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Despite all that happened, I think we can still make a new beginning and forget the past if the new government makes a genuine good beginning by forming a Cabinet away from sectarian interests and the militias.

Wael Khamis

But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian conflict at home.

Abdel Bari Atwan

We can all see the ethnic and sectarian identities taking root and growing, with the real potential for dismemberment that this direction implies.

Phebe Marr

How do we know it is really an Iraqi Army rather than a sectarian Army? If it is not an Iraqi army, that really is going to put a damper on the notion of our drawing down forces.

Andrew Bacevich

It will incite some bitter feelings within the Shiite communities and it will also instigate some sectarian frictions between Sunni and Shiite.

Saad Jawad Qindeel

It still does not fundamentally alter the deteriorating security situation in the country, given the rise in sectarian violence.

Ted Carpenter

So far we've had no level-headed politicians, only ones out for personal sectarian gain.

Joost Hiltermann

Last week's violence was not about deprivation - it was about a failure to force a sectarian Orange march through a Catholic area.

Alex Maskey

It will send a strong message that the kingdom is not acting out of sectarian interests, but in the interests of Iraq and the region at large.

Nawaf Obaid

Is it going to resolve the sectarian killings? No. Is it going to end the insurgency? No.

Jeffrey White

Iraq is at a very precarious point now and security is continuously deteriorating. Until security is stabilized people will continue to be displaced due to sectarian violence.

Dana Graber

Who created the sectarian attitude in Iraq? The occupation, ... We never heard of this before in our history. But it's good that Condoleezza Rice realizes sectarianism is not good for Iraq. All we want from them is fair and clean elections next month.

Salih Mutlaq

In the current environment people will see things in a sectarian light... and it may well lead to further expansion of growing sectarian animosities.

Joost Hiltermann

Until now, there has obviously only been an executive. And we really see that there is a chance to pull together a lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds, perhaps from different factions in the past, from different sectarian groups, getting some women in there obviously and bringing them all together to give them a voice on the future direction of Afghanistan.

Joanna Nathan

It's a sectarian thing. It's an undeclared small civil war.

Mahmud Othman

Iraqi forces will be defensive in nature, composed of volunteers only. The military will serve their people without religious or sectarian or tribal or political discrimination.

Ali Allawi

The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.

John C. Danforth

Evolution Sunday?represents a new kind of grassroots effort by members of the Christian leadership in America to reclaim Christianity from those using it for their narrow sectarian advantage.

Michael Zimmerman

This is a significant attack on science. They really are advancing a sectarian religious view. They're treading on constitutional grounds.

Jack Krebs

Since sectarian war is already underway between Sunni Arabs and Shiites in Baghdad and some other parts of the country, it is hard to see how a centralized Iraq run by Shiites could serve the interests of its Sunni population.

Peter Galbraith

We hoped this day would never come. We believe that the Arabs, whether Sunni or Shi'ite, are one. We totally reject any attempt to stir up sectarian issues to divide Iraq.

Saleh Al mutlak

The thing to remember here and what's sort of been lost is that prayer in the legislature has not been prohibited by the court. All the court has said is that before anyone can issue a prayer, they must be informed that their prayer should be as inclusive as possible and therefore should be non-sectarian. That's all the court's order holds.

Ken Falk

You can't have someone who is regarded as sectarian as the minister of interior.

Zalmay Khalilzad