Sectarian
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Moreover, in Modi’s India, political loyalties are often purchased, and institutions are subverted to serve a narrow
sectarian
agenda.
None of Iraq’s neighbors, including Iran, would benefit from
sectarian
conflict that grows into a regional war.
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.
Those who argue that the surge (and its close companion, new and improved “counterinsurgency”) overcame Iraq’s
sectarian
fault line suggest that Iraq’s ongoing political problems are the result of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s poor governance.
In fact, the Middle East – buffeted by the Iraq War, the Arab Spring, and the
sectarian
showdown in Syria – is unsure where to go next: liberal democracy and the rule of law, or Islamist rule?
Sectarian
differences within Syria are profound, and there is little international confidence in either the cohesion or the democratic and human-rights credentials of the opposition.
The only monarchical regime that was seriously challenged during the Arab Spring was the Sunni ruling family in Shia-majority Bahrain, where precisely this
sectarian
divide seems to have been the crucial ingredient in the uprising, which was then brutally suppressed with Saudi military help.
America’s real mistake was failing to engage with all sides, including Assad and the Sunni opposition, which it deemed
sectarian.
And, given ISIS’s jihadi ideology, there is limited scope for “Sunni outreach” – the supposed panacea for all that ails Iraq’s
sectarian
political culture.
By and large, Iraqi political parties are
sectarian
organizations.
In a country where political identity is – at least for the time being – tied to
sectarian
identity, majority rule thus means Shia rule.
What is happening today in Iraq is part of a broader pattern of
sectarian
violence across the region.
America and the West need a policy that addresses the
sectarian
struggle head-on – not just in Iraq but throughout the region.
Can using US funding to reopen Iraqi state-owned enterprises get young men to abandon the insurgency and
sectarian
militias?
The root causes are political, sectarian, and personal.
They also identify good officers and those who are corrupt or participating in death squads or
sectarian
militias.
Meanwhile, in Syria, “the people” rose up, were fired upon, took up arms, were manipulated, and began a cycle of
sectarian
killing and revenge that can only fracture them further.
As state authority weakens, tribal and
sectarian
allegiances strengthen.
With Iraq in flames, the United States-led invasion and occupation is widely blamed for unwittingly introducing a
sectarian
concept of identity in the country.
When
sectarian
or ethnic minorities have ruled countries – for example, the Sunnis of Iraq – they typically have a strong interest in downplaying sectarianism or ethnicity.
There is competition among Shia parties and among Sunni parties; but few voters cross the
sectarian
line – a grim reality that is unlikely to change for years to come.
Yemen, too, is beset by tribal feuding and a
sectarian
divide that pose challenges to statehood.
Both sides are adamant: the opposition is determined to bring down a regime that it views as illegitimate, sectarian, corrupt, tyrannical, and stained with blood, while the regime’s hard-line core believes that by persevering it will ultimately silence the opposition, whereas any concession would jeopardize its very existence.
On the contrary, it would remove the Taliban’s unifying element and unleash developments – a vicious power struggle in Afghanistan along
sectarian
and ethnic lines – whose significance would be largely internal or regional.
In Bangladesh, for example, more than 300,000 child refugees have been forced out of their homes as a consequence of
sectarian
violence in neighboring Myanmar.
This marks a return to a pre-Westphalian world of linguistic, religious, and
sectarian
solidarity, of the sort Czarist Russia practiced when it regarded itself as the protector of all Slavs.
Instead, armies, tribes,
sectarian
groups, and religious parties quickly came to the fore.
The Middle East’s new autocrats are consolidating power with divide-and-rule tactics that have polarized citizens along
sectarian
and identity lines.
Sectarian
fighting poisoned relations between Sunnis and Shia throughout the region.
In October 2006, for example, Mecca was used to host talks among Iraq’s warring
sectarian
factions.
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