So sectarian rivalry is once again to the fore.
For example, I grew up in a very, very sectarian fundamentalist church in Texas.
After years of sectarian violence, Iraq cannot afford to play such dangerous games.
Kurdish and Sunni Arab leaders say Mr. Jaafari has not done enough to ease sectarian violence.
"Only one or two censuses in the world... have ever asked the sectarian question," said Grim.
The police have proven peculiarly inept at stemming sporadic But recurrent bouts of sectarian strife.
Listen carefully, and he admits that big risks lurk: a slide into violent extremism, sectarian conflict or entrenched military power.
But their attacks are stirring up deep-seated Syrian fears of sectarian strife, and the government is playing on this.
This is again a radically sectarian kind of stance, and in fact, there's nothing here about loving outsiders.
John's church seems to be a very sectarian group, why does he talk so much about dark and light?
The bombings have diminished from the height of the sectarian conflict several years ago. But the largely-sectarian violence continues to kill and maim hundreds of people every month.
Lebanon, briefly euphoric under the banner of people-power six years ago, is torn by sectarian rivalry.
With the country paralyzed by sectarian violence and on the verge of civil war, the national soccer team was a rare beacon of hope and unity.
The (Sunni) Arab world loathes and fears Iran on sectarian grounds and also because it espouses a revolutionary doctrine of the sort that kings and dictators find disquieting.
More and better jobs, and rising living standards, may not be enough to banish the sectarian divide, but their absence could well widen it again.
No one is claiming all the sects love each other but there is no history of sectarian strife in Syria and little appetite for it now.
We believe the patriotism that binds Bahrainis together must be more powerful than the sectarian forces that would tear them apart. It will be hard, but it is possible.
They are bound to promote the cause of Iraqis likely to be most friendly towards them, but they should resist backing candidates who stir sectarian rivalries as a means to power.
Some assert that such incidents, as well as pre-revolutionary terror attacks targeting Egyptian Copts, may instead be the work of rogue secret policemen, whose aim is to stir sectarian divisions.
It is highly unlikely that any one electoral alliance will win a majority of least one alliance that is predicted to do well has a secular and admirably non-sectarian outlook.
Such cadres and leaders must be free from selfishness, from individualistic heroism, ostentation, sloth, passivity, and sectarian arrogance, and they must be selfless national and class heroes; such are the qualities and the style of work demanded of the members, cadres and leaders of our Party.
