But in each of these cases, cross-sectarian popular movements morphed into sectarian conflicts.
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The most notable aspect of the Lebanese protests was its anti-sectarian rhetoric and cross-sectarian participation.
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In the meantime, the growing sectarian polarization across the region will primarily benefit Islamic State, which is promoting a sectarian narrative.
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Toning down the regional rivalry could also ease sectarian tensions, allowing protest movements to reach those who would join them but don't out of fears of sectarian threats.
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You can see this, for example, in how Saudi Arabia funded Sunni extremists in Syria, helping to turn an initially non-sectarian civil war into a sectarian conflict.
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By the time ISIS showed up in Mosul, the city was being protected by a zealously sectarian Shiite force overseen by Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's zealously sectarian Shiite Prime Minister.
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Years of internecine sectarian violence had inflamed the Sunni-Shia tensions Saddam Hussein had so ruthlessly quashed, and provided a vengeful appetite for the kind of sectarian loathing ISIS would come to represent.
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It enshrined sectarian identity as an unwritten basis of power-sharing — a Shiite prime minister, a Kurdish president and a Sunni speaker of Parliament — solidifying sectarian divisions and undermining meritocracy or electoral legitimacy.
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The Hashid deny having sectarian aims or committing widespread abuses.
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So the regime stoked sectarian tensions to divide the opposition.
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In decades past, sectarian differences certainly did fuel intercommunal mistrust.
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Barr's sectarian vision only pushes us toward a darker path.
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Even in parliament unusual alliances are forming across sectarian lines.
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Most Lebanese voters are influenced by sectarian and familial allegiances.
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But their sectarian nature means they are hardly ideal models.
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ISIS often tries to sow sectarian violence in its attacks.
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The war became a sectarian battle pitting Shiites against Sunnis.
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Decades of sectarian violence have left a warped political structure.
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In a society divided along sectarian lines, this takes time.
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They say sectarian tensions and political reform must be addressed.
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The Kurds, the other major sectarian group, are similarly disaffected.
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Syria is effectively partitioned along sectarian and ethnic fault lines.
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The conflict has also come to resemble a sectarian cataclysm.
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He called the image a disgusting example of sectarian politics.
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And the whole of Lebanese politics plays the sectarian chord.
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Context: Sectarian violence has a long history in Sri Lanka.
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Now we have no independent press, only sectarian Houthi publications.
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Also converging in Aleppo is the region's rising sectarian split.
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During Hamada's detention, the revolution had become a sectarian war.
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But complaints from fighters and commanders in the National Mobilisation force about lack of weapons from the Baghdad government highlights sectarian faultlines that could undermine the offensive and chances for sectarian and ethnic harmony.
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A refreshing counter to sectarian strife In a country torn apart by sectarian struggle, this secular society provides a refreshing countercurrent, a sanctuary to 2 million refugees from the rest of Syria and Iraq.
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The Tamil Tigers were a secular organization, but a sectarian one.
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This favours the dominant sectarian parties and keeps the status quo.
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Central African Republic has been rocked by sectarian violence since 2013.
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Under Sisi, the official rhetoric changed but the sectarian strife continued.
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There are fears that reintroducing border checks could reignite sectarian violence.
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Hitherto, Indonesian Muslims have not been easily swayed by sectarian arguments.
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Sceptics remember Candidate Trump stoking sectarian rage on the campaign trail.
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In this most sectarian of countries everyone stands together, for now.
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Enough of war and warlords and the sectarian politics of fear!
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If they are held by Shias it will trigger sectarian violence.
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They are almost homogeneously Sunni, free of the region's sectarian divides.
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Abadi, a conciliatory technocrat, took office promising to reduce sectarian polarization.
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Sectarian affiliation did not determine membership, and political talk was forbidden.
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The prime minister must be a Sunni in Lebanon's sectarian system.
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In this case there was no sectarian element to the story.
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The surprising result signals growing discontent with Iraq's sectarian old guard.
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Sectarian leaders provide jobs, cover hospital fees and pay for schooling.
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Then Iraq's politicians stoked sectarian divisions, leading to yet more violence.
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Yet he remains the leading Sunni figure in Lebanon's sectarian system.
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What constitutes a sectarian song, and what is merely cultural expressionism?
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However, no one is forecasting a relapse into serious sectarian violence.
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In Northern Ireland people tended to underestimate the real sectarian differences.
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The cemetery is non-sectarian, according to the Sunset Hill website.
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The cause of Iraq's political paralysis is neither ideological nor sectarian.
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Lebanon's sectarian political system lies at the heart of the problem.
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Now, a wider insurgency risks stoking militant Buddhism and sectarian conflict.
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Instead, he has ruled by stoking ideological, social and sectarian divisions.
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And sectarian violence is the biggest kind of opposition to that.
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Around Aleppo, sectarian battle cries can be heard on both sides.
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But much of its history has been marred by sectarian tensions.
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Sectarian fear, distrust, and violence now exists at a grassroots level.
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It can also provide support for sectarian schools — and for temples.
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It is the worst sectarian violence Delhi has seen in decades.
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They don't have political and sectarian shields that previous ministers enjoyed.
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The post is reserved for a Sunni in Lebanon's sectarian system.
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But I no longer fear that demonetization will exacerbate sectarian divides.
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Even with these sectarian appeals, a majority of voters stayed home.
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The new Brexit arrangement, they say, threatens to inflame sectarian tensions.
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Turkey's own presence in Iraq has also helped inflame sectarian passions.
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The second kind of nationalism -- sectarian nationalism -- is pernicious and dangerous.
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Fighting -- along ethnic and sectarian lines -- has wracked CAR since 2013.
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Seats in parliament are divided according to a strict sectarian quota.
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Whatever West's mistakes: sectarian war was a choice Iraqis made for themselves.
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Lebanon's political system requires government positions to be allotted along sectarian lines.
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Granted, the country is not Lebanon or Iraq, riven by sectarian feuds.
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Turkey has repeatedly warned the operation in Mosul could unleash sectarian strife.
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It also has few ethnic or sectarian rifts to polarise national politics.
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Many were warlords during the sectarian-fuelled civil war of 1975-90.
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Many fear a new one would inflame sectarian tensions—for good reason.
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Hindu nationalists are rejecting facts in a "sectarian repackaging of the past".
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Prime Minister Abadi's government insists its focus is on ending sectarian strife.
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For decades, Iran has fueled the fires of sectarian conflict and terror.
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His family is Alawite, but Adonis has never claimed a sectarian identity.
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It also incentivizes political parties to organize around ethnic and sectarian identity.
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"It is a sectarian killing," senior police officer Abdullah Afridi told Reuters.
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The move could be aimed at controlling any outbreaks of sectarian animosity.
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"From now on, I will only talk in sectarian terms," he said.
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At the same time, Turkey's presence has inflamed sectarian passions within Iraq.
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Their participation in the coming offensive could heighten sectarian and regional tensions.
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Then installing a sectarian government who made life for non-Shiites hell.
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But the worst act of sectarian bloodshed, in November 2017, targeted Muslims.
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They were weaving red, white, and royal blue; proudly sectarian, Protestant colors.
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It warned of the growing sectarian strife between Egypt's Christians and Muslims.
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To enact lasting change, Lebanon's protesters must uproot the sectarian system entirely.
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The Arab uprisings in 2011 seemed to temporarily sideline the sectarian narrative.
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The sectarian situation allows this issue to be swept under the rug.
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It collapsed in 2017 amid sectarian rifts over cultural and social issues.
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The Druze are an important minority in Lebanon's sectarian system of government.
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Galvanizing diverse groups for counter-terrorism efforts or effective governance of multi-sectarian states, as well as successfully completing historically complex peace talks, such as the ongoing dialogues regarding Yemen and Syria, necessitate the downplaying of sectarian differences.
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Lebanon&aposs relative tolerance emerges in part from its sectarian and ethnic diversity.
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Officials and analysts have raised concerns about sectarian violence in the Mosul operation.
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Shaw exposes how sectarian cults use spiritualism and esoteric language to enlist believers.
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The next sectarian Islamist battlefront is likely Yemen, which possesses significant geostrategic importance.
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The prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim according to Lebanon's sectarian system.
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Instead, analysts feared it would increase sectarian divisions and investment in proxy wars.
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But if Shia militias are unleashed another bout of sectarian killings might ensue.
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A bloodbath ensued, one whose seemingly infinite sectarian hatred Baghdadi sought to harness.
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The post is reserved for his sect under Lebanon's sectarian system of rule.
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His American backers hope that he will build a pluralist, non-sectarian Iraq.
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The emphasis on Protestantism belies the museum's claim that it is non-sectarian.
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The "sectarian elements" of the monument, she wrote, "easily overwhelm the secular ones".
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Following decades of repression, any attempt to improve sectarian relations will take time.
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The question now is whether al Nimr's execution will inflame existing sectarian tensions.
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" They ban state aid to schools and other institutions deemed "sectarian" or "denominational.
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Fostering cross-sectarian cooperation could help to avoid marginalizing minorities and counter extremism.
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For Iraq, sectarian divisions and the battle against extremism work at cross purposes.
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"Our politicians are trying to divide the movement down sectarian lines," Eimear explained.
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More important, a new government would be beholden to the corrupt, sectarian Parliament.
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Meanwhile, Iran continues to be deeply involved in the sectarian fighting in Iraq.
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Sectarian leaders have lost their cause celebre and their political power has dissipated.
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Hundreds of thousands of people retreated into separate enclaves controlled by sectarian militias.
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Its main priority at the time was sectarian warfare and fighting foreign invaders.
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Iraq was consumed by sectarian violence, but their lives in America were stable.
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Thousands of Pakistanis have been killed in sectarian violence in the last decade.
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No cuisine is more prone to regional pride and sectarian strife than barbecue.
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The B.J.P. has proposed a number of laws with a troublingly sectarian cast.
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Also notable in its absence was the complete lack of Iraqi sectarian symbols.
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A revolt broke out in the 1560s based on sectarian and other issues.
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People were divided on sectarian lines and Catholics were deemed to be disloyal.
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Mennonites, seen here in Indian Creek, Belize, are a traditionally sectarian Christian denomination.
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He is running his own coalition, which, like Mr. Abadi's, is cross-sectarian.
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The Islamic State grew out of a sectarian war that Tehran has backed.
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Both states are responsible for deepening the sectarian fault lines in the region.
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Additionally, Afghanistan doesn't feature the deep sectarian cleavages found in Iraq and Syria.
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Under Mr. Erdogan, however, there has been no mass sectarian violence against Alevis.
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Sectarian strife and instability, a worry in itself, also matters for the economy.
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Nationalist rage, often with sectarian overtones, dominates the world of India's WhatsApp messages.
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Myanmar has experienced sectarian violence between the majority Buddhist population and minority Muslims.
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The impulsion outward disappears; they grow isolated and doctrinaire, more sectarian than evangelical.
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Lebanon's prime minister must be a Sunni under its sectarian power-sharing system.
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Because sectarian politicians and affiliated sectarian media often scapegoat personalities and individual rivals rather than address broader, more complicated public service problems — which could implicate the attackers' own side as well — such projects are seldom investigated and proceed with little oversight.
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Among activists from the Gulf region, some of the more thoughtful responses insisted that the sheikh saw himself as a campaigner for human rights, not as a lobbyist for any sectarian cause; it was therefore wrong to respond in sectarian terms.
