Sadr's decision will also exacerbate sectarian tensions between the Sunni and Shiite elite. |
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But it has been pursued with the same sectarian, thuggish, and ultimately self-defeating spirit. |
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At the Agreement's heart was a Stormont Assembly that institutionalised the sectarian divide. |
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The LEJ and other fanatical Sunni groups have a history of sectarian violence in Pakistan. |
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On Baghdad's streets, rumors are rife about renegade ministry of interior death squads, carrying out sectarian killings. |
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Meanwhile, three police officers were injured when sectarian rioting erupted on the streets of north Belfast on Sunday night. |
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The press charged that the statement contained the same poisons that ignite sectarian strife. |
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I agree that sectarian clashes are a curse and there is need to bring these to an end. |
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And as political questions move down the agenda, so cultural and purely sectarian conflicts have risen to the fore. |
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He developed a theory of the downturn in the class struggle to justify this sectarian line. |
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Where sectarian activity can be proven among a club's support you suspend the club's licence. |
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Access to the school had been the focus of a bitter sectarian dispute last year lasting over four months. |
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The results exposed deepening sectarian polarisation between nationalist and unionist voters. |
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Chomsky himself has made some of the most deplorable, petty and doubtless sectarian attacks of any leftist I know. |
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Even amid the worst sectarian violence, boxers here had a kind of diplomatic immunity. |
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But when sectarian dominance in any form has reared its ugly head, things have been bad. |
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Had she ever been involved in any sectarian conflict when she was growing up? |
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The public power belongs to everyone and when majorities hijack it for sectarian purposes they act oppressively. |
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Many Iraqis hope that it will head off sectarian strife and even civil war. |
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His world was deeply imbued in a Calvinist orthodoxy that was to take on sectarian overtones. |
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What they did not bargain for was that the war would awaken a volcano of sectarian resentment. |
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Religious, without being sectarian, and a great socializer, Harley always wore a walrus moustache. |
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Muslims across all sectarian lines maintain Muharram to be the month of great solemnity. |
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To me he is false, a bluffer, a hypocrite, a sectarian, a coward and an opportunist. |
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It's the mother of all tribal sectarian conflicts and it's hard to articulate it without taking sides. |
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It must stop exalting its own worst excesses and re-invent itself as a cultural organisation free of the taint of sectarian triumphalism. |
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But these sectarian Baptists find their interests intertwined with the mineworkers, many of whom are their fellow members or clergy. |
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Both sides include sectarian parties that were organised militias during the civil war, and have supported neoliberal polices. |
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Such practices create real grievances, encourage mediocrity, and are bound to inflame sectarian resentment. |
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The false accusations we heard in the news media last week incite sectarian sedition. |
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He made it clear that he considered those involved in sectarian violence to be terrorists. |
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She has been campaigning for a sectarian element to be incorporated into Scots law since she set up the organisation almost two years ago. |
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He was also involved in the policing of presidential and Royal visits, marches and sectarian rioting. |
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Many Protestant denominations, with their sectarian origins, view society as inherently sinful, serving Mammon rather than God. |
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The Taoiseach regarded northern nationalism as being as conservative and sectarian as the regime it opposed. |
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Holy Fire is not a sacral rite, but a sectarian battle standard and, as she earnestly tries to prove, a fraud. |
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Old Firm fans who might be tempted down the sectarian route ought to look at the men who manage their respective teams. |
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The province has been ridden by a sectarian conflict that has claimed more than 2,000 lives and displaced more than 750,000 people. |
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The only upside is that for a while, sectarian suspicions were put on hold as Sunni mosques organized relief for Shi'ite families. |
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Unlike his predecessor, who was seen as ecumenical, Benedict is seen as a sectarian who will not reach out to other religions. |
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As for the government, this dumbo claims that it's democratic, but as you know, it is a one-man sectarian dictatorship. |
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We can point, randomly, to instances that fuelled the fire of sectarian hatred. |
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The exploitation of sectarian disputes within a movement to discredit its members is time-honored and disreputable. |
