Sentence examples for sectarian fragmentation from inspiring English sources

It's not so much telling as wearyingly predictable that Glanz doesn't even attempt to address substantively Cockburn's argument that the sectarian fragmentation of Iraq is now irreversible.

The sectarian fragmentation that makes Lebanon the Arab world's most tolerant society also tends to generate scrappy, paranoid politics, as leaders fear that any change may favour rivals.

Once a major religion, Jainism declined due to a number of factors, including proselytising by other religious groups, persecution, withdrawal of royal patronage, sectarian fragmentation and the absence of central leadership.

When some of them were recently replaced by governments "reflecting the will of the people," some already proved to be more repressive than their predecessors (e.g. Hamas in Gaza) others seem to be going in this direction (e.g., the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt) and yet others seem to lead to tribal and sectarian fragmentation (e.g., Libya and probably Syria).

Instead of lurching towards sectarian divisions and ethnic fragmentation, stability in the Middle East is possible by turning to unity and integration once again.

Without luck, some analysts foresee a mini-Iraq in the making, a new miasma of civil war, fragmentation and sectarian conflict.

And it is essential that the new Iraq is granted a wide measure of federalism, not just to accommodate the Kurds (with the disputed city of Kirkuk having a special status) but also to give Iraqis more local freedoms and responsibility.So far, there has been little sign of Iraq's much-mooted fragmentation along sectarian lines.

However, there are also some who see Iraqi events as the beginning of collapse, partition, fragmentation, and bloody sectarian warfare in the entire Arab region.

Turkish officials say they are concerned about the fragmentation of Syria, which has deep sectarian fault lines.

Opposition sources say Syria's coastal region could serve as an Alawite statelet if Assad should lose control of Damascus, a potential fragmentation of Syria along ethnic and sectarian lines that raises the prospect of many more deaths.

So far, there had been no sectarian strife, no al-Qaida suicide bombers, no Iraq-style fragmentation.