Ireland's entry into the EU helped to end the worst of Northern Ireland's sectarian war.
Mr Davutoglu says Mr Maliki's actions could unleash a sectarian war in the region.
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It has been a spark for this kind of a new sectarian war and conflict that produces instability in the whole region.
She denies that her country is being engulfed by a sectarian war.
The dark forces of civil conflict and sectarian war will have to be averted, and difficult political and economic concerns will have to be addressed.
People close to Hezbollah said the group was "exercising maximum restraint" to avoid being dragged into sectarian war in Lebanon and worse, a Shiite-on-Shiite fight.
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.
Once again, Iraqis are showing their determination to unify Iraq and build its future and that those impulses are far stronger than those who want Iraq to descend into sectarian war and terror.
But the fighting has prompted fears among Iraqi leaders and international powers that the tensions between Sunnis and Shiites could escalate and bring a return of the full-blown sectarian war that raged last decade.
His description of the remarkable decline of Catholic Ireland over the past decade is matched only by his sympathetic, though critical, account of the toll that sectarian war in the north has taken on the cross-border Church of Ireland.
Absent a game changer that will tip the balance in favor of one side or the other, the crisis in Syria will become a full-blown sectarian war pitting Sunnis against Alawites, which will likely spill over into the neighboring countries of Iraq and Lebanon.
And there's lots of rhetoric from Republicans and Democrats - the Republicans, basically, accusing the Democrats of wanting to cut and run from a fight with terrorists, while the Democrats accuse the Republicans of allowing the nation to be pulled into an extended sectarian war among Iraqi factions.
"We have succeeded in preventing Iraq from going into sectarian war -- which threatened our dear Iraq -- and I am fully confident that national reconciliation is our only way that takes Iraq into safety in spite of all the destabilizing actions by local and international groups, " said Nuri al-Maliki, who addressed the country's parliament, the Council of Representatives.
Bush also drew a picture of his war-planning options amid a wave of sectarian and insurgent violence, continued casualties of U.S. forces and an Iraqi government that the report said is struggling to reconcile the fractious nation's many cultural differences.
Lebanon -- whose sectarian equation mirrors that in Syria -- cannot help but be dragged into the war next door.
Mr. GOCSHEL: They do feel that Hezbollah's unchecked power and this additional strength they have acquired from this war could be used against their communities, and this is all very typical of sectarian feelings in the country.
Also at risk from the war next door could be Albania's status as an oasis of religious tolerance in a sea of sectarian hatred.
Though Iraq has grown safer in the last six years, sectarian violence and instability still grip the country 10 years after the start of the U.S.-led war.
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