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These are designed to inflame sectarian hatred and divert their adversaries' resources to defense.
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Bloody sectarian strife followed, and with it came threats on Bushra's and Mazin's lives.
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By the end of 2011, the protests had degenerated into a sectarian civil war.
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They are unable to travel to access feed due to sectarian tensions, he said.
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The fighting has fueled fears over a possible upsurge in ethnic and sectarian violence.
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"For decades, Iran has fueled the fires of sectarian conflict and terror," he said.
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The clumsy circumlocution is a way of avoiding any hint of stoking sectarian unrest.
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At stake is the ethno-sectarian system America installed after its invasion in 2003.
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Deep-running animosity and distrust between the two sides is fueled by sectarian divides.
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It was a brutal sectarian struggle that took hundreds of thousands of lives. 4.
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With Shiite militias in the fight, there is a good chance of sectarian strife.
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But there's a current of poor commentary that's more sectarian than the situation itself.
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Sectarian murals and paramilitary flags create what NIHE calls a "chill factor", deterring outsiders.
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Lebanon's multi-confessional makeup has meant that protesters have usually organized around sectarian lines.
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People here all talk in a sectarian way: He's Sunni, he's Shiite, he's Kurdish.
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The children dutifully recited poems praising him as their rescuer from Iraq's sectarian conflict.
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During the 1990s around 550 people were killed as a result of sectarian violence.
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Paramilitary gangs on both sides of the sectarian divide are active in organised crime.
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While other cities indulged in occasional bouts of sectarian bloodletting, Aleppo welcomed all comers.
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Sectarian divides have made it difficult for groups to travel across the various rifts.
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ISIS has shown great skill in exploiting sectarian tensions and terrorizing communities into submission.
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Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia and Shiite-majority Iran have long had a sectarian feud.
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All state courts need do is brand a disfavored denomination as "sectarian" and—presto!
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And Syria's sectarian and ethnic jigsaw is far more complicated than Bosnia's ever was.
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Sectarian violence often accompanies Muslim claims that Christians are trying to build new churches.
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Even where there is no Shia-Sunni sectarian divide, there are still proxy conflicts.
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For America to start taking sides in such theological disputes risks inflaming sectarian tensions.
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Despite such provocations, the protests so far have been remarkably peaceful and non-sectarian.
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There is no path to reverse the public mood that has surpassed sectarian differences.
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Second, the conflict in Yemen is NOT sectarian in nature — at least not yet.
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As the war has worsened, many Syrians have based their allegiance on sectarian identity.
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Later, Iraq's Shiite-dominated government grew increasingly authoritarian and sectarian, alienating the minority Sunni.
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Kuwait is predominantly Sunni, but Sunnis and Shiites live together with few sectarian tensions.
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Political assassinations and civil unrest threatened to drag Tunisia into violence and sectarian strife.
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Both countries frequently exploit this by pushing a sectarian worldview of Sunni versus Shia.
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Lebanon's prime minister has to be a Sunni under its sectarian power sharing system.
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Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Robin Swann rejected the possibility of revived sectarian conflict.
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Refugees bring with them sectarian and ethnic rivalries that make little sense in Europe.
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Ethnic and sectarian tensions already existed, but their translation into political currency was toxic.
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Every summer, ritualized marches and bonfires inflame tensions, setting off riots and sectarian violence.
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But the attacks on truffle hunters reflect a renewed emphasis on inciting sectarian tensions.
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The pact has at times been tenuous, but the sectarian violence has mostly subsided.
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All the principal characters have lost loved ones to government, military or sectarian violence.
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This is not going to help anything other than adding to the sectarian divide.
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One of the world's most heterogeneous countries, it has no history of sectarian unrest.
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Tunisia lacks the sectarian conflicts in Iraq, but its democratic future is not guaranteed.
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Mr. Abadi's coalition is a cross-sectarian alliance of mostly politicians, businessmen and academics.
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Only Lebanese flags are raised at the demonstrations — no partisan flags or sectarian symbols.
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But they are not sectarian demonstrations; instead, this is a show of Iraqi nationalism.
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"It is a sectarian target killing," senior police officer Syed Attaullah Shah told Reuters.
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Until now, Muslims had largely remained quiet, hoping that sectarian relations could be restored.
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If you're a deeply divided or sectarian society, there's more danger of spiraling downward.
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But he's careful not to embrace the harshest sectarian rhetoric of most hardline jihadists.
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In the enduring conflict, fissures have begun to emerge along sectarian lines — a worrying sign, said Muslimi, who in a recent piece for Carnegie pointed to groups on both sides that have begun branding militias and brigades after sectarian or regional names.
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Alongside high-minded debate, a great nation's birth-pains included sectarian rage and political terror.
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There is no deep sectarian divide in Libya, as there is in some Muslim countries.
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But mostly, Khadir resents the Shia-dominated government in Baghdad for playing to sectarian tensions.
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The Mopti region in central Mali has been beset by sectarian violence in recent months.
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Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen's Houthis, a group of Shia rebels, stirs sectarian tensions.
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The administration must also conform with sectarian power-sharing quotas among Christian and Muslim sects.
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"It will spur another sectarian civil war until Iraq falls apart," says a militia leader.
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But the tenacity of the sectarian system has been on repeated display in recent days.
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But as befits the country's tortuously sectarian system of government, various groups have a foothold.
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The businessmen running the units are often connected to sectarian leaders, who take a cut.
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There is still sectarian prejudice in parts of Europe, but much less than there was.
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In 1972, the bloodiest year of the Troubles, 498 people were killed in sectarian violence.
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Hizbullah's pan-Arab appeal has been damaged by its role in Syria's sectarian-hued conflict.
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An annual pilgrimage of people, united in spite of sectarian beliefs, regional divisions and rivalries.
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"It's only the Iranian that looks at this problem through a sectarian prism," he said.
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Dugin may simply be the latest far-right sectarian loony to see hope in Trump.
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Acting to reverse Iran's sectarian cleansing inside Syria will best achieve both of these goals.
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Mr Mubarak stood by as relations between Christians and Muslims deteriorated and sectarian violence increased.
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He would goad the Shias into a sectarian war that would "awaken" the Sunni world.
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Green deserves credit for managing the difficult deliverance of aid in a complex sectarian environment.
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During the recent election, Iraqi politicians emphasized the need to move beyond pure sectarian alignments.
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But, for many bureaucrats, continuing in their duties meant participating in a sectarian criminal enterprise.
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Northern Ireland's Ulster Unionist Party leader Robin Swann rejected the possibility of revived sectarian conflict.
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Policymaking has regained some momentum, although still faces the constraints of Lebanon's sectarian political system.
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It controls numerous militias that undermine the authority of the state and pursue sectarian aims.
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Nimr was arrested in 2012 and convicted of inciting sectarian strife, sedition and other charges.
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But that stability and sacrifice was squandered by the sectarian policies of Mr. Maliki's government.
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Local strongmen openly promote factional, ethnic and identity politics, stoking dangerous sectarian tendencies and polarization.
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You have a sectarian war that has been laid on top of a civil war.
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Context: Much of Sri Lanka's history has been marred by sectarian tensions and civil war.
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Whether it can survive its own descent into sectarian and ideological tribalism is another matter.
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Their objective would remain to exploit sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shia, both analysts said.
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This could potentially pull the United States into the sectarian struggle between Sunni and Shia.
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Money flowed for radical Buddhist groups that cheered on sectarian rioting in which Muslims died.
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As the country descended into sectarian conflict, Shiite communities looked to Iran as a protector.
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Erdogan has warned of sectarian bloodshed if the Iraqi army relies on Shi'ite militia fighters.
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Instead, most of the electioneering focused on mobilizing sectarian sentiments among Lebanon's 21989 million people.
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These are divides that sectarian-focused terror organizations like ISIS need in order to thrive.
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The Taliban are a Sunni Muslim, mainly ethnic Pashtun movement but deny any sectarian agenda.
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In any event, only bold institutional reforms could correct the system's authoritarian and sectarian features.
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The violence smacks of sectarian prejudice because Mr. Sisi's support stems from Egypt's Muslim majority.
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It was a stark reminder of the sectarian wellspring the Islamic State hopes to exploit.
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"It's a sectarian war and don't let anyone tell you that it's not," he said.
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"The sectarian issue was always there, but we were insulated from all that," Ayyub said.
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Ayad Allawi, a secular nationalist who headed a cross-sectarian coalition, had defeated al-Maliki.
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Yes, I think that there's a terrible situation where there's underlying sectarian violence and intention.
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Traditional July and August marches are seen as a barometer of those relations and annual parades last month that frequently trigger sectarian violence were among the most peaceful since a 1998 peace deal ended three decades of sectarian fighting in which 3,600 people died.
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That means that politicians — many of whom are the same warlords that led sectarian militias during the Lebanese civil war — haven't been able to exploit the sectarian divisions that have kept certain families in power for generations (every politician grooms his sons to follow him).
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And it's a very complex city in terms of the ethnic and sectarian groups and tribes.
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Time and again in UP, such talk has helped turn ordinary scuffles into ugly sectarian clashes.
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The OFBA was designed to criminalise offensive and threatening conduct, including sectarian behaviour, related to football.
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Abadi's predecessor Nuri al-Maliki who was accused of pursuing a sectarian agenda while in office.
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An economic crash could destabilise a country already swamped with refugees and plagued by sectarian divides.
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But a speech he gave to fishermen in late September has set off a sectarian furore.
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But with a large Shi'ite minority, Pakistan has a lot to lose from rising sectarian tensions.
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The SDLP's leader, Colum Eastwood, says he wants a non-sectarian deal between anti-Brexit parties.
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"God willing, this will be the beginning of the end of the sectarian system," said Hariri.
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Imagine for a moment that you run a small country prone to outbreaks of sectarian violence.
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Speaking to reporters after meeting Jaafari, Jubeir stated Riyadh's willingness to help bridge the sectarian divide.
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Kurdish leaders kept their territory relatively free of the sectarian bloodshed that plagued most of Iraq.
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The only way the school could function was to leave all sectarian agendas at the door.
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Sectarian hate-crimes have fallen by more than half since 2005, when they started being recorded.
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But Muhammad bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, is shaking the kingdom from its sectarian logic.
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Trump's long-term problem is that this sort of sectarian appeal will alienate the larger electorate.
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ISIS sprung from the rage of Sunnis at the sectarian bias of Iraq's Shiite-dominated government.
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Assad views Christians as a sectarian card used to preserve his interests and preserve his regime.
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Al-Nimr was convicted of inciting sectarian strife, sedition and breaking allegiance with the Saudi ruler.
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The dictionaries of the time show that "sectarian" carried negative meanings of dissent, bigotry, and heresy.
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Trump flirts with sectarian rhetoric, but he corrals it to themes of crime, employment, and trade.
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Shiite-majority Iran and Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia have long been embroiled in a sectarian feud.
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Ahmadis must hope that the brutal sectarian murder of Asad Shah will remain an isolated incident.
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In a matter of weeks, the entire town was reduced to rubble during fierce sectarian warfare.
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The war has stoked sectarian tensions and become a proxy battle for regional and global interests.
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Lebanon's prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim according to the country's sectarian power-sharing system.
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She also cited a special program to promote community reconciliation in areas with strong sectarian tensions.
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Foreigners have often made things worse; America's invasion of Iraq in 2003 released its sectarian demons.
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An estimated 212,303 Christians fled the mountains – the single biggest sectarian displacement of the civil war.
