* Iraq war unlocks deep Sectarian sentiments across the Middle East * Iran's 1979 revolution provokes power contest with Saudi Arabia * Videos posted on the Internet illustrate Shi'ite-Sunni savagery * ISIL says anti-Shi'ite brutality is a policy as it builds Caliphate * Religion is being deployed as a ****** to galvanise rival interests (Updates with ISIL declaring Islamic caliphate) By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT, June 29 (Reuters) - As jihadists storm through the Sunni heartlands of Iraq towards Baghdad, where a Shi'ite government they regard as heretic clings on, they have lifted the veil on deep sectarianism which has also stoked the fires of Syria's civil war and is spilling over into vulnerable mosaic societies such as Leba**n. On Sunday, it declared a state in areas under its control and its leader caliph of Muslims throughout the world.
07-01-2014, 09:42 PM
Sectarian genie is out of the bottle from Syria to Iraq
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