Sentence examples for sectarian diversity from inspiring English sources

All Muslims should be united.Syria has long been known for its sectarian diversity.

In the two countries with significant sectarian diversity, Iraq and Lebanon, sectarian identity was a leading determinant of voting behavior.

"We must recognize that Lebanon is a country mostly affected by what is going on around it, especially in Syria, because of sectarian and political diversity, and conflict of interest," he said.

Lebanese political leaders have tried hard to avoid stirring sectarian sentiment, emphasizing the religious diversity of both the governing coalition and the Hezbollah-led opposition movement.

Many Syrians, sensitive to their own religious and ethnic diversity and conscious of sectarian mayhem next-door in Iraq, have reacted passively to their government's latest crackdown.

What is needed on the new blank page of Arab politics is a movement that can incorporate the diversity of these protesters, cutting across sectarian lines.

Diplomats and opposition figures have spoken in darker tones lately about what may be ahead in Syria: a failed state perhaps, or sectarian conflict playing on Syria's potentially volatile diversity.

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As was the case in Iraq, a sectarian lens is often unfairly imposed on Syria's diversity, with its sizable communities of Christians, Alawites and ethnic Kurds.

It brings together men and women from almost all the country's many ethnic groups, and the chair is a woman, a rare example of diversity in a country where ethnic and sectarian divisions are often exploited for political ends, and women are frequently marginalised.

Syria's ethnic and religious diversity also makes it vulnerable to exploitation by regional sectarian powers.