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Even way back then the great steel hulks we slid past had their quota of sectarian jibes daubed crudely on the ferrous red ship plates. |
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Furthermore, a significant percentage of those organizations have been pervasively sectarian and used religious criteria in their hiring. |
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The deliberate sectarian gerrymander that the Northern state was in the first instance has now disappeared, eroded by demographics. |
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The religious leader said politicians were trying to use religion to further their own ends, using sectarian violence as a tool. |
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Most of the kidnappings are by criminal groups that want a ransom, or sectarian groups that want to sow divisions. |
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The incursion of sectarian orthodoxy in Indian history involves two distinct problems, to wit, narrow sectarianism, and unreasoned orthodoxy. |
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Originating in sectarian rivalry for land in Ulster, they had become general redressers of rural grievances, with overwhelmingly local concerns. |
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In turn it is the working class who are the main victims of sectarian division. |
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Or will it deepen old wounds, increase sectarian tension and fuel more bloodshed? |
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Political and sectarian violence destabilized the new state from the outset. |
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Each religion educates its young in a sectarian way, for religionists believe that to learn one specific path is sufficient and necessary. |
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Moreover, it would be a mistake to imagine that the extensive denominational press was narrowly sectarian. |
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As I said, the opposition to the elections is a national, not a denominational or sectarian, movement. |
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Plans for economic expansion inevitably had sectarian implications, given the religious and political geography of the region. |
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One could view such Pentecostal sectarian movements as prefigurations of contemporary developments. |
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By implication, black feminism is cast as sectarian in comparison with radical or socialist feminism. |
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The measures came as sectarian attacks threaten to derail a fragile peace deal. |
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On the other, they have seen them as fomenters of sectarian discord in what should be the united Arab nation. |
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It has banned a number of sectarian and fundamentalist groups reputed to have links with terrorist groups. |
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The wee Glasgow derby may lack the sectarian undertones of the big one, but it lacks none of the mutual antipathy. |
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We are still in the process of ensuring that this armament is not sectarian in nature. |
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And like any church, Adventism of course has its sectarian movements and offshoots. |
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This movement transcended religious and sectarian divisions and was determined to end the US-led occupation. |
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The truth is that the Orange Order can no longer parade in a nakedly sectarian and triumphalist fashion. |
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The truth is that Northern Ireland is a state which nurtures sectarian divide and rule. |
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But, after the earliest period, sectarian denominations became less and less important. |
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Today those closest to our violent past seem to dominate the political landscape and many remain entranced by sectarian concerns. |
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They realise that we are non political, non sectarian and are just a group who want to help. |
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It is not too much to say that the colonialist condition and its sectarian history drove a wedge between the populace and its writers. |
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They have been forced to hire devotees of sectarian Orthodoxy, who inevitably influence the religious orientation of their students. |
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In northern Iraq, sectarian tensions are also escalating in the wake of the referendum. |
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The demonstration spanned the city's traditional sectarian divide, with marchers coming from every area. |
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One way to avoid any kind of sectarian essentializing leading to religious fanaticism is to read these texts in comparative and inclusive ways. |
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Sectarian difference is something Scots and Americans happen to know a great deal about, ecclesiastically speaking. |
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Lastly, the rise in sectarian intra-Muslim fundamentalism in Indonesia is a further area to watch. |
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In reality, the Iraqi borders had been arbitrarily drawn and disregarded 2,000 years of tribal, sectarian, and nomadic occupation. |
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On the other side an enraged, radicalized and increasingly sectarian and bloody-minded Islamist opposition. |
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The opposition needs to gets its act together quickly if the bogeyman of sectarian division is to be avoided. |
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In three major towns in Antrim, the sectarian ratchet is being turned up. |
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Everyone knew that that reality could easily, indeed would likely, devolve into the sectarian disaster we see now. |
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Almost everything in the Middle East is now being defined along sectarian lines, and disastrously so. |
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If the U.S. does nothing, the Arab world will continue its slide into sectarian bigotry, political repression, and madness. |
