But Tommy Makem tried always to separate his love of country from the horrors of sectarianism.
There's no in between,there's no gray area, you're either in or you're out, so scholars define this by talking about Johannine sectarianism, the insider-outsider divisions.
But despite rising fears of sectarianism, especially among the Alawites, the chants of "Syrians are one" and evidence of mixed protests suggest that Syria's uprising is not about religion divisions.
After the Yan'an rectification movement, which among other things, opposed sectarianism, the whole Party achieved a new level of unity, and this provided the basic guarantee for our victories in the War of Resistance and the War of Liberation [1946-49].
