I am even more appalled that the United States Air Force Academy has invited someone with such a religiously divisive and sectarian message to speak at its upcoming National Prayer Luncheon, an event that should be inclusive of Airmen of all faiths.
These may entail religiously-motivated armed conflict, terrorism, mob or sectarian violence, harassment regarding religious attire or other faith-based intimidation or abuse. .
But the sect has tried to ignite a sectarian war in the religiously mixed, central city, including through a series of church bombs on Christmas Day 2011.
A spokesman for the Free Syrian Army claimed the government planted the device to stir up sectarian tension in a religiously mixed area.
For over a century, taxpayer-funded public schools that were governed by locally elected school boards lived side-by-side with privately funded and governed non-sectarian and religiously-affiliated schools.
The bloodshed in Syria, part of a wider struggle for regional supremacy between Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran, has aggravated sectarian anger across the Middle East and drawn religiously motivated foreign fighters to both sides.
Sectarian kidnappings and killings have started dividing a religiously diverse city and creating new borders.
Most returnees are also going back to religiously homogeneous neighborhoods, she said, where they feel safer and more protected from sectarian strife.
Jos, a religiously mixed hub in the centre of the country, has periodically erupted in sectarian violence, although many residents now feel that plays into the hands of the Islamists.
Lt. Gordon J. Klingenschmitt, a Navy chaplain, has lost a three-year battle to stay in the chaplain corps after superiors warned him about delivering sectarian Christian prayers and sermons at a sailor's memorial service and other events attended by religiously diverse audiences.
