More than 45,000 Iraqis went home in 2007, some of them driven by the hardship of life in refugee camps, but 885,000 left the country for reasons that included violence, sectarian conflict and economic difficulty.
The Kurds are resisting, underscoring yet again the depth of ethnic and sectarian divisions here and the difficulty of creating a united Iraq even when overall violence is down.
In certain regards, Bhattacharyya notes, Shaktism has so infused mainstream Hinduism that it has "ceased to be a sectarian religion," and presents "no difficulty for anyone to accept its essence".
I see nothing but difficulty and the engendering of constant sectarian feuds and bad feeling, if the Federal Government touches anything that is religious".(12).
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he was discouraged by the resignation of the Sunnis from Iraq's cabinet and that the Bush administration might have misjudged the difficulty of achieving reconciliation between Iraq's sectarian factions.
Falling out, but not yet apart Reprints Related items Bagehot: The Labour Party and the dinner partyMay 20th 2004 Donald Rumsfeld: What did he know?May 20th 2004Like the Americans before him, Mr Brahimi has had difficulty finding leaders capable of appealing beyond their own narrow sectarian constituencies.
That produces monsters which spiral out of control, including sectarian groups that have now taken on the broader agenda of al-Qaeda.New name, old ideologyTypical of the difficulties this has created is Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP), the biggest Sunni sectarian group, which has members almost everywhere in Pakistan and continues to operate openly.
His difficulty, however, is that his potential moral authority has been badly undermined by the divisive, sectarian tactics that have been deployed in his campaign.
Because of the sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland that has caused more than 3,200 deaths in the last three decades, the province has had more difficulty than the rest of Britain in attracting foreign investors.
