One god, many wars: religious dimensions of armed conflict in the middle east and north africa9/26/2023 ![]() There are also reports of a rising tide of "anti-Shi'a sectarianism" in Malaysia and occasional references to the long-term low-level "sectarian insurgency" in southern Thailand.Īcross this variegated landscape, inter- and intra-sectarian violence has taken many forms - Sunni vs Shi'a Muslim, Muslim vs Christian, Buddhist vs Muslim - and has claimed far too many victims on all sides. Meanwhile, headlines have warned that the "sectarian divide" in Pakistan is widening and intensifying. ![]() ![]() With increasing frequency, media accounts of the civil war in Syria describe it in sectarian terms and report that the violence there has inflamed "sectarian tension" throughout the Gulf and beyond. Nor is Iraq or, for that matter, the Middle East as a whole, the only locus of conflict depicted as being sectarian in nature, as the disturbing events in Burma/Myanmar, as well as in the Central African Repubic (CAR) and Nigeria clearly illustrate. Sectarian-based conflicts - or at any rate, spasms of intercommunal violence characterized as such - are certainly not new.
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