Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closer, as one of the two rival wings of the Irish Republican Army drew back from the brink of what had seemed an incipient civil war. In a dramatic policy announcement, the Marxist-leaning Official wing of the I.R.A. said that "in view of the growing danger of sectarian conflict," it was suspending "all military action" in Northern Ireland unless attacked by British troops or local Protestant forces...
...wound that Tipping suffered while walking down a Belfast street six weeks ago. Tipping's gang, the Shankhill Tartans, has hundreds of members, who spend much of their time lolling on street corners and shouting anti-Catholic slogans on Saturday afternoons. They were reared in an atmosphere of sectarian bitterness and bigotry, and their attitudes show it. "I hate them," Tipping says of the Catholics. "They're just murderers. They're all in the I.R.A., and if they're not they're sympathizers. If the army is not going to do anything to stop...
...Paisley, 46, became a member of the British Parliament 22 months ago. Since then he has transformed his image from that of a sectarian rabble-rouser to what many of his colleagues in Commons consider the authentic voice of Ulster. His warnings last week to Protestant extremists- - "Anarchy cannot be answered by more anarchy" won him widespread applause...
While more liberal Jews are willing to search for the common denominator of faith within a broader idea of Jewish peoplehood, the Orthodox are more demanding: faith must come first, peoplehood second. Indeed, for the strict est Orthodox, their rigidly sectarian faith actually separates them from other Jews. Even so, the basic Orthodox concept of Jewish identification is far healthier today than was expected just a few decades ago. Now it is burgeoning, partly because the melting pot is passe, but also partly because the Orthodox birth rate is unusually high...
...side, the killings immensely increased the influence of the I.R.A. terrorists, who now have more applicants than they can possibly train. Internment had confirmed the Catholics' worst fears about the Protestant-dominated Stormont government: that its ultimate answer to Catholic political and civil rights demands would be naked sectarian repression. No Unionist Prime Minister, they feel, can ever survive while ignoring the extremist Orangemen's call to "make the Croppies [Catholics] lie down." For Catholics, the Derry shootings have now added weight to the I.R.A.'s claim that the real enemy is the British government at Westminster...