectarian civil war, might partition be the solution?

Mr. Bush says recent weeks have been "rough" for U. S. forces in Iraq, amid a spike in sectarian violence in the country.

In other words, what I'm reading in 1 John is representing again a radical sectarian group.

The rapid development of the Gelug Sect, to the Karma sect correction brought the crisis, a sectarian struggle is inevitable.

But the mood has nonetheless become more sectarian. Hostile references to the Alawites are becoming more common.

Sectarian tension and fear of foreign influence have been growing, long before the Egyptian upheaval.

Post-Saddam Iraq has had genuine multiparty elections but is mired in corruption, violence and sectarian strife.

For example, I grew up in a very, very sectarian fundamentalist church in Texas.

An end to all forms of sectarianism and all sectarian intimidation, attacks and killings.

"Only one or two censuses in the world . . . have ever asked the sectarian question, " said Grim.

They are the three Arab countries that have experienced massive sectarian violence and the horrors of civil war themselves.

Even as America tries to reduce sectarian violence, its soldiers still come under attack by Sunnis and Shias alike.

Neighbouring governments this time must also do more to dampen sectarian and ethnic tensions.

But getting from here to there requires crossing a minefield of tribal, sectarian and governance issues.

Mr Maliki had hoped to change the violent and divisively sectarian nature of Iraqi politics.

and where there is a sectarian difference between the perpetrators' community and the target community.

Under the association's new doctrine, these sectarian creeds are shielded from scrutiny by the scientific method.

Sectarian clashes, a dismal feature of Egyptian life for more than a decade, have risen alarmingly.

The recent string of protests is just the latest episode of sectarian strife that has gripped Egypt this year.

It will soon become clear whether the crackdown can stem the sectarian bloodbath.

Police saythemutilated corpses discovered early today had bullet wounds and were most likely victims of sectarian violence.

So far, the ongoing violence in Iraq doesn't point to such sectarian peace soon.

Sectarian violence, between members of different religious sects.

This angered many Iraqi Sunnis and increased sectarian tensions, even though more Shias are on the list.

Yet fears of a sectarian meltdown are overblown.

Their governments benefited from sectarian unity, which they maintained through bullying and haggling.

He called al-Qaeda "enemy number one" , because its mass murders had ignited sectarian violence.

The rally comes after Muslim-Christian clashes left 12 dead over the weekend in sectarian fighting.

The slide towards ever greater violence has an increasingly sectarian flavour.

But the pieces of Lebanon's complex sectarian puzzle have been shaken since then.

People can talk about civil war in Iraq. People can complain about a sectarian divide in Iraq.

Most of the violence in Iraq though is either sectarian between Sunni and ShiiteMuslims or ethnic between Arabs and Kurds.

But Iraq has yet to pass an oil revenue-sharing law, something that could tamp down major sectarian strife.

Oppose an incorrect , sectarian policy on cadres, and uphold the correct policy on cadres.

In that happening, some sectarian violence, it is happened between the terrorist and some political members.

Many Lebanese fear that an indictment of Hizballah personnel could lead to sectarian clashes between rival Sunni and Shi'ite factions.

After sectarian strife engulfed Bahrain this year, however, a problem arose.

In any event, the report may be too late to halt Bahrain's downward spiral of sectarian enmity.

Al-Qaida in Iraq was behind many of the bombings in a drive to escalate sectarian violence.

But the state has a black spot, which dates back to 2002 and an outbreak of sectarian violence.

Only the Iraqis can end the sectarian violence and secure their people.

Lebanon's fractured politics and history of sudden sectarian bloodshed placed it reasonably at 43, fifth among Arab states.

If a more harshly sectarian Shia-led government emerges, a wider Sunni insurgency could yet be rekindled.

Several were shot at funerals. Others died in what are described as sectarian clashes.

Rioting erupted in Sunni areas, along with sectarian skirmishes that claimed ten lives.

