Sentence examples for sectarian feeling from inspiring English sources

But sectarian feeling has seeped in.

The parliament in Kuwait, home to a sizeable Shia minority, earlier this month condemned attempts to use Syria to stir up sectarian feeling.

In another mark of how high sectarian feeling is running, Friday's televised sermon for weekly prayers at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca included an outspoken personal attack on Assad - a tyrant whose troops he said had raped women, killed children and destroyed homes over the past two years.

Sectarian feelings have been kept in check, thanks largely to the Shia and Kurdish leaders.

Ms. Mobaslat, of Save the Children, said aid workers with her group avoided bringing up sectarian feelings directly because they tried not to start conversations they could not resolve.

"Oppression, corruption and regional involvement (namely Iran) which enhanced the sectarian feelings and reaction, influenced by the Arab Spring movement encouraged the Syrian people to dash to streets calling for freedom and the collapse of Assad's dictatorship," he said.

Unable to lend much material weight to America's efforts, fearful of a negative backlash should America actually strike Iran, and unwilling to be seen as acting in Israel's interest, Arab countries appear to have chosen to exploit sectarian feelings to send a shot across Iran's bows.With typical circumlocution, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia recently said as much.

This, along with the regime's arming of Alawite villages and reports that Sunni prisoners are being mockingly told to declare Bashar Assad their deity, has stirred sectarian feelings; some 10,000 Syrians suspected of dissidence are now said to be behind bars.

He has pandered to sectarian Sunni feeling and to Turks' prickly nationalism, caricaturing opponents as traitors working for Western interests and talking of foreign plots.

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).

Such incidents often have their roots in petty local squabbles, but their tendency to take nasty sectarian turns has left Copts feeling vulnerable, making them cling even more tightly to their church.Some observers detect signs that the wave of religiosity which started in the 1970s may have crested.