One of the big questions hanging over the operation to rout Isis is whether that reputation for coexistence can be reclaimed after two years of sectarian violence and poisonous propaganda.
Should UC professors be warned not to expose students to material that reflects negatively on "race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, handicap, or occupation, or that contain any sectarian or denominational doctrine or propaganda contrary to law"?
Alloush's early propaganda videos were overtly sectarian, urging the expulsion of Shias and Alawites from Damascus.
It is not Iran, but America's Gulf Arab allies that have played the sectarian "card" -- not just through well-funded propaganda, but also by backing violent (and virulently anti-Shi'a) Sunni extremists across the Middle East.
But, at the same time, pamphlets were also used during the English Civil War period as a cynical political propaganda tool to whip up racial and sectarian hatred, most markedly in the parliament's fight against the king.
In fact, our engagement in Iraq in the complete sectarian mess and fighting going on there actually makes the propaganda that [Isis] is putting out even worse in terms of trying to attract young people from around the world as more and more foreign boots come on the ground".
Encouraged by Chetnik propaganda against Croats and Bosnian Muslims and repelled by the sectarian left-wing policies and actions of the communists, many Serb peasant fighters were swayed to the Chetnik cause.
While there are those who argue that there is no sectarian problem in Syria, claiming that talks about it are mere Zionist propaganda, the delegates who convened in Turkey know better, and they are diligently working to try and separate the Alawite community at large from the Assad regime.
This interdiction comes at an extremely delicate time in Yemen, with the government largely paralyzed, sectarian tensions rising and accusations of Iranian interference — which have long been used as a propaganda tool here — on the increase.
Propaganda too frequently ignores man as a totality, concentrating on him aspectively in terms of politics or sectarian religion.
