Sentence examples for sectarian thinking from inspiring English sources

The assembly can work only if politicians break out of their sectarian thinking.

While sectarian thinking is revealed as brainwashing, the girl's viewpoint makes for a relentless narrative.

"I have tried to get the sectarian thinking out of the minds of the Sunni and the Alawites," he said.

Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, Australia's grand mufti, said choosing refugees based on religion or ethnicity was the very kind of sectarian thinking "that got Iraq and Syria into the problems they're facing now".

Sipah is widely viewed as the ideological center of sectarian thinking in Pakistan; its most notorious offshoot is Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the militant group responsible for much of the sectarian bloodshed this year: roadside executions, drive-by shootings and two major suicide attacks in the western city of Quetta that killed almost 200 people earlier this year.

By renouncing the Protestantism he had so conspicuously stood for, Northumberland lost every respect and became ineligible for rehabilitation in a world dominated by thinking along sectarian lines.

Instead, we have gone back to thinking that regional powers, sectarian leaders and tribal elders are the most important power brokers.

As I was watching yesterday's hearings, I was thinking of the sensible yet sectarian Musawi.

"This country, to my way of thinking, cannot be successful if it ever divides on sectarian lines," he declared.

I joined the FSA, thinking our aim was to have a democratic liberal Syria, not a sectarian one.

And unfortunately, it is a direct product of America's misguided thinking about Iraq since the 2003 invasion — an approach that stressed proportional sectarian representation rather than national unity and moderate Islamism.