Syria s Sectarian Stalemate

The authorities explained that the information collected by the State issued, for example, in the form of pamphlets for the public combined information from sects and sectarian groups and information on the groups.

61. As a whole, the problems of sects and sectarian groups involve the competence of the Federal Government, the Länder and the communes, which cooperate closely.

The issues were, of course, ethnic sectarian violence.

Would you like to see civil war, sectarian killing?

Sectarian groups such as the Sipah e Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), a militant Sunni organization, and the Tehrik e Jafria Pakistan (TJP) have also been responsible for acts of violence in Karachi.

56. The federal and Land authorities explained that they had been confronted since the mid 1970s with the phenomenon of what are known as sects of young people and sectarian groups.

The third front involves assorted petty particularisms parties representing the sectarian interests of specific castes, sub regions, or linguistic groups. The danger is that such groups could accentuate the divisions of a fractious society, rather than pull everyone together in the collective national interest.

Public instability and insecurity is compounded by an increase in sectarian strife.

Sunni ministers who had been boycotting the government since last year have returned to their posts. Thus, Iraq is seeing both escalating intra sectarian violence and cautious steps towards inter sectarian alliances.

For some, it will lead to anger, religious and sectarian violence and terrorism.

All the while, Assad was describing the violence as the product of terrorists and Sunni extremists seeking dominion over minority Alawites, Druze, Kurds, Christians, and other groups. He worked assiduously to fan the flames of sectarian civil war, succeeding to the extent that now the chief reason for not intervening to stop the killing is the impossibility of doing so effectively in an environment of sectarian violence.

Otherwise, rising sectarian tensions and violence hold the potential for escalation into serious civil strife.

Iraq Combating terrorism requires combating all extremist ideologies that promote religious, sectarian, or ethnic hatred.

They would bring prosperity, security, overcome sectarian violence, ensure that states would never again harbor terrorists.

But, as we have seen elsewhere in the region, it will prove far more difficult to put something benign and effective in its place. Civil war along sectarian lines could well predominate, or fighting between the various anti Assad opposition groups could erupt.

The Government of Rwanda was laying the foundations for a homogenous, united, coherent and non sectarian society.

Last October, amid an unnecessary escalation of sectarian violence, state owned television featured a hospitalized Egyptian soldier screaming, The Copts killed my colleague! The systematic demonization of the Tahririst groups, and the violent escalation that followed in November and December, served the same purpose.

Syria s internal conflict has now become a Sunni Shia sectarian war that is spreading across the region. The Sunni clerics who have just declared a jihad against the Iranian regime, Hezbollah, and its sectarian allies are the voice of millions across the Muslim world.

57. To draw attention to the potential dangers, both for the individual and for society, the Federal Government has launched a large scale information and education campaign designed to increase public awareness and stimulate a critical discussion on what the sects and sectarian groups have to offer.

On matters of political controversy between nations, of party politics and of sectarian religion, SI maintains a position of strict neutrality.

In the United States of America, neofascist organizations also were abundant, which disseminated their racist, xenophobic and sectarian propaganda throughout the media.

I am concerned about the potential for escalation of inter and intra communal tensions into ethnic or sectarian strife and the regional ramifications thereof.

The Medical Women apos s International Association (MWIA) is a non political, non sectarian, non profit association representing women doctors from all five continents.

Significant measures must be taken, including the active involvement of neutral international agencies and observers to keep the government in check and ensure that voters can have their say. We are hopeful that Iraqis, who have had their fill of sectarian political parties, will be allowed freely to choose candidates who embrace a non sectarian and non racist agenda.

With Shia dominated Iran providing weapons, money, troops, and training for Assad s forces, the conflict s sectarian dimension has taken on greater significance. Indeed, government forces have devolved into a sectarian army, motivated by the fear that, if the largely Sunni rebels are victorious, they will annihilate the Shia affiliated Alawite minority that has ruled Syria for decades.

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It is non political and non sectarian, and operates in more than 60 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Most of them were instrumental and musical groups (4,442), dance groups (2,934) and theatre groups (2,144).

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Regardless of religious and sectarian backgrounds, it is in the interest of every Iraqi to contribute to forging a broad political consensus on the way forward.

AMDA (the Association of Medical Doctors of Asia) is a non governmental, non profit and non sectarian organization promoting health and welfare for people in need.

The computer schools are established in association with existing communities such as Catholic groups, women s groups and environmental groups.

Mr. Joko is also facing pressure from lingering sectarian tensions in Indonesia, where members of the Muslim majority have embraced a more conservative form of the faith.

We also call for the respect of religious, ethnic and sectarian diversity in the framework of free democratic choice, without prejudice to the rights of its minorities.

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