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It allows Maliki to obscure his own corruption and the role his sectarian policies played in fomenting the crisis. |
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This would seem disastrous in the give-and-take of politics but it is in keeping with sectarian religious doctrine. |
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Mohammed was concerned that rumors and reports of sectarian killings would become a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Every night somewhere in Belfast we see sectarian attacks and every morning the removal vans arrive to take another family away to another location. |
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Socialist politics are the only way to break down sectarian divisions. |
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Well first of all I don't think of religion at all in sectarian terms. |
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Random sectarian killings slowed and more IRA men were bumped off. |
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Their focus has been on Kashmir or on domestic sectarian violence. |
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The violence has fueled the sectarian tensions between Shiites and Sunnis. |
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These include biblical, apocryphal, sectarian, and legal writings. |
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Thirdly, and despite all the religious apologetics that I mentioned in the beginning, the humanitarian relief effort I think has been remarkably free of sectarian division. |
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The other thing of course is the riots and sectarian violence. |
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Further allegations of anti-Catholicism from prominent figures including Cardinal Logue aroused sectarian feelings which led to jeering and hissing on 8 May. |
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What was his great-grandson doing, then, 62 years later, messing around in the sectarian dirt yard? |
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There were vicious sectarian elements to the loyalist riots. |
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Many are ill-equipped and overworked and are forced to deal with problems like sectarian riots and various separatist movements. |
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They are also likely to stoke the kind of sectarian mistrust from which ISIS draws its strength. |
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The self-declared caliphate is targeting its leniency, such as it is, along strictly sectarian lines. |
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Tribal, sectarian and territorial conflicts made it a constantly turbulent place, despite the hammer of Ottoman rule. |
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If he gets his way, U.S. drones may soon be providing air cover to his sectarian armies in Mosul and tikrit. |
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The historic election sheared off a thin facade of wartime national unity and reinforced ethnic and sectarian tensions that have plagued the country for centuries. |
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If only they could show the same resolve when it comes to preventing the anti-social behaviour of sectarian marches and bigoted football fans singing. |
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Not since the Saudi and Wahhabi sack of Najaf and Kerbala in 1806 has sectarian violence in the Middle East been this extreme. |
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As charming as he was ruthless and fueled by sectarian hate, Mehsud preyed on military forces and civilians alike. |
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As it was frequently mentioned in Buddhist sutras, the practice of contemplating on a decaying corpse was adopted widely by monks regardless of their sectarian affiliations. |
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Soft corals, upside-down fish, barracuda, sweetlips, blue-spotted rays, grouper, lionfish, shrimps and sand-eels have each staked out their own sectarian neighbourhoods. |
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At the end, though, sectarian idiocy gave way to mass jubilation. |
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Unlike other countries where sectarian conflicts have flared among members of different religious groups, religious comity in the country is enviable. |
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It is clearly a plan on the part of outsiders to come in this country and spark civil war, create sectarian violence and try to expose fissures in the society. |
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Such homogeneity works to neutralise sectarian differences in the political arena while providing the framework for the plurality of opinion and political platforms. |
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These religious schools still preach an insidious doctrine that foments the sectarian violence that is increasingly a threat to the stability of Pakistan. |
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The Court reasoned that since money is fungible, government funding for secular purposes could be used by religious organizations for sectarian ends. |
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There is growing evidence that what central control of them existed has now disappeared and we are back to local fiefdoms doing their own sectarian things. |
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Monday's troubles have further exacerbated the sectarian divide. |
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Both have been involved in sectarian murders and ethnic cleansing. |
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Sectarian tensions had already been running high, and the abductions threaten to provoke armed conflict. |
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Sectarian conflict is the deliberate consequence of foreign intervention. |
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Sectarian strife, banditry, theft and moral corruption have been nibbling at the soul of our country for quite some time now. |
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Sectarian organizations with party lines and hierarchical, anti-democratic structures disrupt attempts to move forward collectively. |
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On the other hand, Pakistan's relations with Iran have been strained at times due to sectarian tensions. |
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Salem said that with the decline of nationalism, classicism and partyism, sectarian movements had gained strength in the Arab world. |
