But the price has been high in terms of Iraqi lives lost in sectarian fighting.

Civil war along sectarian lines could well predominate, or fighting between the various anti Assad opposition groups could erupt.

Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and others, now gripped by sectarian fighting, risk fragmenting into ethnic sub states, transforming a region whose political geography was drawn nearly a century ago.

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Thus, Iraq is seeing both escalating intra sectarian violence and cautious steps towards inter sectarian alliances.

At best, the overthrow of Saddam removed a threatening dictator, and substituted a tyranny of the majority for the tyranny of a minority. But the price has been high in terms of Iraqi lives lost in sectarian fighting.

The root causes are political, sectarian, and personal.

To believe that sectarian fighting started because of a foolish US decision, and ended because of a subsequent wise one, is to ignore the role of sectarianism in a country that straddles the Sunni and Shia worlds and the Turkic and Arab worlds.

Is it wise and advisable to wade into a sectarian civil war two thousand miles away? Just examine the trajectory of sectarian violence over the last decade.

In Lebanon, sectarian power sharing is enshrined in the constitution.

The new Iraqi army can hardly be called non sectarian.

Equally ominous, the banning of hundreds of candidates for alleged ties to the Baath Party signals a return to sectarian politics, which could reignite a sectarian civil war.

What are the possible ramifications for such a policy on sectarian violence in Pakistan? Is it likely to exacerbate and make more deadly sectarian cleavages or the opposite?

Who is the victim and who is the perpetrator of sectarianism? How does systematic sectarian oppression work in Bahrain? And why is the Bahrain uprising tainted as sectarian?

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But trying to ignite sectarian strife is more offensive than anything.

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.

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Many more are feared as violence among the main sectarian groups escalates.

Others were awash in sectarian speech loaded with excessive fear and hatred.

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.

In many ways, they began to see fighting big business as akin to fighting terrorists.

The war has pulverized Iraqi society, dissolving it into an ethno sectarian patchwork.

Such condemnations can only sharpen sectarian divisions within Saudi Arabia and the region.

Fighting won't settle anything.

Fighting won't settle anything.

Indeed, as in Iraq, Syria s sectarian strife looks increasingly like a jihadist religious war.

Hattar was charged with inciting sectarian strife and insulting Islam, according to the Guardian.

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To believe that sectarian fighting started because of a foolish US decision, and ended because of a subsequent wise one, is to ignore the role of sectarianism in a country that straddles the Sunni and Shia worlds and the Turkic and Arab worlds. These divisions, obscured by Saddam s totalitarianism, never went away.

Left to its fate, Syrian society began to disintegrate and reorganize on a sectarian basis.

Researcher at the University of Cambridge and author of Sectarian Gulf Toby Matthiesen expressed concern

The congress has approved billions of dollars of US taxpayers money to fund these sectarian militias who are directly responsible of the ethnic and sectarian cleansing that has been taking place in Iraq during the last 5 years.

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Sami was fighting for his life.

The US should be working to create a strong, unified government, rather than strengthening sectarian militias.

If that happens, the insurgency will be superseded by a much more dangerous sectarian civil war.