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Lebanon's warlords ended a 15-year civil war in 1990 with a sectarian power-sharing agreement.
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Protesters blame officials and a sectarian governance system for the miserable conditions endured by many Iraqis.
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But in the long term, curtailing free expression for sectarian political purposes is dangerous for democracy.
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Sadr, in a Tweet, urged MPs not to approve ministerial candidates seen as partisan or sectarian.
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What's missing is the gritty scenic detail that would correspond to Meyerbeer's fugues of sectarian fury.
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Syria's authoritarian government favored Alawites and other minorities, widening social and political divides along sectarian lines.
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Sectarian tensions, which erupted into civil war in 2006-2007, are still a major security threat.
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But sectarian violence took on its own inevitable momentum, hastening the country's slide into civil war.
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But so is the real old troubled world of tribes, clans and a yawning sectarian divide.
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Nimr had been convicted of inciting sectarian strife, sedition and other charges following his 2012 arrest.
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Alhamadee is convinced these sectarian and ethnic fiefdoms can only survive in the chaos of war.
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The USCIRF has documented sectarian violence in India that commission researchers claim has increased under Modi.
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Helen's John spoke of "adulterous women" and the age-old sectarian violence of Celtic and Rangers.
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More recently, Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shiite cleric, deeply angering Iran and igniting sectarian tensions.
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The group has exploited sectarian grievances to brand their state-building project as a liberation movement.
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But the group's sectarian focus did not keep it from oppressing Sunni civilians under its rule.
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Sri Lankans have grown unhappy with economic stagnation and social unrest, including outbursts of sectarian violence.
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In Iraq's deeply sectarian system, he doesn't expect much from the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad.
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"We believe in democratic process," said Mr. Farooqi, who denies that he is behind sectarian violence.
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In the end, Qatar managed to make enemies on both sides of the worsening sectarian divide.
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Its work crosses sectarian, political, and other boundaries that often limit cultural dialogue in the country.
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They said they were also looking into whether there were sectarian motives behind the latest attack.
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Modern social media added fuel to the sectarian fires still smoldering after the country's civil strife.
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Those impulses can drive not just social media outrage but real-world lynchings and sectarian fury.
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That separatist movement, and the sectarian and political resentment that drove it, never really went away.
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It's that his base – left-leaning voters under 30 – is far too narrow and too sectarian.
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Many years of sectarian and tribal infighting has made the country a breeding ground for terrorists.
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Rwigara's mother Adeline was also arrested on charges of discrimination and sectarian practices and inciting insurrection.
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To stop it from aggravating, we need a clearer understanding of the forces driving sectarian conflict.
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Qureshi said he feared Soleimani's death could trigger an upsurge in sectarian tensions, including in Afghanistan.
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After decades of sectarian misrule, however, Iraqis are seeking unity at home and emancipation from Iran.
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This is a sectarian politics of subtraction, and it can only lead to disaster in November.
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Waves of sectarian violence have swept through the city since the American-led invasion in 2003.
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Now, after several regional wars and a surge in sectarian strife, that consensus has been shattered.
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Four centuries later, Lewes celebrates the event in a night carnival with strange, sometimes sectarian, undertones.
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This only worsens the instability of the region and threatens the further escalation of sectarian conflict.
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Rwigara's mother, Adeline, was also arrested on charges of discrimination and sectarian practices and inciting insurrection.
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Case files seen by Reuters on several other sectarian attacks in Shikarpur also single him out.
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As a Muslim from Mumbai, she has lived on the country's sectarian divide her whole life.
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"No sectarian riot ever happens in India unless the government wants it to," Mander told me.
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Bahrain's Sunni sectarian monarchy stripped citizenship from 50 Shia political activists and journalists in February 2015.
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Iran-backed militias sowed "terrorism and sectarian strife" between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims, the communique said.
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This thousand-page tome outlines the sectarian factions that coalesced during the civil war in Lebanon.
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In Northern Ireland, where the fragile 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended decades of sectarian conflict is predicated on membership in the European Union and an open border with Ireland, the decision not to give its Parliament a vote risks aggravating the sectarian divide, officials said.
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But since pro-democracy protests erupted in March 2011, Syrians detect a more sectarian approach to policymaking.
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It's a pillar of the Good Friday Agreement, which curtailed decades of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.
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It can cut through the sectarian media bubbles where more and more of us get our information.
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Consolidating the dominance of the presidency will exacerbate the ideological, ethnic and sectarian polarization plaguing Turkish society.
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Syria has been engulfed in a civil war for six years marked by Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict.
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As the vessel chugged across the Mediterranean in July, a feud erupted among the country's sectarian leaders.
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India remains a secular country, yet some laws proposed by the BJP bear a disturbingly sectarian tint.
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All that Syria has to offer outsiders is a chance to participate in a sectarian civil war.
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The executions were likely to stoke further regional and sectarian tensions between rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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The militias have also been accused of a host of abuses, including kidnappings and sectarian revenge killings.
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The Saudi public's support for the glut of executions is not just a matter of sectarian affiliation.
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Iraq's fight against ISIS is not a sectarian war between Iraqis but a nation's struggle against terrorism.
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Aoun and Hariri said they believed the country's sectarian system has failed, but offered no political concessions.
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In 2015, he founded non-sectarian opposition party Mouwatinoun wa Mouwatinat fi Dawla (Citizens in a State).
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There are "no questions at the door", he says; the gathering is non-denominational and non-sectarian.
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The sectarian concerns the BJP has been stirring up during the election campaign are a harmful distraction.
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But mistrust still runs deep in Iraq, which exploded into a sectarian civil war in 2006-2007.
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Anies Baswedan, one of his rivals, embraced their shameless attempt to stir up sectarian tension, and won.
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The Taif agreement that ended Lebanon's long civil war in 1989 disarmed all sectarian militias bar Hizbullah's.
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Iraq is an extreme case, and in previous years, the violence led to all-out sectarian conflict.
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Gulf states, overcoming decades-long sectarian and security fears, have restored diplomatic relations and want to invest.
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Iraq's dominant religious parties used to flaunt their sectarian loyalties to get out the vote at elections.
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This was the matter at the heart of three decades of sectarian violence known as the Troubles.
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His photo is sadly not the first of a Syrian child suffering from this interminable sectarian chaos.
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A microcosm of wider sectarian tensions, the town has become the epicenter of Shia anger in Saudi.
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Dozens have been killed in sectarian violence that has seen homes and churches set alight and bombed.
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Mosul, once a thriving trade hub and center for higher learning, is especially sensitive to sectarian tensions.
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Sadr led an anti-American Shi'ite militia during Iraq's 2003-2011 U.S. occupation and sectarian civil war.
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With or without a visa ban, more refugee crises await unless Iran's sectarian cleansing projects are reversed.
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A Dundee judge even called it "mince" after a Celtic supporter was cleared of singing sectarian songs.
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In a region plagued by sectarian violence, residents of the capital have lived in a peaceful oasis.
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Waves of sectarian violence have swept through the Iraqi capital since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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Iraq needs a leader who can respond to cross-sectarian demands without resorting to violence or marginalization.
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It is clearly in Iraq's strategic interests to diversify its relationships beyond reflexive sectarian or ideological lines.
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The post of prime minister is reserved for a Sunni Muslim in Lebanon's sectarian power sharing system.
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Militants, particularly sectarian groups, have also launched a campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations of minority Shias.
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It spawned competing sectarian and ethnic militias which jostled to dominate the Middle East after the Ottomans.
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The bombing was claimed by Islamic State and is the latest sectarian attack in the restive province.
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His fighters played a leading role in the brutal sectarian war that raged between 2005 and 2006.
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So information that could spark up any form of sectarian crisis, the government really frowns at it.
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One odious figure, Saddam Hussein, was toppled when America invaded Iraq in 2003, releasing its sectarian demons.
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Congress spokesman Sanjay Jha said Shah's remarks were a deliberate attempt to polarise voters along sectarian lines.
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Concerns about renewed sectarian tensions and political divisions surrounding a possible border have returned to the fore.
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But within three days, the site was appropriated and occupied by the dominant sectarian parties and militias.
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Hundreds of thousands of Hindus left Kashmir, or were killed in violent sectarian clashes, in the 1990s.
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The political, social and sectarian issues in these countries that gave rise to the group still exist.
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Amidst a wider war, Syria may deteriorate further into sectarian conflict, and entrench Russia's dominant external role.
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It's set in the '90s during the Troubles — the three-decade sectarian conflict between nationalists and unionists.
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The program was immediately challenged under Colorado's state constitutional Blaine clause, which prohibits aid to "sectarian" institutions.
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The demand has long animated Hindu hardliners -- and worried Indian liberals, who fear outbursts of sectarian violence.
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The two rival powers accuse each other of supporting terrorism, detribalizing the region and inflaming sectarian hatred.
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Sectarian tensions have raged for some time between members of the Sunni and Shiite denominations of Islam.
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And though there has been courageous peacemaking, sectarian hatreds still smolder, buried, like a coal-seam fire.
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It is also known as a stronghold for jihadist and sectarian extremist groups, including the Afghan Taliban.
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Why it matters: The product of ethno-sectarian power-sharing, past governments have been weak and ineffective.
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Northern Ireland suffered through three decades of sectarian violence that was ended by a 1998 peace accord.
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Sectarian violence sometimes erupts over disputes on issues related to church building, religious conversions and interfaith relationships.
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This was largely due to American and Iranian backing of the sectarian Dawa Party's Nouri al-Maliki.
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Concerns about renewed sectarian tensions and political divisions surrounding a possible border are now front and center.
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Dublin fears that the reintroduction of any kind of border controls would revive political and sectarian tensions.
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Still, Yemen's war stems more from a dispute about national political influence than sectarian conflict, analysts say.
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He has been mostly silent on sectarian violence, including the lynching of Muslims and lower-caste Hindus.
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For years, this border was militarized because of sectarian violence that left more than 3,500 people dead.
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It was a reminder of the sectarian violence that plagued Northern Ireland until a 1998 peace agreement.
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The sectarian violence of the Troubles, which in part kept John Paul away, has all but vanished.
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Iraq has suffered decades of war, sanctions and sectarian conflict, including the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
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Mennonites, a traditionally sectarian Christian denomination, trace their roots to the Anabaptist wing of the Protestant Reformation.
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Sectarian violence has also traumatized Stephen McLean, the soon-to-be second husband of Liz's sister, Alison.
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They commonly claim that state constitutional provisions banning "sectarian" aid prohibit choice programs that include religious schools.
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The film is a metaphoric reflection of the ecological and sectarian threats posed to the natural world.
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Iraqis are using the model to defuse sectarian conflicts, and Moroccans to try to reduce violent extremism.
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Improved stability in the region, or a reemergence of ISIS and additional sectarian turmoil, particularly in Iraq?
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And he has been criticized for doing too little to curb extremist sectarian groups in the province.
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He is also accused of allowing banned sectarian organizations like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi to thrive in Punjab.
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Prime Minister Modi sought to discredit the protests as violent and deployed his usual sectarian dog whistle.
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Officials were also concerned over any perception of preferring Christians could further Iraq's sectarian divides, ProPublica noted.
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For the President, and the Pences, Immanuel Christian School stands as a positive example of sectarian education.
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Laws governing marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance fall under the mandate of the various sectarian courts.
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The job of premier is reserved for a Sunni, according to the country's sectarian power-sharing system.
