Lebanese Sunnis bitter after Hezbollah triumph

Sunni Muslims are bitter and fearful after Shiite Hezbollah's triumph in Beirut, watching their backs on the streets and some even moving to safer spots.

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Shopowners Flee Mixed Baghdad Areas

Shiite taxi driver Aly Kaabi used to fear for his life each time his Mercedes needed a spare part. The place to seek replacements was a Sunni-dominated Baghdad neighborhood ruled at the time by militants from al-Qaida in Iraq.

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Muslims, Christians Clash in Egypt

Muslims and Coptic Christians clashed after Friday prayers over a land dispute, leaving 20 injured, security officials said.

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Iraqi Sects Are Locked in Power Struggle

At an intersection in the Sadiyah section of the capital, near the tip of the thumb formed by a sharp bend in the Tigris River, stands a stark example of what underlies Iraq's sectarian war and why any peaceful outcome will not be determined by U.S. combat power.

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Iraqi Officials Say Crackdown Working

The Baghdad security operation has been under way less than three weeks, but it has already registered a success: a sharp drop in the number of bullet-riddled bodies found in the streets — victims of sectarian death squads.

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Sectarian Slurs on the Rise in Baghdad

Shiite doctor Aqeel Abdul Hussein has lived in a Sunni neighborhood for 15 years. Now he's feeling like an outcast after someone left a poster on his door a month ago calling him a "rafida" — a rejectionist.

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Sectarian TV Main Source of News in Iraq

A television station flashes a headline announcing that "terrorist militias" stormed into a Sunni family home in Basra, killing a husband in front of his wife and children.

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Sectarian Divides Change Baghdad's Image

Imad Talib lived in a Shiite-dominated district for many years until threats by Shiite militiamen forced the Sunni Arab to move across town. Ahmed Khazim left a mostly Sunni suburb for Sadr City, where his Shiite sect forms the majority.

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Nigerian Christians Burn Muslim Corpses

Christians in this southern Nigerian city burned Muslim corpses and defaced wrecked mosques Thursday after days of sectarian strife that has killed more than 120 people across the country.

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KARACHI: A former leader of the outlawed Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan who suffered bullet wounds in a late Thursday night ambush, which left another prominent leader dead, passed away at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in the early hours of Saturday.

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Once upon a time, charity boxes of so-called Islamic welfare organisations were a ubiquitous sight at shops in our cities. These boxes were claimed to have been put there by the shopkeepers and Islamic welfare groups to raise money for the building of mosques and madressahs.

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I would suggest reading Ilyas Khan's archive. He's got some good insights and reports into the country's history. By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Islamabad

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It was the last Friday of Ramadhan. These Cretins just couldn't let peace be and continued with their sectarian onslaught. I hope the majority of Pakistanis finally realize Wahabi/Salafi/Deobandi or any other Sunni extremists are an internal threat.

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From the BBC article: Gunmen in north-west Pakistan have attacked a group of Shia students, killing at least four in a sectarian attack, officials and witnesses say.

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From the BBC article: A report by the Human Rights Watch pressure group has detailed what it says is systematic discrimination in Saudi Arabia against Shia Muslims.

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A minority Christian Pakistani victim recounts the attack against him and his family. All because of a rumor.

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A Catholic father-of-four kicked to death by sectarian thugs in the North was looking for his sons in case they were caught up in post-football match violence, neighbours claimed last night. Kevin McDaid (49), a community worker dedicated to bringing together both sides in his h …

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IRAQ is threatened by a new wave of sectarian violence as members of the "Sons of Iraq" – the Sunni Awakening militias that were paid by the US to fight Al-Qaeda – begin to rejoin the insurgency.

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Seraikis protest against Pak ethnic cleansing

A demonstration was staged in the town of Kot Addu in Muzzafargarh district in southern Punjab against the recent spate of sectarian violence, bomb blasts and suicide attacks in Dera Ghazi Khan, Bhakkar and Dera Ismail Khan.

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Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Position is a Disaster

As Barack Obama points out every time Iraq is raised, he has opposed the Iraq war since the beginning. While his unchanging opposition to the war makes for great speech material, it has little to do substantively with Iraq policy today.

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Ms Michelle McIlveen, an Irish politician, raised the issue of funding Irish language schools during ministerial question time at Stormont on Monday.

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Northern Ireland has so often been a source of negativity that it is well worth reminding ourselves that in 2007 it proved a source of huge good cheer.

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Jabber Sowadi's job says something about the depths to which Iraq has sunk.

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The US Senate approved Wednesday a Bosnia-style plan to divide Iraq on ethnic and religious lines, touted by backers as the sole hope of forging a federal state out of sectarian strife.

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When General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker spoke of success stories in Iraq during their congressional testimony, they largely focused on the situation in Anbar province where former Sunni insurgents are now fighting Al Qaeda alongside U.S. troops.

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Blaming the prime minister of Iraq, rather than the president of the United States, for the spectacular failure of American policy, is cynical politics, pure and simple.

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CHILDREN as young as three are set to receive anti-sectarianism lessons with the help of puppets and cartoons. The programme has proved successful in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in encouraging youngsters to respect racial, cultural and physical differences.

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BAGHDAD, June 8 -- The worst month of Lt. Col. Dale Kuehl's deployment in western Baghdad was finally drawing to a close.

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"The problem in Iraq is the American Army," Mr. Daini told a group of attentive American legislators gathered last week in the office of Representative Jim McDermott, an antiwar Democrat from Seattle.

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from the BBC: Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war. Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad.

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Lebanon Crisis Fails Mediation, Plays into Israeli Hands

By Nicola Nasser*

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RIGA, Latvia, Nov.

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The majority of Scotland's religious crime takes place in the west of Scotland with a third linked to football, new figures have shown. It also centres around Catholic and Protestant sectarianism and is fuelled by alcohol, the statistics revealed.

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Almaty, Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan's National Security Committee (KNB) secret police is preparing changes to the Anti-terrorism Law, "but these changes are not going to affect believers," Askar Amerkhanov, Deputy Chief of Staff of the KNB's Anti-terrorist Centre has told Forum 18 Ne …

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