Sentence examples for sectarian mix from inspiring English sources

Homs, Syria's third-largest city, has a sectarian mix that mirrors the nation.

The unresolved refugee crisis has been particularly destablising in Lebanon, whose fragile sectarian mix is being increasingly unsettled by the influx of primarily Sunni Muslim refugees.

"People are talking about a very different Ramadan this year," said Um Janti, a homemaker from Homs, a city with a combustible sectarian mix that has emerged as a flashpoint.

BAGHDAD — The leader of Iraq's largest Shiite political party said Friday that the neighborhood patrols credited with calming many Sunni areas must submit to government authority and include a broader sectarian mix.

Petraeus's next war A new captain's new crew Correction: Elephants in Congo Reprints Related items Syria: Still more murk than lightAug 14th 2008The biter is bittenFearful of a spillover of sectarian troubles from both Iraq and Lebanon into Syria, an officially secular country with an equally combustible sectarian mix, Syrian authorities have grown increasingly intolerant of jihadists.

With its volatile sectarian mix, Homs had long been at the heart of the uprising against Assad's rule.

Strikingly absent in all of this have been the usual phrases that frequently buzz around religious involvement in politics: "absolutism," "intrusion," "imposing sectarian views," "mixing church and state".

Long troubled, the town has a complicated sectarian and ethnic mix.

A local al-Qaeda wing and Sunni Islamists have stepped up their campaign this year to undermine the Shi'ite-led government and stoke confrontation among the country's combustible sectarian and ethnic mix.

Evidenced in the relationships that define the Syrian civil war, a toxic mix of sectarian hatred and political ambition is infecting the region.

In Afghanistan it is also true, however, that sectarian and ethnic lines sometimes mix.