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Iranian participation in the pilgrimage had become yet another flash point in their sectarian and strategic conflict.
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To Mosul, Maliki dispatched Shiite soldiers and police whom many former residents have described as tyrannically sectarian.
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They come up with a sectarian number called "1690," the date of the Battle of the Boyne.
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Ireland has a long history of verifiable tragedies: centuries of British occupation, famine, emigration and sectarian violence.
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Mr. Modi is at his political best with an electoral campaign run on sectarian and polarizing themes.
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Class war and sectarian violence erupted as an all-out brawl between punks, metalheads, and rockers ensued.
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In fact, since the end of the war, Sri Lanka has witnessed a growth of sectarian religious movements.
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Even if an alliance of convenience was struck, glossing over sectarian splits, Mosul itself posed formidable physical obstacles.
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The brewing of this ethno-sectarian strife in the region is no secret to officials and policy makers.
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Opponents accuse Amiri's Badr Organisation of abusing Sunni Muslims during sectarian conflicts, and of taking orders from Iran.
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The conflict took on a sectarian dimension as it swelled out of protests against Assad's rule in 2011.
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Baghdad-based security analyst Hisham al-Hashimi said this attack made an escalation of sectarian strife highly likely.
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A 2006 bombing destroyed the golden dome of that shrine and set off a wave of sectarian violence.
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There was the rise of the insurgency, al Qaeda in Iraq, Shia militias, the sectarian bloodletting, and ISIS.
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However, moderates also blame politicians for misusing the laws to stir up sectarian tensions for their own ends.
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These, says Mr Knights, have been drawn from across the country to form multi-ethnic, cross-sectarian units.
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But complicating any negotiations, they have no clear leadership and Lebanon's sectarian politics has numerous centers of power.
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Politicians feared that if the Syrians stayed it would upset the sectarian balance underpinning Lebanon's power-sharing system.
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But declining economic conditions have drawn the ire of many Lebanese across the sectarian divide, inspiring mass protests.
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Among these are weak states with poor governance, unemployed or underemployed youth, simmering sectarian tensions or civil war.
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For the moment, Lebanon has shown that sectarian wars can end, and that power can be shared, somehow.
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They find that surges in witch trials correlate closely, in both time and location, with intense sectarian competition.
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Climate change, population growth and sectarian or ethnic extremism are likely to ensure that such wars will continue.
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Adversaries who have usually engaged in political and sectarian wrangling are uniting against the common enemy of ISIS.
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The resignation risks exacerbating sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims and returning Lebanon to paralysis in government.
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During the sectarian "Troubles" of 1968-98, the Irish border was for much of the time heavily fortified.
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To bolster his Eurosceptic reputation, he has campaigned to remove the EU flag from parliament, calling it "sectarian".
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But Iraqis mistrust their government, and the country, cleaved by sectarian division, remains fecund soil for ISIS recruitment.
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The sectarian divide between the majority Shi'ite and minority Sunni communities threatens to split the country for good.
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Some Lebanese fear that granting citizenship to so many Sunni Muslims would upset their country's delicate sectarian balance.
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"We're not interested in engaging in sectarian battles for control of the Democratic Party's steering wheel," he says.
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Iraq's sectarian divide that has perpetuated conflict for more than a decade is sure to spur more bloodshed.
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Key parties in Lebanon's sectarian power-sharing system have jostled over ministries, as foreign donors urged avoiding delays.
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Correction: Earlier versions of this article mischaracterized how long Saudi Arabia and Iran have had a sectarian feud.
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"Trump gave a green light to the Saudis to pursue their increasingly aggressive, sectarian foreign policy," he said.
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Where Trumpism consists of chameleon political expediency, Le Pen-ism is grounded in the purity of sectarian anger.
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Iraq's minorities were once the glue that straddled Iraq's sectarian and ethnic lines and held the country together.
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Authoritarian leaders, religious orthodoxies, sectarian divides, and the shameless exploitation of natural resources has put society in shambles.
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Too paralysed by sectarian and regional differences, it has stood by as its members were engulfed by war.
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Mr Abadi had hoped to repair some of the damage wrought by his sectarian predecessor, Nuri al-Maliki.
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Some people fear that the resignation of Mr Hariri, a Sunni, will merely contribute to rising sectarian tensions.
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Conservatives must cease the sectarian sniping — both religious and political — and come together to push this critical legislation.
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He is revered across confessional lines in Iraq for being staunchly anti-sectarian and refraining from overt politics.
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"The Sunni youth, among them my brother, were caught up in the swirl of sectarian tensions," he said.
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Deep sectarian fractures continue to hurt the country, from villages like Brih right up to the national parliament.
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Indeed, the proper conclusion is that America should be less, not more, involved in Middle Eastern sectarian conflicts.
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But the Commission does not serve that objective by displaying a symbol that bears 'a starkly sectarian message.
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The Gulenist movement is widely suspected of infiltrating and plotting to exploit state institutions for its sectarian purposes.
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There was mourning and expressions of solidarity all over the country; momentarily grief transcended sectarian divisions and tensions.
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The assassination was a pivotal event in Lebanon, further fueling the sectarian divisions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
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Galloway, a 2014 decision where the court upheld a town council's use of a sectarian prayer before meetings.
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In response, Dr. Gause said, "Saddam's regime became explicitly sectarian," widening Sunni-Shiite divides to deter future uprisings.
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"The kingdom utterly rejects that this great ritual turns to achieving political goals or sectarian disputes," he said.
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He thought he had left behind conflicts over religion in Lebanon, where sectarian tensions cast a long shadow.
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The country has been riven by sectarian conflict since 2013 when Muslim Seleka rebels ousted President Francois Bozize.
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In 20113, the city's Sunni residents revolted against the central government in Baghdad because of its sectarian oppression.
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This generated more intelligence about the insurgents and also helped to tamp down the sectarian conflicts in Iraq.
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YAKAWLANG, Afghanistan — Iran has trained and deployed thousands of Shiite Afghans as shock troops in Syria's sectarian war.
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Go deeper: The blasts shattered the peace in a country that has a long history of sectarian tensions.
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The police spokesman from Karbala warned people that citing unfounded claims and stirring up sectarian sentiments was dangerous.
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All that matters is your sectarian or tribal identity, revealed by how you pronounce the word for tomato.
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Across Asia, religious minorities are suffering amid the growing appeal of politics based on ethnic and sectarian identity.
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Investigations by the police found that a fake video was shared on WhatsApp to whip up sectarian passions.
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Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has suffered some of its worst Hindu-Muslim sectarian violence in years.
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They have used its backing to accumulate power, while entrenching ethnic and sectarian divisions and milking the state.
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Lebanon is governed according to a sectarian political system that parcels out state positions according to religious sect.
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Many once-integrated communities are ripping apart along sectarian lines, with more accounts emerging of brazen religious targeting.
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It would also risk inflaming sectarian tensions, just as a border between north and south would have done.
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Power still rests with a handful of sectarian leaders, whom the protesters have been trying to force out.
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Other sectarian clashes were later reported in the country's heartland, and Buddhist mobs killed more than 200 Muslims.
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In 1972, Sands, 18, protesting sectarian violence, joined the Provisional I.R.A. and was arrested on weapons possession charges.
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Lebanon has faced five weeks of anti-government protests, fueled by anger at corruption among the sectarian politicians.
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He filed dispatches from Belfast at the height of the sectarian Troubles, and from the battlefields of Vietnam.
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Deploying a divide-and-conquer logic, authoritarian regimes portrayed the protesters as foreign enemies with extremist, sectarian agendas.
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These parades were historically seen as a display of Protestant supremacy, and they frequently led to sectarian clashes.
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Mr. Azzawi laments the fact that rather than rebuilding Iraq, the American occupation fostered new, bloody sectarian divides.
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The public sees through their governments' past efforts to focus their anger on foreign entities or sectarian divisions.
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Tuesday, April 10, marks the 20th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement that ended three decades of sectarian bloodletting.
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But even at its height, this view only gained currency among a very small cohort of sectarian dogmatists.
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The Kurram tribal district borders Afghanistan, and its main town, Parachinar, has a long history of sectarian violence.
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But least it tracked with the politically salient sectarian divisions in the country, which it doesn't with Afghanistan.
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Sectarian parties plunder official resources to build up militias and buy support, while providing little for the people.
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Islamist militants, particularly sectarian groups, have also launched a campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations of minority Shi'ites.
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The political reasons were obvious: The Collective had represented critics of Mr. Modi's sectarian record and environmental vision.
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They improvise and come up with a bit of sectarian musicianship they hope will appease their Protestant crowd.
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Most importantly, Maliki reconstructed the Iraqi state along sectarian lines, privileging the Shia majority over the Sunni minority.
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Prabowo's candidate for Jakarta governor won the election, which analysts and rights advocates condemned for inflaming sectarian sentiment.
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"The transformation of Iran into an overtly Shia power after the Islamic revolution induced Saudi Arabia to accelerate the propagation of Wahhabism, as both countries revived a centuries-old sectarian rivalry over the true interpretation of Islam," the Council on Foreign Relations writes in an extensive review of the sectarian feud.
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Mr. Charlap perceptively notes some of the challenges of trying to use formal partition to end ethnic-sectarian fighting.
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And Libya seemed a tantalizingly easy case — with just six million people, no sectarian divide and plenty of oil.
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The two countries have also backed rival groups in Iraq along similar sectarian lines over the past 13 years.
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Omar, a former weightlifter, said he fled the sectarian violence gripping Iraq after his brother and nephew were killed.
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Parading Orangemen are a familiar sight in Northern Ireland, where marches have long been a source of sectarian tension.
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The landmark 1998 Good Friday Agreement helped bring an end to decades of violent sectarian conflict in the region.
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But the impasse may increase sectarian tensions and freeze decision-making as Britain prepares to leave the European Union.
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During the worst years of sectarian horror in Baghdad, musicians risked death if they were overheard practising at home.
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Sadr has always been seen as a wildcard in Iraq's turbulent politics, which is often driven by sectarian interests.
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People have been blocking highways as part of the protests which have united Lebanese from across the sectarian spectrum.
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Baluchistan, a restive province that borders Afghanistan and Iran, has been racked by separatist and sectarian violence for years.
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The authorities are nudging the country back toward normalcy, and Lebanon's deeply entrenched sectarian powers are already reasserting themselves.
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But it is ironic that the main beneficiaries of this sectarian conflict are terrorist organizations and enemies of Islam.
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Then he was caught up in tragedy, like most Iraqis: Three brothers were killed during the sectarian civil war.
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Perversely, they say, the humanitarian help raises the specter of sectarian strife in a country torn apart by it.
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Instead, she spoke of bringing development to Rakhine in the hope that prosperity would help to defuse sectarian hostility.
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If Syrian minorities abandon Mr. Assad in greater numbers, the conflict would lose much of its dangerous sectarian tenor.
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Just when the region had hoped to calm its sectarian differences, its ethnic fault lines are likely to reopen.
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Would his government initiate an economic lift-off, as businessfolk hoped, or spark a sectarian conflagration, as secularists feared?
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The Saudis say Iran is fomenting sectarian violence in the Middle East and has aspirations to dominate the region.
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It says three militants were killed, including Salman Badeni, a provincial commander of the sectarian Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group.
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Saudi execution of Shia cleric threatens to deepen regional sectarian crisis What's the deal between these two countries anyway?
