Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting last week was not simply the result of sectarian rivalries. It was a show of force, designed to win a larger share of power in Lebanon's political patchwork, by the Druze, a small and esoteric sect with roots in Islam. Last month Walid Jumblatt, Druze chieftain and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, helped organize a National Salvation Front with the deliberate aim of opposing Gemayel. The front struck an alliance with Syria and demanded that Gemayel renounce the May 17 agreement according to which Israel would withdraw its troops if Lebanon agreed to security and political...
These events in the Holy City are only samples of a troubling increase in sectarian violence involving ultra-Orthodox Jews, many of them members of Israel's numerous Hasidic groups.* Ever since the founding of Israel in 1948, traditionalist Jews who cluster in the Mea Shearim or Geula neighborhoods of northern Jerusalem have often stoned passing automobiles on the Sabbath and otherwise vented their wrath on those who violate God's law. But the recent outbursts reflect a new militancy on the part of extremists and a fundamental change in the relations of the city's religious...
...East is bankrupt: people are not adequately fed, housed or provided for, Western capitalism seems equally out of breath, insensitive to the cost in human terms of successive crises. The future lies in a break from the constraints of ideology and the embrace of a new, non-sectarian system...
...properly understood and acted upon, could constitute, the hope for tomorrow. The world is increasingly interdependent, a bad thing if there is little cooperation among nations, a good thing if allies--and adversaries--can manage to get along. The key to cooperation lies in the rejection of the old sectarian world and the acceptance of the idea that our common problems have superseded ideology. Espousal of these new facts of life has been tortuously slow in coming. But with each passing day, it is clear that there are no alternatives...
...group said it would fund "educational" activities, but not those "designed to elicit support for religious ideologies [to] promote membership in sectarian groups...