On Iraq's Al-'Ahd satellite channel, a Shi'ite cleric demonizes Sunnis, typifying a trans-sectarian trend in extremist broadcasting across the region.
On Iraq's Al-'Ahd satellite channel, a Shi'ite cleric demonizes Sunnis, typifying a trans-sectarian trend in extremist broadcasting across the region.
In his testimony, General Petraeus presented charts on suicide-bombing trends, sectarian killings, civilian deaths, roadside bombings and arms caches found.
He added that this was just "one incident" in a larger trend of sectarian politics that has been displacing secular India over the past thirty years.
Although it was just the latest incident in a sinister trend of sectarian violence in Pakistan, the attack prompted a swifter political response.
If censorship continues, he went on, "India will cease to be a free country". He added that this was just "one incident" in a larger trend of sectarian politics that has been displacing secular India over the past thirty years.
To reverse this growing trend of sectarian violence and bloodshed, we must go back and undo the root cause -- the second amendment.
"Due to the upsurge in sectarian violence in 2006, this trend of repatriation has reversed itself, and at present more Iraqis are fleeing their homes to other areas of Iraq and to neighboring countries than are returning," Sauerbrey said.
We also see a trend of rising sectarian tensions within communities and fractured regional cooperation.
The new statistics showing an increase in civilian deaths due to armed clashes, assassinations and sectarian killings are consistent with trends documented by other agencies and groups monitoring the violence in Iraq.
Are the monarchs of the Persian Gulf really so comfortable as the price of oil slides well below $80 a barrel, sectarian hostility and extremist Islamist trends grow, and regimes haplessly jail dissidents and try to silence Twitter?