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Previous elections have been marred by violence among supporters of different political parties that at times sparked sectarian conflict.
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"The country must avoid further divisions or violence along sectarian lines, lest it implode completely," he said on Monday.
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These social pressures can exacerbate ethnic, racial and sectarian tensions and make them scapegoats for local and national problems.
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" Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Bush confidently asserted, "has pledged that political or sectarian interference will not be tolerated.
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Abadi was Maliki's replacement, in part because he promised to heal the sectarian rift between Iraq's Shi'ite and Sunnis.
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The infusion of 85033,000 additional U.S. troops during the 2007-2008 surge helped temporarily decrease sectarian violence in Baghdad.
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But instead they found themselves caught up in sectarian and ethnic rivalry, pitting say, Somali mosques against Pakistani ones.
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The West of Scotland, in particular, has long wrestled with a sectarian divide between Catholic and Protestant religious faith.
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Parliament in Syria is a figleaf for dictatorship; Lebanese parties are sectarian; those of the Gulf are consultative only.
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Abu Dhabi accuses Doha of "supporting, funding and embracing terrorism, extremism and sectarian organisations," state news agency WAM said.
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The wrong mix could deepen sectarian divisions after Mosul is attacked, risking all-out civil war and more hardship.
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There may be some hope in the sight of Iraqi Shias denouncing their politicians and the sectarian muhasasa system.
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People are sick of the sectarian manipulation of politics to mask theft, corruption and state capture by oligarchical elites.
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U.S. officials and Sunni Arab leaders accused the Mehdi Army of being behind many sectarian killings that ravaged Iraq.
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Hezbollah, a Shia political and military force, was born from the sectarian civil war and ensuing 1982 Israeli invasion.
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Unusually in both countries where sectarian parties have previously dominated politics, most protesters are not linked to organized movements.
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Now, Hezbollah's role in Syria has divided Lebanon and the Arab world — roughly, though not entirely, along sectarian lines.
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Amiri's Badr party has significant Shia support, but is accused by Sunnis and Kurds of sectarian abuses and violence.
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Family, neighborhood, or sectarian disputes can escalate quickly and can lead to gunfire or other violence with no warning.
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Moreover, too many countries in the region see the Islamic State as a secondary threat, subordinate to sectarian rivalries.
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KAWAGUCHI, Japan — Mahircan Yucel moved to Japan a dozen years ago as a teenager fleeing sectarian violence in Turkey.
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Iraq has managed to steer itself reasonably carefully away from an exclusively sectarian outcome to the fight against ISIS.
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Instead, the new oppositional movements are often rooted in religious or ethnic identity and take sectarian or separatist forms.
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Instead, there was a collective sense of outrage at Hariri's public humiliation in Riyadh that cut across sectarian lines.
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President Maithripala Sirisena will meet representatives of different faiths later on Thursday to address concerns of a sectarian backlash.
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If we grant free rein to sectarian militias, there will be a humanitarian and refugee crisis of incomparable scale.
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Tens of thousands of Rohingya fled Myanmar by sea following an outbreak of sectarian violence in Rakhine in 2012.
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Though security has improved in Pakistan's remote areas bordering Afghanistan, sectarian militant attacks, primarily targeting Shi'ite Muslims, still occur.
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Neither the UK nor Ireland want new border infrastructure, amid concerns it could stoke sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland.
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Previous elections have been marred by violence among supporters of different political parties that at times sparked sectarian clashes.
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Yazidi commander Qassem Shesho says Iraq's government is too sectarian and dislikes the Yazidis as much as Islamic State.
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Such a barrier could jeopardize the two-decade-old peace process that largely ended sectarian strife in the north.
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The central authorities are weak and powerless as a result, having become indentured to various political and sectarian fiefs.
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What scares Hibbu and Western officials is that the devastation and lack of help may reignite old sectarian grievances.
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In 2012, deadly sectarian clashes broke out between the two groups, mostly in or near the state capital, Sittwe.
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As a Persian, Shiite-led state, it is a sectarian and ethnic minority in a predominantly Sunni Arab region.
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However this question was answered, one side or the other in the sectarian divide was bound to be upset.
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Big picture: Turkey's invasion upended a fragile peace in northern Syria and has already begun to unleash sectarian bloodshed.
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It is powerful because it sponsors militias across the Middle East, destabilizing regimes and spreading genocide and sectarian cleansing.
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In Egypt, the group appears to be employing the sectarian playbook used by its predecessor, Al Qaeda, in Iraq.
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What to watch: The protests have remained largely peaceful, though the risks of international meddling and sectarian conflict loom.
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The Islamic State considers Shiites apostates, and it has long carried out a campaign of sectarian killings in Iraq.
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Sectarian violence has continued for years and a power-sharing agreement has only led to discontent, deadlock and corruption.
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Muslims are abandoning their homes in areas around New Delhi, where deadly sectarian street clashes have erupted since Sunday.
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Sectarian violence is now engulfing the region, and the Saudi-Iranian war of hegemony is propelling this lethal drama.
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For these young Irish, the I.R.A.'s role in the sectarian violence of the Troubles is a distant memory.
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Still, in East Belfast, I observed how one paramilitary — the U.V.F. — had the capacity to stir up sectarian passions.
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News of sectarian violence reaches us daily from across the globe, bringing us unimaginably horrific and mind-numbing images.
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It said the United Nations must guarantee "holding Russia and Iran and sectarian militias ... to a halt to fighting".
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Jeffrey does gives the president credit for pushing out al-Maliki, who was widely seen as ineffective and sectarian.
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That's a threatening prospect to many white Christian Americans, who implicitly identify the country in ethnic and sectarian terms.
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That open border is a critical facet of the Good Friday Agreement, which ended a decades-long sectarian conflict.
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Governments have handed out jobs not on the basis of competence and expertise, but based on sectarian and political affiliation.
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A return to direct rule from London may follow; an outcome that could see growth weaken and heighten sectarian tensions.
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Points included creating a future unified Syrian army to fight terrorism or ensuring a democratic and non-sectarian based Syria.
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Residents are challenging a sectarian government where power is consolidated among political and business elites, often one and the same.
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Police superintendent Altaf Khan said the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the attack aimed at sowing sectarian discord.
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But in 2011, as the Arab world exploded in popular protests, the Saudi government cemented its commitment to sectarian confrontation.
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Known as the Council of Forty, it has played a crucial role in keeping sectarian violence from reaching our city.
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But protesters say it also presents an opportunity to shake off the country's sectarian system and transition into civil governance.
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The Shia militias have been kept out of the city to avoid sectarian killings, as have the Kurdish peshmerga fighters.
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The militia was linked to much of the sectarian violence that reached fever pitch in Iraq in 2006 and 2007.
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Feeling vindicated by the election result, Mr Corbyn and his team remain as sectarian as before, if not more so.
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The great majority of them are Sunni, making their absorption as citizens impossible without upending the already strained sectarian balance.
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Sunnis in the biggest city in the north accused him of pursuing a sectarian agenda and marginalizing their minority community.
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But the flight of hundreds of thousands of displaced Yemenis is changing the sectarian make-up in the army's ranks.
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Khatar Khalaf Rashid, a father from Iraq's Salahuddin who returned to a camp after being targeted by local sectarian gangs
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His family rebuilt their obliterated home, but the sectarian threats from what he claims to be unofficial Shia militias intensified.
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People of that stripe have little obvious interest in talking metaphysics with Catholics, and their theology is often pretty sectarian.
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U.S. officials and Sunni Arab leaders have accused Sadr's Mehdi Army of being behind many sectarian killings that ravaged Iraq.
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This nuanced, cautiously evolving identity is lost in a local politics that is crudely sectarian, and becoming grimly more so.
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Mr Raidy attributes the enormous increase to the state's emphasis on promoting sectarian unity by preventing discussion of the war.
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Sectarian conflict complicates the situation further, as most locals like Naffouri are Sunni, while the advancing military is predominantly Shia.
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It led to the creation of an elected assembly in Belfast and ended decades of sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
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There have long been sharp tensions and sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites, adherents of the largest branches in Islam.
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Tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled poverty and persecution in western Myanmar since sectarian violence erupted there in 2012.
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Compared to daily violence that absolutely guarantees a future of even more violence and possible sectarian explosion in the region?
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It remains difficult to see how those regional rivalries and persistent sectarian divisions could ever be bridged with substantive agreements.
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The next government, like the last one, is expected to include most major parties within the sectarian power-sharing system.
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Previous Nigerian elections have been marred by violence among supporters of different political parties that at times sparked sectarian conflict.
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"Sectarian narrative helps Saudi rulers at tough times: rally Sunnis at home and in region against Shia challenge", he tweeted.
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"It has made the possibility of successful talks more remote," said Naomi Long, leader of the non-sectarian Alliance Party.
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The current obstacle surrounds Sunni Muslim representation in the cabinet, where the 30 seats must be allocated along sectarian lines.
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It still hangs gay people, locks up dissidents and stokes sectarian conflict around the Middle East, most destructively in Syria.
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It is more crucial than ever, he says, in a Middle East torn apart by violence and deep sectarian rifts.
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But the fall of Mosul also exposes ethnic and sectarian fractures that have plagued Iraq for more than a decade.
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They are Fulani—Islamic pastoralists by tradition and, in the case of this exiled community, survivors of savage sectarian violence.
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But its ability to inflict terror, to take advantage of ungoverned spaces and exploit sectarian hatred is far from extinguished.
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Those detained are accused of stirring sectarian strife, harming national unity and destroying private property, one judicial source told Reuters.
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In contrast, the young Iraqi protesters have been carrying the Iraqi flag and rejecting all other political and sectarian symbols.
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Bahrain says the opposition has a sectarian agenda and is backed by Shi'ite power Iran, a charge Shi'ite groups deny.
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It is encouraging that the Sadrists have so far largely refrained from violence and that their rallies are not sectarian.
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The aim was to achieve sectarian balance – and voters were encouraged to elect one of the lists in its entirety.
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He commanded a militia that fought the Americans, then took part in the grisly sectarian war of 2005 and 2006.
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The killing in January triggered numerous protests, in particular because of the brutal, sectarian nature of the young girl's death.
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He was adroit in navigating Yemen's complex tribal and sectarian patchwork, and in leading unification with the south in 1990.
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For a novel about life under multifarious forms of totalitarian control—political, gendered, sectarian, communal—"Milkman" can be charmingly wry.
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Millions of people were displaced, and as many as one million died in the chaos and sectarian clashes following Partition.
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For now, some French politicians seemed willing to take the bait and use the language of sectarian and cultural division.
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The Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, was stacking the security forces with loyalists who carried out sectarian massacres.
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Weeks later, Saudi Arabia tried 30 Shiites detained in 2013 on charges of espionage for Iran and provoking sectarian divisions.
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Iran and the Islamic State competed for the hearts and minds of increasing sectarian conflicts in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.
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While the Scottish-English border lacks the historical violence and sectarian delicacy of the Irish border, the core conundrum remains.
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Richardson said the Saudis, a Sunni power, "shouldn't have executed the cleric" because they should have anticipated the sectarian outrage.
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Goods now flow freely between Ireland and Northern Ireland, where peace from bloody sectarian fighting is barely 20 years old.
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It pointed to public statements from the police that any border infrastructure or personnel would become targets for sectarian militants.
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While the group has failed to capture territory in Egypt, it is trying to stoke sectarian tensions and social unrest.
