Qadar said the local FA reflected Kirkuk's tradition of coexistence, at odds with the sectarian mayhem in the rest of the country.
Even many of those who know that a two-state peace settlement is far from imminent believe that a binational state represents not a promise of democracy and coexistence but a blueprint for sectarian strife — Lebanon in the eighties, Yugoslavia in the nineties.
One of the big questions hanging over the operation to rout Isis is whether that reputation for coexistence can be reclaimed after two years of sectarian violence and poisonous propaganda.
Mr. Douri's death is a double blow, given his efforts to promote Sunni-Shiite coexistence in a section of Baghdad especially riven by sectarian killing and displacement.
The village tolerance and Hindu-Muslim coexistence that Gandhi had hoped would prevail in postcolonial India gave way, in Kashmir, to sectarian battles, fitfully halted by United Nations-arranged ceasefires, and to terrorism aligned with global Islam.
Sectarian tensions are rising.
Coexistence projects suffered.
There will be coexistence.
