The police said the attack was sectarian and a "serious attempt to kill or injure someone".
The BBC's correspondent in Cairo, Heba Saleh, says the Egyptian authorities have always argued that a party based on religion would deepen sectarian divisions in a country with a sizeable Christian minority.
Judgement in the trial of a convicted loyalist killer, for involvement in the sectarian murder of a teenage girl nearly 40 years ago, has been reserved.
The perpetrators "want to trigger a sectarian war in Afghanistan, " said parliament member Mohammad Mohaqiq, a former warlord and one of the Shiite community's most influential leaders.
Lebanon remains a tinderbox of sectarian rivalries, making regime change a complex business.
He and his family recently fled their home in Baghdad after receiving a sectarian threat letter.
Sectarian clashes, a dismal feature of Egyptian life for more than a decade, have risen alarmingly.
Mr Davutoglu says Mr Maliki's actions could unleash a sectarian war in the region.
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Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Saud Al Faisal, said the Syrian regime is pushing for a sectarian crisis.
But there has been confusion of exactly what would constitute a sectarian offence.
The Royal Ulster Constabulary stuck to its first theory of a sectarian motive.
So there is even a fear of this turning into a sectarian struggle.
At that game 16 people were arrested within the grounds of Celtic Park for alleged offences of a sectarian nature.
If Syria is on the verge of a sectarian abyss, the incentive to intervene militarily would likely be even weaker.
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But the military's definition of what constitutes a sectarian murder is narrow.
"They want to establish a sectarian-based entity in the region, " he said.
She denies that her country is being engulfed by a sectarian war.
Mr Erdogan's secular critics echo Mr Assad's claims that he is playing a sectarian card by propping up Islamists across the Middle East.
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She says her group delivers aid and reach out to the different communities in an effort to keep Syrian society united against a sectarian rift.
Confusion has also surrounded exactly what would constitute a sectarian offence.
Given that the Shia majority appears to have been the target in many of the latest attacks, it is hard to rule out a sectarian motive.
The 59-year-old senior advocate was vice-chairman of Rangers but resigned from the Glasgow club's board in 1999 after being filmed singing sectarian songs at a supporters' event.
But the story remained off the front pages, still considered a local piece about an Egyptian in America fueling a sectarian crisis here, not about how the West treats Islam.
The prosecution said it was not the first time Rodgers had been in court charged with murder as, in 1975, he was convicted of committing a sectarian murder the year before.
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The January draft of the Stormont community relations paper included ideas for, amongst other things, anti-sectarian classes, a buddy scheme for nursery and primary school children and an annual cultural awareness day.
The general framework for today's meeting is that Iraq's primarily Shiite Arab leaders will try to convince their Sunni Arab neighbors that they are a national unity government and not a sectarian one.
Highlights of the week include an art installation at a sectarian interface in north Belfast and an Understanding the Past centenaries event looking back at the turbulent period leading up to the partition of Ireland.
Whereas the United States and European governments have castigated the Syrian government for shooting protesters, virtually all Arab governments in the vicinity have been silent, fearing a sectarian spillover if the strife were to worsen and spread.
Lebanon, albeit under a sectarian quota system, has converted people's street power into parliamentary elections that have drastically reduced the influence of Syria, whose army has withdrawn and whose own regime is under pressure to reform or go.
Thus we should not allow the dramatic power of the most visible narrative, the struggle between oppressed and oppressor, to drown out the sad reality of another less noble story line -- namely that this is still, at least for now, a sectarian conflict.
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