Sentence examples for sectarian backlash from inspiring English sources

The bombing at the Sunni mosque could have been the work of Shiite militias, which have kept a low profile in recent years, or Sunni militants hoping to set off a sectarian backlash against Shiites.

But Hezbollah's intervention has caused a sectarian backlash across the region.

Activists have also pointed out that no security was provided to Coptic churches, even though a sectarian backlash had been widely predicted.

Retaking it is a massive challenge to the Iraqi government, which has had to appeal to the Shia militias despite risks of a sectarian backlash from sending them deep into the Sunni heartland, our correspondent adds.

"There has been a risk of a sectarian backlash for sometime but so far Yemen has avoided it," said Baron.

In the battle for Mosul, it has supposedly been agreed that neither Shi'ite fighters nor Kurdish peshmerga will enter the city when it falls to avoid stoking a sectarian backlash.

Serviced mainly by Sunni radicals from the wider Arab world, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia (as it calls itself) was responsible for most of the huge car bombs that terrorised Shia communities and provoked their backlash of sectarian cleansing, almost tipping Iraq into full-scale civil war two years ago.

Success on the ground is intensifying the backlash from Sunnis, fueling sectarian anger.

The backlash has been split along sectarian lines, with Saudi Arabia and its Sunni government-led allies Sudan, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE severing diplomatic ties to Iran.

Stoking sectarian tensions is dangerous at a time when Turkey is exposed to backlash against its involvement in Syria.

One has been to stoke sectarian tension by provoking fears among Syria's many minorities of a backlash by extremists within the Sunni majority.