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It says any "hard border" infrastructure on its frontier with the British province of the island would revive sectarian conflict.
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Iraq was still fragile and its communities still unreconciled, so it quickly descended into sectarian chaos once US troops left.
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Iraq's minority Sunni population have long viewed the Iraqi security services as armed Shia groups with a deeply sectarian agenda.
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Several nonviolent sectarian groups are also active in the district, and it has a significant number of radical religious schools.
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KARACHI, Pakistan — Aurangzeb Farooqi is a leader of a political party that is banned in Pakistan for espousing sectarian violence.
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Many of the Iraqis we spoke to on that day were upset with institutionalization of an ethno-sectarian quota system.
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Unemployment is high, sectarian violence has risen, farmers across the country are increasingly frustrated and there's broad disillusionment with politicians.
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In 1990, Hindu efforts to claim the site led to deadly sectarian riots and the collapse of the central government.
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These days, Iran's ruling theocracy is best known for oppression, corruption and mismanagement at home, and ghastly sectarian warfare abroad.
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In Kurram, sectarian tensions are an additional complication, with the predominantly Shiite population repeatedly under attack by Sunni Taliban militants.
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Though security has improved in the tribal areas in recent years, sectarian militant attacks, primarily against Shiite Muslims, still occur.
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"These last few years, they've been better than the previous few years," Mr. Abdeali said, addressing the city's sectarian violence.
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Nearly all of Lebanon's political establishment is entangled in Beirut's deep-rooted corruption crisis, which cuts across the sectarian divide.
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His current campaign for a civil, anti-sectarian, reformist government raises hopes and possibilities not experienced in recent Iraqi history.
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The first two international movements had fallen apart over sectarian disputes or over members' support for the war in 1914.
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Lebanon truly has come a long way since the 20-year civil war that divided its people along sectarian lines.
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The new government, like the outgoing one, is expected to include all main parties within Lebanon's sectarian power-sharing system.
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Lebanon's president (and Hezbollah ally) Michel Aoun on Thursday called the sectarian system a "sickness" and vowed drastic political reform.
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In January, Iraq summoned the Saudi ambassador after he suggested Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias were exacerbating sectarian tensions in Iraq.
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Her mother, who was also in court, was being held on charges of discrimination and sectarian practices and inciting insurrection.
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The word "sectarian" has a history of being used as a pejorative for religious viewpoints and beliefs outside the mainstream.
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The main factions in Yemen's war — echoing the sectarian grudge match across the Middle East — show no interest in compromise.
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It's a haunting portrayal of the moment that the interdenominational Gandhian dream was suspended in the wake of sectarian violence.
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It did not always begin the sectarian competition, but it was happy to join Saudi Arabia in playing that game.
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Abadi's list, touted by Zurfi as "cross-sectarian", is the only one contesting the election in all of Iraq's 18 provinces.
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Britain has been dealing with various forms of political violence since the 1960s, when the sectarian Troubles erupted in Northern Ireland.
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Our specific objectives are to reduce sectarian conflict, violence and the potential of violence between differing religious communities in southern Iraq.
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Its rapid advance owed much to the collapse of Iraq's army, hollowed out by the sectarian policies of the Maliki government.
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But doing so could have staggering implications for Northern Ireland, which is still recovering from decades of sectarian tensions and violence.
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Syria has been engulfed in a civil war for six years, and it has been marked by Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict.
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Of course, Lebanon's challenges do not occur in a vacuum; they are part of a broader sectarian conflict in the region.
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Think of the sectarian violence in Myanmar, or Sri Lanka, or India that has resulted from unfettered speech on the platform.
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For some people on the left, it turns out they care more about their sectarian identity than they do about Trump.
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Even this episode of Sunni-Sunni score-settling was portrayed in much of the commentary as sectarian Shia-Sunni retaliatory attacks.
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The sectarian "Troubles" of 1968-98 reinforced the pattern, with "peace walls" built to protect each side from the other's troublemakers.
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Members cover 14-hour shifts, speaking to passersby and holding rallies about plans for political transition from the country's sectarian leadership.
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Fearing sectarian tensions and the loss of grazing land for their livestock, the villagers protested against the camp's construction last year.
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I was riddled with the guilt of moving to the United States in the midst of a sectarian war in Iraq.
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It is little wonder that many fear a new census may inflame tensions in a country deeply divided along sectarian lines.
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It was never meant to be permanent: the stated aim was for non-sectarian elections to take place in the future.
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The degree to which sectarian tensions have flared up "was a new phenomenon," that was visible in daily life, Maktary said.
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But, as politics has become more sectarian over the past decade or so, the push for schools to integrate has slackened.
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The US has long called for a unified Iraq, despite sectarian divisions that have led some to recommend a partitioned state.
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However, if he teamed up with Mr Sadr's Sairoun, he could put the country on a path towards less sectarian politics.
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Abolishing it might lead to a sectarian power struggle, they say, sucking in other countries, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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But he must still secure wider backing to secure the position reserved for a Maronite Christian in Lebanon's sectarian political system.
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Mansoor, an electrical engineer and poet, was arrested in March 2017 and accused of promoting a sectarian and hate-incited agenda.
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New border controls threaten to undermine two decades of peace between former sectarian rivals, and dampen economies in both Irish regions.
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Sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims in the past several years has caused nearly a million people to flee their homes.
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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al-Alami, a Sunni sectarian group linked with militant group Islamic State, claimed responsibility for the mosque attack.
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Since Saddam Hussein was toppled in a 2003 U.S. invasion, power has been shared among Iraq's three largest ethnic-sectarian components.
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This crisis reflects the deep and longstanding sectarian divide between Sunnis (roughly 85% of Muslims) and Shia (15%) throughout the region.
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In 2013, Iraq's government accused Al Jazeera and nine other satellite television channels of fostering sectarian sentiment that was fuelling violence.
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If sectarian tensions persist, Iraqi officials say, the country will fail to unite and could even be partitioned based on sect.
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She said she'd been pressed to answer questions about her stance on the Rohingya since 2012, when sectarian violence broke out.
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Lebanon has a paralyzed political system and sectarian tensions left over from a civil war that ended around 15 years ago.
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It was less often noted that those starving children had been forced into Madaya in an Iranian-backed sectarian cleansing operation.
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As a rival of Sunni Saudi Arabia, Iran has fought decades of sectarian proxy wars in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.
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The rise of the ultra-hardline Sunni insurgents of Islamic State has worsened sectarian conflict in Iraq, which is majority Shi'ite.
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Geoprofiling works especially well in countries like Iraq, in which sectarian splits limit where people are willing to live or work.
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Washington should support policies and figures that seek to govern for all Iraqis, not advance narrow sectarian or personal interests. 3.
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"Overall, I was taken by surprise, and I think this will be very bad for sectarian relations in Saudi," he says.
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It does not permit the government to make judgments about which religions are acceptably "nondenominational" (good!) and which are "sectarian" (bad!).
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Let's take eastern Syria: there's a sectarian element between the Sunni Arabs and the minorities, it's very central to what's happening.
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Less noticed, however, has been how the near-total defeat of IS is reshaping political and sectarian alliances in the region.
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Enmity between Sunni and Shi'ite regional powers has deepened in recent years as sectarian conflicts rage in Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
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They face an uprising in the south-east, militants in the oil-producing Niger delta and sectarian clashes in the centre.
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They did not want a repeat of the sectarian reprisals that marred the retaking of another Sunni city, Tikrit, last year.
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Our community was subjected to sectarian attacks on a daily basis, which took the form of rioting, gunfire, and even bombings.
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Some want a secular parliament in which MPs are individually elected, rather than through sectarian lists, as under the current system.
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"It was a sectarian target killing," senior police officer Malik Nisar told Reuters, adding that the attackers escaped after opening fire.
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Although many Algerian Muslims are neither sectarian nor racist, they don't have much influence among the elites or over public debate.
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The United States and others blamed Mr. Maliki's sectarian policies for marginalizing the minority Sunnis and allowing the rise of ISIS.
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And for all its violence Afghanistan has managed to avoid the kind of sectarian bloodletting that afflicts neighbours such as Iraq.
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People want to give a slap in the face to their sectarian leaders without taking a huge risk for the country.
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Iraq's Parliament has begun voting on a cabinet after protesters demanded government reforms and leaders untainted by corruption or sectarian connections.
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ISIS and al-Qaeda, likewise, fantasize of sparking sectarian civil wars and romanticize of glorious medieval mythologies that never actually existed.
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"They did not treat us well," said Khalaf Mahmoud, accusing members of the Shi'ite-led security forces of using sectarian slurs.
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This abandoned Iraq's Sunnis to the sectarian Mr. Maliki's mercy, which indirectly abetted the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq.
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The demolition of the Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya set the tone for sectarian tensions that haunt India today.
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Ahead of the verdict, schools were shut and 4,000 security officers were deployed to the area in case of sectarian violence.
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Neiwert excels at tracking not just the movement and growth of extremist organizations but also their internal rifts and sectarian divisions.
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This is seen as crucial to the 1998 Good Friday peace accord that ended decades of sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
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Sectarian crimes in Northern Ireland are now categorized as hate crimes, which officials say has encouraged more people to come forward.
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Iraq has been destabilized by a mostly Sunni and Shi'ite sectarian war, and friction between Kurds and Arabs have deepened tensions.
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There is deep sectarian distrust in these regions, there is deep ethnic distrust and deep senses of grievance in these regions.
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In the context of this vision of the future, the battle of Aleppo is nothing more than sectarian and political cleansing.
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He acknowledged failing to adequately plan for the aftermath of the invasion which triggered sectarian violence and protracted British military involvement.
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We can regress to a failed strategy and let sectarian militias fight the Islamic State — and then commit atrocities against civilians.
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Otherwise they would be at risk from pro-Assad "sectarian militias", a reference to Iran-backed Shi'ite groups such as Hezbollah.
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Instead, they are looking for stability in their daily life, and avoiding risks or conflicts — sectarian, religious, environmental and so on.
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Fears of retaliatory sectarian violence have already caused Muslim communities to flee their homes amid bomb scares, lockdowns and security sweeps.
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Many US officials and analysts believe that Iraq descended into sectarian strife because the US withdrew too early in December 2011.
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That's one of their strengths, that diversity, but sometimes it becomes intensely sectarian, and that determines the outcome of popular uprisings.
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That year, fake reports of sectarian violence went viral in India, setting off riots that killed several people and displaced thousands.
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Human rights groups have also accused the PMU of committing sectarian violence against the Sunni community in the fight against ISIS.
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Unemployment is high, sectarian violence has risen, farmers across the country are increasingly frustrated and there's a broad disillusionment with politicians.
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The people of Bogakhali are the latest casualties of the violence, voter intimidation and sectarian politics that typically accompany Indian elections.
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Words like that from a Supreme Court nominee are breathing new life into the debate over public funding for sectarian education.
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During the campaign, Mr. Sadr promised to fight corruption, work across sectarian lines and bring in technocrats to run the government.
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The tea-growing state of Assam, with a population of 33 million people, has a history of sectarian and ethnic violence.
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Western diplomats have warned that Mr. Abadi's defeat could plunge the country into a sectarian struggle that could rip it apart.
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In Venezuela we saw how a politician used demagogic sectarian rhetoric to establish an authoritarian regime and then destroy a people.
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But an ugly strain of sectarian prejudice runs though society, backed by discriminatory laws, which has at times led to violence.
