The U.S. military "surge" launched this spring, in which thirty thousand additional American forces arrived in Baghdad, has helped to stabilize Saidiya's sectarian borders.
Emerging from this quantum leap is a universal spirituality (USP) that removes ideological, gnostic, denominational, and sectarian borders within and across religions.
Bahrain, whose population of about 500,000 citizens and 200,000 expatriates, is two-thirds Shiite, faced sectarian strife bordering on civil war a decade ago.
The bloodshed will not be confined to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, because sectarian conflicts know no borders.
The insurrection in Syria, led by the country's Sunni majority in opposition to a government dominated by Alawites, an offshoot of Shiism, is increasingly unpredictable and dangerous because it is aggravating sectarian tensions beyond its borders in a region already shaken by religious and ethnic divisions.
Tension will rise further if Israel launches air raids, as it has done several times since January, to deter Iran from funnelling weapons through Syria to Hizbullah.While sectarian violence peppers the borders of Lebanon, its members of parliament have failed to agree to an election law for polls set for June.
Lebanon has officially adopted a policy of dissociation from the Syrian conflict, which has pitted President Assad's Alawite minority against a Sunni-dominated rebellion, but violence is beginning to spill over the border, intensifying sectarian tensions in Lebanon.
As the Syrian war has worsened, Lebanese political leaders from these two main blocs have insisted they are trying to quarantine the feeble state from steeply rising sectarian tensions over the border.
There were also reports of sectarian fighting near the border with Lebanon around the Syrian town of Qusayr, a focal point between insurgent Sunni fighters and Shiite militants loyal to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant organization that has sided with PresidentBashar al-Assad of Syria in the conflict and partly depends on him for weapons.
In an attempt to prevent sectarian aggression within its own borders, the Saudi government has launched a crackdown against extremists of all hues.
The full conclusion of the deal would be a rare bright spot in Syria's civil war, which has left more than 100,000 people dead, sent millions of refugees streaming across international borders and exacerbated sectarian tensions across the Middle East.