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For all the fierce sectarian tendencies of the diehards, fandom is only one part of their lives. |
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Flags in Northern Ireland are controversial, their symbolism reflecting underlying sectarian and political differences. |
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Some will always view him a sectarian hatemonger who stoked the flames of Troubles for decades. |
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Neither Liverpool nor Everton have a sectarian affiliation and many families are split in support of the clubs. |
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From the 1980s the UK government passed several acts that had a provision concerning sectarian violence. |
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The Core Committee observed that this growth in sectarian killings was clearly a part of proxy wars being fought on Pakistani soil. |
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Similarly, although political violence is greatly reduced, sectarian animosity has not disappeared. |
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Both sectarian religious and public languages are irreplaceably important for religious communities in our globalized world. |
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The ceasefire notwithstanding, sectarian killings actually escalated in 1975, along with internal feuding between rival paramilitary groups. |
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Prior to the 2000s financial crisis, ongoing sectarian violence and its economic aftermath was another major factor for immigration. |
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The religious struggles of the 17th century left a deep sectarian division in Ireland. |
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After the early 1920s, there were occasional incidents of sectarian unrest in Northern Ireland. |
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We were discussing solutions to the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias. |
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It also had an ethnic or sectarian dimension, although it was not a religious conflict. |
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Al Madrasi provided divisive sectarian support to the organization as is consistent with the Shirazi movement. |
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Police officers in riot gear moved into the area when sectarian clashes broke out between rival mobs. |
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With no security to speak of outside the heavily fortified Green Zone, Baghdad's neighborhoods are Balkanizing along sectarian lines. |
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But don't expect some rabble-rousing sectarian demagoguery from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. |
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After the Iranian Revolution, discrimination took on a sectarian flavor. |
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Some organizations have promoted 'Northern Irish' identity as a way of overcoming sectarian division. |
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It is that every sectarian is more sectarian in his unsectarianism than he is in his sect. |
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Sectarian hotheads and saboteurs certainly still lurk in the shadows. |
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Between 1999 and 2002, Ambon was at the centre of sectarian conflict across the Maluku Islands. |
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This is not just heavy rock or bubble-gum pop, but sectarian music, singing about wars and praising murders. |
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But perhaps the most intractable challenge of all is bridging the sectarian rift between the country's Shiite and Sunni citizens. |
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A senior Shi'ite cleric has described a US report on religious freedom in Bahrain as an attempt to divide the country along sectarian lines. |
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Tidore was largely spared from the sectarian conflict of 1999 across the Maluku Islands. |
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Steps taken to eradicate the sectarian element within the support have been successful. |
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The ministry of Jesus, according to the account of the Gospels, falls into a pattern of sectarian preachers with devoted disciples. |
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After the destruction of the Second Temple Judaism lost much of its sectarian nature. |
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An element of Northern Ireland's support was once perceived by some to be sectarian. |
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The police and courts are taking action, however, as Rangers fans are being charged, convicted and jailed for sectarian behaviour. |
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Sectarian strife now empowers the civil wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen and Al Qaedaism flourishes in the chaos. |
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In March 2008, UEFA investigated Celtic fans for alleged sectarian singing at a match against Barcelona. |
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From the 1980s the UK government passed several acts that had provisions concerning sectarian violence. |
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The First Minister has said he does not believe waving Union Flags and Irish tricolours at matches is sectarian. |
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The Restoration moderated most of the more strident sectarian writing, but radicalism persisted after the Restoration. |
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During renewed sectarian unrest in Rakhine State in 2012, Bangladesh closed its borders amid fears of a third major exodus from Myanmar. |
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The bitter rivalry between Celtic and Rangers in Glasgow, known as the Old Firm, is known worldwide for its sectarian divide. |
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As of 2016 In 2012, Bangladesh denied entry to further refugees after another spate of sectarian riots broke out in Rakhine State. |
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Although relations among different religious and ethnic groups are largely harmonious, sectarian discontent and violence have persisted. |
