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

True, sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have escalated since the fall of Saddam.

The country is already divided by sectarian tensions following the popular uprising in 2011, when people called for more political reforms.

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

This, according to Riemer, is supposed to bring a reduction in tensions and an increase in communications across the sectarian and religious divides in Lebanon.

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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Syria s Sectarian Stalemate

They say that we are all sectarian and (want) to make sectarian(ism)

I am particularly concerned by the increasingly sectarian nature of the violence, especially in ethnically mixed areas, and the risk of escalation of tensions both between and within communities.

These issues are not sectarian.

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

Some 400,000 refugees many of them Sunni Muslims, including fugitive rebels have poured over the border from Syria, exacerbating sectarian tensions and threatening to disrupt Lebanon s delicate social and political balance.

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Tensions mounted.

These tensions further receded in the tide of the Islamization created by the Iranian revolution, for in its wake Arabs sectarian identity as Sunni was pushed further into the background as a generalized Islamic assertiveness appeared.

The root causes are political, sectarian, and personal.

The issues were, of course, ethnic sectarian violence.

Local tensions become national and national disruptions spill over into international tensions.

They try to put an emphasis on sectarian issues.

Would you like to see civil war, sectarian killing?

Indeed, Lebanon, following the collapse of Najib Mikati s government, is already on the brink of civil war, as direct intervention in Syria by Hezbollah, Iran s Lebanese proxy, to prevent Assad s overthrow has exacerbated the country s own longstanding sectarian tensions.

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

The new Iraqi army can hardly be called non sectarian.

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.

Trade tensions continue to mount.

Tensions are on the rise.

Reported tensions in eastern Sudan.

Continued tensions impede humanitarian access.

(c) Nationalistic ethnic confessional tensions

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

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?

Moreover, currency tensions will remain high.

Indeed, it is already creating tensions.

And regional tensions are running high.

Tensions will arise from such interactions.

We're constantly creating tensions and conflicts.

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

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

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

National unity was harmed by the reappearance of centrifugal and sectarian movements.

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.

However Khaled is worried that people in the street might not be really critical to the draft as the activists on Twitter are. MohHKamel Would it be difficult to get people to revolt again after the last 9 months? No security, sectarian tensions, shaky economy?