Sentence examples for sectarian sentiments from inspiring English sources

The blood already shed, the sectarian sentiments it has stirred, and the hardening Cold War nature of the web of alliances being forged around the deepening Syrian conflict makes polarization more likely, not less.

But, accusing the opposition of abuses, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday in an open letter to the Syrian National Council, the main umbrella opposition group, that some armed attacks by opposition fighters were motivated by religious and sectarian sentiments arising from the association of some communities with government policies.

And the news media, especially Arabic-language satellite channels, are brimming with blatantly offensive sectarian sentiments and contributing to an atmosphere of crisis and impending disaster — prompted in no small measure by the nefarious work of bigoted and ignorant clerics, often inspired by the intolerant ideology of Wahhabist Islam.

Using and fueling sectarian sentiments is a wicked strategy which the regime often employs.

Lebanese political leaders have tried hard to avoid stirring sectarian sentiment, emphasizing the religious diversity of both the governing coalition and the Hezbollah-led opposition movement.

If the Shias now make laws that appear to derive from a purely Shia interpretation of Islam, the insurgents may stir up Sunni sectarian sentiment, even as the nationalist argument for fighting fades.

In the face of deep-rooted sectarian sentiment in Northern Ireland and the pervasive nature of "separateness" between the Protestant and Catholic communities, this article examines school projects designed to promote community cohesion and assesses the role that information and communications technology (ICT) can play to encourage collaboration within a social psychology framework.

Over the past four years the vicious war in Syria has amplified sectarian sentiment so that Alawites are now identified en masse with Bashar al-Assad and Sunnis with the opposition.

The continuing Syrian conflict has further inflamed sectarian sentiment so that the Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam, are now identified en masse with the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and Sunnis with the opposition and rebel groups.

But there has also been a hardening of sectarian sentiment on the Sunni side, as a new report by the European Council on Foreign Relations, a London-based think-tank, makes clear.Take the influential Qatari-based Sunni preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi (pictured), who in years past was a supporter of Sunni-Shia rapprochement.

What is happening in Syria today is not only a case of unparalleled regime brutality, it is a war in which the opposition has matched the regime with a violence that is as unconstrained as it is stained with sectarian sentiment.