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Still he ended up neither an anti-cultural sectarian nor a religiously privatized denominationalist. |
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However, many unionists in Scotland shy away from connections to unionism in Ireland in order not to endorse any side of a largely sectarian conflict. |
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The fall of Baghdad saw the outbreak of regional, sectarian violence throughout the country, as Iraqi tribes and cities began to fight each other over old grudges. |
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The various sectarian militias and Kurdish pershmerga will be three sheets to the wind and bolstered by the training, weapons and successes they have inherited. |
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However, sectarian chanting by supporters has continued to incur criticism and sanctions upon the club as well as convictions against individuals identified. |
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According to a statement, PTI's Core Committee observed that this growth in sectarian killings is clearly a part of proxy wars being fought on Pakistani soil. |
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The degree to which Tertullian's increasingly sectarian attitudes were attributable to Montanism remains speculative, even when it is worth noting and certainly plausible. |
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However, an in-depth analysis has shown that political divisions, sectarian introjections and animosities have not been attenuated or tempered by the electoral system. |
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He also termed the killing of ulema in Karachi as a bid to fuel hatred and violence in Karachi among society, and a nefariously dangerous bid to incite sectarian violence. |
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Madani also spoke out against the concept of Takfir and inter-Muslim sectarian infighting, and said that the OIC intends to hold workshops to address these problems. |
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Raisani lashed out at those who have particularly picked on Balochistan as the strife-ridden province, riven by insurgency and sectarian violence. |
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After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the rise of sectarian tensions in the Middle East translated in Syria into rumours of a 'Shiitisation' of the country. |
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I wouldn't want my sister to marry a Communist, and force me to maldigest my Sunday morning bagel arguing dialectics with a sectarian brother-in-law. |
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Shi'ites are considered apostates by Sunni militants, whose resurgence is blamed by the government partly on the impact of the increasingly sectarian war in neighboring Syria. |
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Sectarian violence began on Thursday night, emanating from a bonfire in the Divis Street area, a Catholic-dominated part of Belfast. |
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Sectarian tensions can still be very real, though perhaps diminished compared with past decades. |
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Instead they unpack the multiplicity of inequalities, struggles and co-optations with close attention to existing gender, class, ethnic and sectarian differences. |
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The association between football and displays of sectarian behaviour by some fans has been a source of embarrassment and concern to the management of certain clubs. |
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Widely unnoticed, Iraqi Sunni and Shia centralists have managed in the last couple of months to form a united parliamentary platform that leaves sectarian tensions behind. |
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Most of the 18th century saw a calming of sectarian tensions in Ulster. |
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A SECTARIAN thug convicted of sending letter bombs to Neil Lennon has landed a plum job behind bars. |
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Following the death of Cromwell and the end of the Protectorate, the Stuarts returned to the throne thereby ending the sectarian divisions relating to parliament. |
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Indonesia has ended the state of civil emergency in North Maluku Province in the eastern Maluku Islands that was imposed in 2000 due to sectarian violence in the area. |
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Despite major internal political, social and sectarian divisions during the National Revolution, Indonesians, on the whole, found unity in their fight for independence. |
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The SDLP has insisted it will not enter a nakedly sectarian arrangement. |
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At a friendly match in Dublin in 2011 against Scotland, the IFA carried out an inquiry following an incident in which a minority number of drunken fans sang sectarian songs. |
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For Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, declaring a caliphate was a premature step that was bound to exacerbate the sectarian civil war in the heart of the Arab world. |
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Historians reject his interpretations, with some accusing him of creating a sectarian narrative in which Ulster Protestants have a prior to claim to Ireland. |
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Several Shias were then killed and dozens of shops outside the seminary were set on fire in the latest incidence of spiralling sectarian violence in the region. |
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The mosque, visited by all Muslims, has ironically become one of the most symbolic battlegrounds of the increasingly sectarian fault line between Sunnis and Shi'as. |
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Hizbollah Secretary General, Sheikh Hassan Nasserallah, called on some Lebanese to rationalize, be calm, keeping their discourse a political and not a sectarian one. |
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However, several Saudi Shiite figures confirmed to Al Arabiya that the attack did not target Shiites in particular, but to promote sectarian tensions in the country. |
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In the past CAIR has condemned similar attacks on houses of worship, including anti-Christian and sectarian violence in Pakistan, Iraq, Malaysia, and other countries. |
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