Ireland's entry into the EU helped to end the worst of Northern Ireland's sectarian war.

This time, Iraqi and American forces will have a green light to enter neighborhoods that are home to those fueling sectarian violence.

These societies are not fragmented by tribal or sectarian conflicts.

If a Shia-led coalition took shape without Sunni co-operation, sectarian resentment will worsen, and violence could increase again.

Those early protests sparked a crackdown and exposed a deep sectarian divide.

With Iraq to the east and Lebanon to the west, fears of sectarian strife loom large in Syria.

It's a tough, sectarian system with many deeply anti-American forces in ascendancy.

They have rejected sectarian war, and they have no interest in endless destruction.

But their attacks are stirring up deep-seated Syrian fears of sectarian strife, and the government is playing on this.

Southern Punjab is a notorious hub of sectarian and jihadi activity.

The other major recorded tally is of 34, 814 victims of sectarian killings, recorded as murders in the logs.

The regime has been playing on sectarian fears, allegedly unleashing the Shabiha, an Alawite militia, on protesters.

Maliki's Shi'ite supporters have also taken to the streets, in what is becoming escalating sectarian strife.

The US warning was imposed in November 2000 after a series of terrorist attacks and an eruption of sectarian conflicts.

The Iraqi government is asking for help to quell sectarian violence.

sectarian cleansing in mixed areas is happening apace.

It feeds on sectarian strife, lax policing and anti-Western hatred.

In order to make progress toward this goal, the Iraqi government must stop the sectarian violence in its capital.

Karachi has seen bursts of ethnic and sectarian violence.

The possibility of Iraq-style sectarian conflict is real.

Local police were protecting the procession because of regular sectarian attacks on Shiite Muslims, a minority sect in Pakistan.

With sectarian tensions primed by that show of Shiite power, the parliamentary election on March 7, 2010, produced a stalemate.

If they did, it could presage a step back towards the bloody sectarian strife that dipped sharply after 2007.

The scene is set for more sectarian tensions.

This--what made this group a sectarian group was we had very firm boundaries.

He may get some votes from Sunnis who think he should be rewarded for stabilising the country after the sectarian bloodbath of 2006.

In Homs, Syria's third city, sectarian strife has taken an ugly turn.

In this deadly terrain, Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia are poisonously sectarian.

It is sectarian or factional or financed by the Americans.

Fear of sectarian strife lurks under Syria's surface.

In all these Puranas the goddess Lakshmi is given a laudable place without any sectarian dispute.

The era of sectarian division, they all insist, is over.

Goingforward, we will continue to provide training and support for Iraqisecurity forces that are capable and non-sectarian.

Popular sympathy, which drained away because of sectarian killings in Iraq, has dwindled further this year.

Q: Many people were killed and injured recently during a major sectarian clash in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.

Thought has divided people as nations, as sectarian religions, as "we" and "they" , as communist and non-communist.

He, like many others, fears a return of sectarian war.

But he is worried about rising sectarian hatred in the city.

The three that look most genuinely post-sectarian may well be the strongest.

Perhaps it is better described as "non-sectarian. "

Both the government and opposition accuse each other of encouraging sectarian violence.

Perhaps most important, the gangs raise the spectre of sectarian war, as seen in Iraq or Lebanon.

Between 1947 and 1954, Syria held three national elections that all broke down more or less according to these regional and sectarian lines.

Lebanon, briefly euphoric under the banner of people-power six years ago, is torn by sectarian rivalry.

What's a non-sectarian nation to do?

There is thus a risk of sectarian tensions worsening as time goes on.

Creating inter-sectarian divisions in the population, such as attacking Christian targets, is also likely.

This is again a radically sectarian kind of stance, and in fact, there's nothing here about loving outsiders.

We have a vicious Sunni-Shia sectarian strife.

On the other hand, the leaders of three non-sectarian alliances are making more of a buzz on the street.

They should unite, and resist the tricks of the occupation in fomenting sectarian strive, which is foreign to our country.

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