Sentence examples for sectarian hostility from inspiring English sources

Behind these political fault lines lies a deep sectarian hostility: Saudis are increasingly angry about the mistreatment of their fellow Sunni Muslims in Syria by an Alawite regime they see as heretical.

For their part, many Alawites, though often against Mr Assad's harsh tactics, have been forced back into supporting him on account of sectarian hostility, fearing they would be targeted if he were to fall.

In the latest violence 24 people were killed on April 5th in a suicide-bomb attack, calculated to foment sectarian hostility, on a Shia mosque in Chakwal in Punjab province.

Many Lebanese, including quite a few Shias, now accuse the group of holding the country hostage to Iranian policy, particularly during the current stand-off between Iran and Israel.Examples of recent sectarian hostility proliferate.

The animosity toward Baghdad among the Sunnis here "worries me, but I don't despair of it," he said, adding that he thought the government's lack of support was more a result of bureaucratic inefficiency than sectarian hostility.

In many Arab states, the uprisings have unleashed sectarian hostility that had been on the rise, but contained under repressive regimes that had little tolerance for freedom of expression.

By ordering the Shia militia into a Sunni-dominated region, Abadi runs the risk of their presence sparking sectarian hostilities.

Rioting in Belfast today forced the authorities to close a Roman Catholic girls' school that became a focus last fall of the province's sectarian hostilities.

The rush of recent events — including bombings and assassinations in Damascus and Aleppo, and intensifying violence in northern Lebanon coming directly out of the sectarian hostilities in Syria — suggest that the Assad government now also faces antagonists across its borders.

The Syrian government has continued its brutal crackdown on antigovernment protesters, laying siege to towns and causing thousands of civilians to flee amid growing fears of deepening sectarian hostilities and even the possibility of civil war.

Nowhere is the cross-border nature of sectarian hostilities more clear than in Iraq's western desert, where Sunni Arabs are beginning to rally to the cause of the Syrian opposition and, in the process, perhaps strengthen their hand in dealings with an antagonistic Shiite-led national government in Baghdad.