Word: sectarian
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...Arabs are very concerned that the collapse of Saddam's iron-fisted, centralized order will lead to the fragmentation of Iraq along sectarian lines. They fear that the power vacuum created by the end of 24 years of Saddam's absolute rule will ignite an orgy of sectarian struggles and vendetta killings among Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. They worry that this, in turn, will prompt the intervention of Turkish and Iranian military forces seeking the protection of their respective interests. The dread is that America's war will turn Iraq into "another Palestine," a consuming crisis that feeds Middle East...
...unsettling place at the best of times. Five bodies left sprawled on the road by a checkpoint on March 4 has made it even more so. Among the dead was Abullah Qasre, a leading figure in a local militant Islamic group known as Komal, one of the plethora of sectarian factions that riddle Kurdish politics. Komal, however, has come to be particularly important in recent months in light of the bloody war raging between ruling parties of Iraqi Kurdistan and Islamist groups linked with al-Qaeda, such as Ansar al-Islam. The local government had entered into a covert dialogue...
...they are against the war but are in no mood to be politically demonstrative about it," says Columbia University sociology and journalism professor Todd Gitlin, a 1960s student-protest leader. "And so you can't simply argue that the U.S. poisons everything it touches. The left-wing sectarian style is an impediment to moving it to a larger public...
...rest on the next generation. Roald's three teenage children mix comfortably with both Muslims and non-Muslims. "They have the religious way of Islam and the Norwegian view of society, which means I give them space and freedom." It surprises some non-Muslims that these home truths transcend sectarian lines, she says. "None of us want our children to be druggies. Most don't want our girls sleeping with boys when they are 15." We just have to lift our own veils - of stereotype and preconception - to see. - By JEFF...
...style attack against U.S. naval vessels making port calls. JI hooked up with the MILF and other regional militant groups, and with al-Qaeda funding established its own franchises, such as Laskar Jundullah headed by Agus Dwikarna, now in jail in Manila after being caught with explosives, to wage sectarian conflicts in Indonesia's Sulawesi and Maluku regions. But as increasing numbers of JI personnel are picked up, the group, like its patron al-Qaeda, is changing strategies. Last week the Canadian and Australian embassies in Manila received explicit and credible threats of terrorist attacks. Though not soft targets, these...