Sentence examples for as a sectarian issue from inspiring English sources

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?

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

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

"This is not a sectarian issue.

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

The two Gulf states see ousting President Assad as a sectarian as well as a strategic matter.

(One challenger referred to the vertically-challenged president as a "sectarian dwarf").

The regime is trying to portray this as a sectarian crime, but it is not".

Alliance described the unionist pact as anti-democratic and the SDLP described it as "a sectarian carve-up".

Meanwhile, the Syrian war did not start as a sectarian conflict but it has become one, our correspondent says.

The war in Syria didn't start as a sectarian fight, but it's turning into one.