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The proxy struggles between the two regional powers have played out along sectarian lines in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Bahrain and Lebanon.
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That's not to say that the repressive regime in Tehran isn't dangerous, fueling terrorism and sectarian strife in the Middle East.
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A new government announced Tuesday failed to satisfy the demonstrators, who want a full overhaul of the country's sectarian political system.
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The sectarian groups have an inherent advantage because the Lebanese political system is built on sharing spoils and creating clientelist networks.
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Because of Buddhism's pacifist image — swirls of calming incense and beatific smiles — the faith is not often associated with sectarian aggression.
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Iraq was liberated from Saddam Hussein, but the result was sectarian warfare, fueled by a struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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"Iran wants these groups to extend the borders of the regime's revolution and sow chaos and sectarian violence," Mr. Hook said.
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The liberating effect is visible in how Iraqis irrespective of class, sectarian and sexual identities can reclaim public spaces without fear.
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At the same time, M.B.Z. watched in dismay as armies mobilized on the other side of the region's great sectarian divide.
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Yunus Laco, an Alevi who applied this year for a state position, received some oddly sectarian questions in his oral examinations.
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Formed in 2006 by its leader Qais al-Khazali, the sectarian force has launched numerous operations against American and Iraqi forces.
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These amendments limited public aid for schooling to the Protestant-majority public schools, while denying it to "sectarian" (read: Catholic) alternatives.
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Op-Ed Contributor Tuberculosis has killed many more Indians in a year than decades of insurgencies and incidents of sectarian violence.
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Most of those who have fled are from the town's Turkmen Sunni Muslim majority, fearing sectarian revenge by the Shi'ite fighters.
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Lebanon's political system allots government seats according to sectarian quotas: half of the seats go to Christians and half to Muslims.
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Turkey fears the use of Shi'ite militias, which Iraqi army units have relied on in the past, will stoke sectarian unrest.
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Given the slim chances of victory and the desperate stakes, any sectarian disagreement that can possibly be put aside should be.
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"Political and sectarian strife, separating between one man and another, between ruler and follower, these mentalities must be changed," he said.
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They consequently revived their cherished radical version of Islam, namely Wahhabism, a puritanical sectarian movement that originated in 18th-century Arabia.
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In 2005, she served an almost six-month deployment to Iraq at a time of growing sectarian violence and insurgent attacks.
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This is a Muslim-majority region that's been prone to sectarian violence and anti-government sentiment for close to a decade.
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As a consequence, Iran has supported violent extremist groups, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and sectarian militias in Iraq.
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Politics in Lebanon have long been dogged by sectarian divisions, exacerbated by the Syrian conflict and complicated by regional Iranian-Saudi rivalry.
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Before being taken to my cell, the guards confiscated all items of clothing that could potentially be viewed as containing sectarian symbols.
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But war and sectarian conflict shrank Iraq's Christian population from 1.5 million to about 400,000 after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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The perpetrators were each fined 500 Egyptian pounds ($28) on charges of inciting sectarian strife, harming national unity and vandalizing private property.
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Abadi, a Shi'ite backed by a group close to Iran, says he is running as the head of a cross-sectarian bloc.
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The Lebanese system divides up power according to strict sectarian quotas, with parliament's 128 seats split evenly between Christian and Muslim groups.
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Delays in naming a new government, and political and sectarian wrangling over who should be in it, have paralyzed politics in Iraq.
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The United States backed Abadi because it saw him as a moderate who could stabilize a country beset by sectarian, turbulent politics.
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Hails from Bogside McGuinness grew up in Derry's Bogside, one of the epicenter's of "The Troubles," Northern Ireland's decades' long sectarian conflict.
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But they took on more resonance this year after a spate of Islamic State attacks on Copts meant to stoke sectarian divisions.
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Opponents say his sectarian policies during eight years in power created the atmosphere that enabled Islamic State to gain sympathy among Sunnis.
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The Shiite militias that swept into their area to help push ISIS out brought with them a new round of sectarian violence.
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Its local candidates have not shied away from pressing religious buttons, well-worn in a state that has witnessed periodic sectarian clashes.
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That this should now go ahead with the say-so of Westminster, but not Stormont, will surely aggravate the sectarian divide further.
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The Taif accord, which ended Lebanon's long civil war in 1990, created a sectarian power-sharing arrangement that endures to this day.
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Strapped for cash by low oil prices and riven by sectarian divisions, the Iraqi government will need help from the international coalition.
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But the group that went on to become ISIS disregarded this counsel from the beginning, dragging Iraq into a bloody sectarian conflict.
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Meanwhile, members of his government and political party have been inflaming sectarian tensions, alarming many Indians and damaging Mr. Modi's international reputation.
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But that cannot mean condoning actions that blatantly fan sectarian hatreds, undermine efforts at stabilizing the region and crudely violate human rights.
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In the mid-1970s, as Lebanon descended into sectarian chaos, it became a magnet for Iranian dissidents who trained in guerrilla warfare.
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Many Indians will remember that, following sectarian riots in the past, ruling parties were accused of using voter rolls to target victims.
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Of course, sectarian tensions are rooted in political conflict that is being fueled by groups driven by greed and short-term interests.
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If the BJP's recent state campaigns are an indicator, the party may amplify rhetoric intended to polarise the electorate along sectarian lines.
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THIS year will mark two decades since the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.
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Sunnis, who dominated Iraq under Saddam Hussein, accuse Shi'ite leaders of marginalizing them through sectarian policies, allegations Baghdad's Shi'ite-led government denies.
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Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been either targeted by sectarian violence or have attempted to flee on boats to Thailand and Malaysia.
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Even among broadly conservative watchers of American foreign policy, there is worry that Mr Pompeo's apparent sectarian sentiment might be a problem.
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An opinion poll last August showed that only 5% of Iraqis would vote for a politician with a sectarian or religious agenda.
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IS's more indiscriminate actions are easier to understand for recruits who seek "visceral violence, death, conquest and sectarian unrest", says Mr Heller.
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Since Saddam Hussein was toppled in a 2003 U.S.-led invasion, power has been shared among Iraq's three largest ethnic-sectarian components.
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Al-Nimr was executed in January 2016, after being arrested in 2012 and convicted of inciting sectarian strife, sedition and other charges.
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The last sticking point surrounds Sunni Muslim representation in the country's cabinet where the 30 seats must be allocated along sectarian lines.
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With ever-increasing sectarian tensions in oil-producing countries, it may be hard to believe that crude prices are continuing to fall.
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These transformations yielded a sectarian-driven expansionist and interventionist foreign policy, the continuity of which vouchsafes the legitimacy of any Supreme Leader.
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Sadr's followers have returned with familiar demands to fight corruption and overhaul a governing system based on ethnic, sectarian and party quotas.
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The argument is flawed: Saudi Arabia instead risks leading one side in a Muslim sectarian struggle it can neither win nor afford.
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Given the deep sectarian divisions, limiting the role of the Shia "Popular Mobilisation Forces" in Anbar remains a priority for the Americans.
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Unfortunately, though, already-simmering sectarian tensions are a very handy weapon—and there is plenty of human ammunition willing to be used.
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Pakistan has long suffered from sectarian violence, with Sunni militants targeting the country's minority Shi'ites, as well as non-Muslim religious minorities.
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But its ability to inflict terror, take advantage of ungoverned spaces and exploit simmering ethnic and sectarian hatred is far from extinguished.
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Much of the national disaster risk management work focuses on raising awareness of hazards and increasing collaboration within a heavily sectarian society.
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The reason for all the politicking is a struggle over the sectarian system that has dominated Iraq since America's invasion in 2003.
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Authorities accuse the group of fomenting sectarian unrest and having links to a foreign power, an apparent reference to arch-foe Iran.
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But consider the story of Aliaa Ali and Noura Kanafani, two young Syrian women who used to laugh off their sectarian differences.
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Failure to do so could contribute to the emergence of another ISIS-type group that exploits sectarian divisions in Iraq, he warns.
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Washington has expressed fear that the participation of Shiite forces in assaulting a Sunni city like Falluja would heighten sectarian tensions. Col.
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Stability in a deeply divided country A hero in his sectarian strongholds, Hariri is an altogether different figure on the national stage.
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A new election law has opened the door to more independent candidates, many eager to shake off Lebanon's legacy of sectarian politics.
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The primary goal is to keep Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias out of Mosul to avoid sectarian clashes in a Sunni-majority city.
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Gerrymandering and rigid election laws make it almost impossible for independent political parties to challenge the sectarian factions at the national level.
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At the same time, the presence of the sectarian militias in Sunni areas alienates the areas that fell to ISIS in 85033.
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"We are a post-sectarian generation," Hussein El Achi, a young Lebanese lawyer active in the orchestration of the protests, told me.
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President Aoun should replace the entire cabinet with highly educated, young Lebanese technocrats who will have little interest in Lebanon's sectarian past.
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Protesters say that wouldn't be enough; they want to undo the entire post-Saddam political system which distributes power among sectarian parties.
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Corbyn's positions are often those of "the old, crabbed, bitter, sectarian left," to use the institutional socialist magazine the New Statesman's words.
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His attempts to divide the subcontinent based on religion resulted in sectarian clashes and between 500,000 and a million people were killed.
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Some divisive issues related to sectarian and national identity were left unresolved by the accord and contribute to occasional discontent and violence.
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Rwigara's mother, Adeline, who was also in court facing charges of inciting insurrection and sectarian practices, was also acquitted of all charges.
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These policies, Dr. Matthiesen warned, cultivated sectarian fears and sometimes violence that would later feed into the ideology of the Islamic State.
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The Americans have already negotiated an elaborate battlefield plan with the Iraqis that is designed in part to avoid more sectarian conflict.
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And Washington's failure to understand the Middle East's religious character played an important role exacerbating sectarian violence which has become so pervasive.
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A security source downplayed concerns that the militants were capable of spreading the kind of sectarian violence that has torn apart Iraq.
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An open frontier is seen as crucial to preserving the 1998 Good Friday peace accord that ended decades of Irish sectarian bloodshed.
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Instead, we experience sectarian strife through the life of middle sister, who feels social politics much more intensely than the governmental kind.
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But instead of bridging the gaping sectarian divides left by years of war and terror, these trials are tearing open new ones.
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The return of a "hard" border might threaten to undermine the Good Friday agreement that has reduced sectarian conflict in the North.
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With the rise of Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism, sectarian divides have continued to grow — and the country has experienced new waves of violence.
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It has struggled with sectarian divisions among its Buddhist majority and Hindu, Muslim and Christian minorities that have occasionally erupted into violence.
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Taliban militants maintain a presence in some parts of the province, and sectarian militant groups have managed to defy the state authorities.
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The deadly attacks on Easter Sunday marked a departure from the country's sectarian tensions, with a radical Islamist group targeting Christian minorities.
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"Rather than improve the abysmal condition of the population, they have blindly pursued sectarian policies designed to maintain their power," he added.
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They say they worry more about the extra bureaucracy and cost that Brexit could bring than about the possibility of sectarian tensions.
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Those years have been bloody ones for Pakistani Shiites, with thousands killed in sectarian attacks that almost always go unsolved and unprosecuted.
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But experts say these recent protests are driven by a new generation that cares less about the old sectarian or ideological divides.
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Before sectarian violence was often orchestrated to win elections in a clutch of seats, almost always followed by a process of reconciliation.
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People from all sects and regions of Lebanon rallied to demand the end of the sectarian system and accountability for corrupt politicians.
