sectarian divisions
Lebanese town bans Muslims from buying, renting property
By Bassem Mroue — June 26, 2019
BEIRUT (AP) — The ban only applies to Christian property — a Muslim resident or landowner of Hadat is allowed to sell or rent his property to Muslims from outside the town or to whomever he wants.
White house condemns attack on Iranian Shiite pilgrims in Iraq
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 25, 2016
WASHINGTON - The target of the attack appears to have been a bus carrying Iranians returning from southern Iraq after participating in Arbaeen, a Shiite pilgrimage that is even larger than the Haj.
In Britain, between a rock and a hard place
By Tahir Nasser — July 4, 2016
(RNS) I know the road Britain is going down and I know where it leads. I have seen it in Pakistan.
England’s Muslim leaders to media: Don’t inflame Sunni-Shiite tensions
By Trevor Grundy — June 20, 2014
LONDON (RNS) Leaders of the Shiite community in the United Kingdom, about 5 percent of the total Muslim community, are doing all they can to tone down tension with Sunnis.
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