Sentence examples for a sectarian issue from inspiring English sources

Numerous activists think the government planted the name online to try to turn the protests into a sectarian issue.

Indonesia's vice-president, Jusuf Kalla, said the executions should be regarded as a legal and not a sectarian issue.

Those who would try to tout this as a sectarian issue do an injustice to the people of Egypt in all their religions.Similarly, Fahmi Huwaydi questions whether such attacks would have occurred in a more cohesive and stable Egyptian society, in al-Shorouk, an independent daily:What is it that imbued these killers with the audacity to go forward with this most heinous deed?

"This is not a sectarian issue.

"There is a paradigm shift here that says we have to do something about the sectarian issue".

"I think all of us... regardless of our differences on Syria, we need to work together on the sectarian issue," he said.

"After the demonstrations in Baghdad and elsewhere throughout the country, the sectarian issue between the Sunnis and the Shiites has become less than before," Al-Suwaij told HuffPost.

They have the highest level of education and a significant part of the country's wealth, and sectarian issues play a very minimal role within their circles.

But Reidar Visser, a specialist on Iraq's sectarian issues at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, said that "apart from the Kurds in the north, there is no unanimous, popular demand for federalism or soft partition or any partition at all".

"But in poorer countries, sectarian issues are really a problem .Regional competition between Riyadh and Tehran is nothing new; ascendent Iranian influence is, however.

Rangers vs Celtic Scotland's "Old Firm" derby match is more than a century old, and seldom free of sectarian issues between the predominantly Protestant 'Gers and the Catholic Celtic.