Sentence examples for sectarian fears from inspiring English sources

This has brought out the sectarian fears on all sides.

The elites gradually gained the allegiance of the lower-class Protestants by playing upon sectarian fears.

Assad's intelligence apparatus did everything it could to stoke sectarian fears and blunt the protesters' message of peaceful change.

But the ones I spoke to also argued that it does not matter whether the Alawites were duped or not, because their sectarian fears have been realized.

Both stations have been accused of being little more than rebel mouthpieces, and they have played on sectarian fears and hatreds.

They have further sparked sectarian fears, especially among the Alawites which the Assad clan comes from.Drawn-out though the conflict is proving, progress is being made.

This has embittered what started as peaceful uprisings in Bahrain and Syria, where ruling minorities have used brute force and sectarian fear-mongering to maintain control.

Today this is almost impossible because there are no longer 150,000 US troops in Iraq, IS has shown it will kill anybody opposing it, and Sunni-Shia sectarian fear and hatred is deeper than ever.

In the port city of Latakia, a stronghold of Mr Assad's ruling Alawite minority, thugs belonging to the shabiha, an Alawite smuggling gang loyal to the Assad family, have sown confusion by playing on sectarian fear.

Iraq, now shakily ruled by its Shia majority after ugly years of sectarian war, fears what may happen if Syria's Sunni majority, three-quarters of the population, seized power after decades of domination by Mr Assad's Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam numbering a tenth of Syria's people.

For two hours we walk the neighbourhood chanting against corruption, unemployment, sectarian division, fear.