Sentence examples for sectarian roots from inspiring English sources

They're allied to their religious and sectarian roots and that's what's driving the insurgency.

"It is too bound to its own sectarian roots, and it is too tied to forces in Iraq which do not yield themselves to compromise".

The exodus inflamed sectarian tensions rooted in Assad's longstanding favouritism of his Alawite sect – many members of which are relatives and tribal allies – over the Sunni majority.

And if that was true in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is equally true of any potential Western role between Sunni and Shia, a sectarian dispute whose roots go back to the age of the Prophet.

Its timeliness lies partly in uncovering the roots of sectarian enmity in traumatic events that are still officially taboo.

By the time of independence, the seeds of sectarian hatred had taken root.

The turmoil, rooted in sectarian tensions, comes just days after the formal end of the American military mission there.

They establish a set of "benchmarks"—expanding the participation in government of the minority Sunnis, sharing oil revenues more fairly among all the main groups, improving the performance of the Iraqi army and police, rooting out sectarian militias and so on for the government of Nuri al-Maliki to meet.

Concerns that this first pairing of the clubs for nearly three years could unleash pent-up aggression between rivals fans, and spark the sectarian tensions at their root, resulted in a huge policing operation, with leave cancelled and highly visible patrols across the city centre.

Many Sunnis believe the flawed justice process is rooted in sectarian hatred.

There is now a government in Baghdad that has declared war on corruption and nepotism and intends to root out sectarian discord.