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Don't get me wrong, I think both sides, Saudi and Iran, are bad for using the Middle East as their sectarian playground.
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His ability to see the humanity in those across the sectarian divide from him was the leitmotif of his career in politics.
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Instead, they appeal to sectarian identity and claim to be champions of reform, who are being stymied by a larger, corrupt system.
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"They've called for new government, new system of government that is non-sectarian, that is not corrupt, that actually delivers," he said.
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These drove mass migrations within the country, in turn laying the groundwork for sectarian tensions that spilled over into a protracted conflict.
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It had accused both of being linked to Iran and of fomenting sectarian tensions in the island kingdom, charges they have denied.
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So I undertook to learn the facts: What did 19th century constitution-writers really mean when they barred aid for "sectarian" purposes?
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With the country's fractious sectarian leadership yet to name a new premier since protests prompted Saad al-Hariri to quit on Oct.
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The root cause of grievances is the sectarian power-sharing system of governance introduced in Iraq after 2003, analysts and activists say.
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Context: During the campaign, the B.J.P. focused on Hindu-centric initiatives and sectarian identity issues, rather than issues specific to the city.
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Once ostracized over its ties to sectarian violence, Sinn Fein may now be able to claim a seat at the government table.
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That border was erased after the 1998 signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which ended years of sectarian strife in the north.
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His saber-rattling against Iran has intensified a sectarian proxy war between the Gulf States and Iran, raging from Yemen to Syria.
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If the rebels had captured the area — where Alawites are the majority — a result would almost certainly have been sectarian mass murder.
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The 1998 Good Friday Agreement ended three decades of sectarian and political conflict in Northern Ireland that killed more than 3,500 people.
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"This was a sectarian attack," senior police officer Tanveer Shah told Reuters, adding that no group has claimed responsibility for the shooting.
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When it became so sectarian, when it became ethnic cleansing, I could no longer think about the dream of rebuilding the country.
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Baghdad's move underscores the depth of enmity between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim powers as sectarian conflicts rage in Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
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With the country's fractious sectarian leadership yet to name a new premier since protests prompted Saad al-Hariri to quit on Oct.
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It predicted that sectarian tensions, as well as the legacy of authoritarian rule, would pose a serious threat to post-invasion stability.
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The Arab states have demanded Qatar sever any links with the Brotherhood and other groups they deem to be terrorist, ideological or sectarian.
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The Arab states have demanded Qatar sever any links to the Brotherhood and other groups they deem to be terrorist, ideological or sectarian.
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Like its predecessor in Iraq, al Qaeda, Islamic State seeks to create sectarian tensions as a way to destabilize the OPEC oil producer.
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Lebanon's security concerns have escalated since the outbreak of war in neighboring Syria, which has heightened already strained sectarian relations in the country.
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Lebanon, where Sunni, Shi'ite, Christian and Druze groups fought a 1975-1990 civil war, maintains a governing system intended to balance sectarian groups.
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People have fled to this camp from surrounding villages to escape an epidemic of murder and rape fueled by sectarian and ethnic hatred.
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The Good Friday Agreement brought a truce in the "Troubles" — sectarian violence that spread from the streets of Belfast to Dublin and London.
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Or is it going to splinter on sectarian grounds, in which case it's going to be very difficult, very difficult to control ISIS.
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Sectarian riots in Sri Lanka and Myanmar were fueled by fake stories and rumors, often deliberately fabricated to stoke hate against opposing groups.
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With more freedom to do what he wanted, Maliki for the next few years continued, and in many cases deepened, his sectarian rule.
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"But it is hardly a wise strategy if Turkey wants to play a constructive role in regional conflicts and defuse the sectarian tension."
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Though he pleased his hosts, Mr Trump also inflamed sectarian tensions by blaming their rival, Iran, for most of the Middle East's problems.
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The country has seen a U.S.-led invasion in 2003, sectarian violence in 2007 and 2008, and the battle against ISIS most recently.
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Mr Abadi's main failure has been political: he has not broken the hold that sectarian parties, including his own, have on Iraq's coffers.
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Family members of the executed Shiites have denied they were involved in attacks and said they were only peaceful protesters against sectarian discrimination.
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In rivalry with Sunni Saudi Arabia, Iran has fought decades of sectarian proxy war in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and other regional countries.
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In Iraq, bloodshed instigated by religious intolerance and radicalism along sectarian lines tore the country apart after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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Things had been getting worse for women in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, the rise of sectarian strife and fundamentalist Islam.
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"We continue to stand ready for dialogue and accommodation to promote regional stability, combat destabilizing extremist violence and reject sectarian hatred," he wrote.
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This is particularly problematic for ISIS because it thrives most in civil wars with sectarian elements — places where other jihadist groups already operate.
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A politician close to Sadr said the Jeddah meeting was aimed at building confidence and toning down sectarian rhetoric between the two countries.
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Family members of the executed Shi'ites have denied they were involved in attacks and said they were only peaceful protesters against sectarian discrimination.
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Despite its non-sectarian disguise, the new law risks inflaming Islamophobia in a province that has more than its fair share of it.
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The irony that religious faiths have played a key part in shaping our damaged, sectarian world is probably not lost on him, either.
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For all their sectarian bonds with Iranian Shias, the people of Basra fought on the front lines of Iraq's brutal war with Iran.
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Lebanon has one of the world's heaviest public debt burdens, after years of big budget deficits rooted in waste, corruption, and sectarian politics.
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Shi'ite Iran accused Saudi Arabia of using the attack on the embassy as an "excuse" to sever ties and further increase sectarian tensions.
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The Arab states have demanded Qatar cut any links to the Brotherhood and other groups they deem to be terrorist, ideological or sectarian.
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Some rebel groups have been openly armed and supported by the United States and Turkey, and sectarian divisions still run deep in Syria.
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In Yemen, mosques, priceless artefacts and manuscripts are being destroyed in a sectarian civil war in which Western-supplied weapons are being used.
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Unchecked social media is routinely implicated in sectarian brutality, intimate partner violence, violent extremist recruitment, and episodes of mass bullying linked to suicides.
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In the 1990s, he and his parents had settled there after fleeing their homeland, Bosnia, during the era of the Balkans' sectarian wars.
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Iran, for its part, accused Saudi Arabia of using the attack on its embassy to increase sectarian tensions already heightened by the execution.
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Similar allegations have emerged from other remote towns, where peacekeepers were supposed to protect civilians from sectarian fighting between Christian and Muslim militias.
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He said the new government should not include officials accused of corruption and the misuse of power, or officials who promote sectarian separation.
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Saudi and Iranian leaders, among others, exploit sectarian passions to exert influence, but consider developments that could diminish its relevance: Saudi-Iranian détente.
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The country is not divided on ethnic, regional, or sectarian lines like other post-Soviet republics, such as Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Moldova, or Georgia.
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The withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 gave Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki carte blanche to pursue sectarian policies that dismembered the Awakening Councils.
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Earlier presidents thought America's interests were better served in defusing such sectarian divisions and critiquing the dictatorships that oppress Sunnis and Shiites alike.
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Dublin and Brussels say an open border is crucial to preserving the 1998 Good Friday accord that ended decades of Irish sectarian conflict.
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Sectarian violence has been relatively rare in Sunni-dominant Afghanistan, but since 2015 Islamic State has escalated fears by killing scores of Shi'ites.
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Protesters' anger is focused on the perceived corruption of Lebanese sectarian politicians who have dominated the country since the 20053-90 civil war.
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Residents say the lively demonstrations have refashioned the city's image, long tarnished by sectarian violence between rival Sunni Muslim and Alawite Muslim neighborhoods.
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Among them: • Build a local police force with training and expertise and prevent other forces with sectarian agendas from exercising authority in Mosul.
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The Christian experience is one of trauma in a country whose catalog of calamities includes terrorism, religious extremism, crime, coups and sectarian strife.
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Protesters' anger is focused on the perceived corruption of Lebanese sectarian politicians who have dominated the country since the 20053-90 civil war.
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The Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh — the parent organization of Modi's party — had already decided against any celebrations to avoid provoking sectarian violence.
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Mr. Sadr resurfaced in February to lead protests supporting measures by Mr. Abadi to reduce government waste, tackle corruption and end sectarian quotas.
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As Mr. Abadi has pushed to root out corruption, trim government and end sectarian quotas, he has been opposed by other Shiite factions.
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It is no wonder that Imru' al-Qays is a polytheist, a cross-sectarian collaborator, and a love poet, only "passing through" Jerusalem.
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In response, protesters have demanded a new government and the abandonment of the sectarian quota system that has underpinned Iraqi governments since 2003.
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They have also stoked sectarian tension by destroying the shrines of Sufi mystics and declaring Ibadism, the sect of Libya's Berber minority, heretical.
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A series of bombings struck three areas of Baghdad, killing more than 90 people and recalling Iraq's years of sectarian and civil war.
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The allegations reveal fissures in the heart of the country's foremost non-sectarian religious news outlet—and the reverberations are still being felt.
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With the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam, sectarian violence exploded as Shiite leaders exacted revenge for decades of oppression.
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Of the 18 people arrested that day in April, half were charged with sectarian offenses or under Scotland's Offensive Behavior at Football Act.
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The Troubles refer to three decades of sectarian conflict within Northern Ireland, which took place between the late-1960s and the late 1990s.
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The fight against Islamic State has exacerbated a long-running sectarian conflict in Iraq, mostly between the Shi'ite majority and the Sunni minority.
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In Turkey, the Erdogan government's shift toward a dictatorship is polarizing the population along sectarian, political, religious and ethnic lines, fueling the fanatics.
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But with a large Shi'ite minority and a shared western border with Iran, Pakistan has a lot to lose from rising sectarian tensions.
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The second-most deadly attack to hit Kabul since 2001 also targeted Shiites and was seen as an attempt to stoke sectarian violence.
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The attacks have fueled fears that militants in Afghanistan are trying bring in the kind of sectarian brutality seen in the Middle East.
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Most political parties have rejected holding parliamentary elections based on the existing system, a sectarian-based electoral law that dates back to 1960.
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The dispute has raised concerns that once ISIS is defeated, sectarian divisions that allowed for the terrorist group's emergence could flare up anew.
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For many on both sides of the nation's sectarian line, few questions could prove more provocative than whether the muezzin should be muzzled.
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Jhangvi's assassinated father, Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, was a fierce anti-Shia cleric who founded a feared Sunni sectarian group, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan.
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But Karachi itself has a long history of political and sectarian violence, and criminal gangs have also been known to kill police officers.
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While the government has promoted the idea of a secular Syria throughout the war, the conflict's sectarian edge has been hard to miss.
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University of Oklahoma professor and Syria expert Joshua Landis had called this process the "great sorting out" of sectarian identities across the region.
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I'll also find out how the next 33 years of atmospheric change will affect political and sectarian conflicts, famines, and other humanitarian disasters.
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Erdogan has warned of sectarian bloodshed if the Iraqi army relies on Shi'ite militia fighters to retake the largely Sunni city of Mosul.
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There's the normal state of affairs, then startup business contexts, and then further afield from that, religious movements, or even sectarian/extremist ones.
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And militancy experts said the nakedly sectarian attack offered alarming proof that Egypt's hydra-headed Islamist insurgency is growing in complexity and ambition.
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Lebanon's main parties are sectarian, but for elections they create tactical alliances across religious lines to form joint candidate lists for each constituency.
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