Ethnosectarian

Since it is clear that no amount of modernization is likely to eliminate (through total assimilation) minority solidarity groups, the possibility for ethnosectarian conflict remains a constant danger should the conflict-precipitating circumstances arise.

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The political and economic history (especially post-Islamic) of Southwest, Central, and South Asia is marked by episodic ethnosectarian persecutions and massive forced and voluntary movements of the various population groupings.

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Moreover, language, discourse, and dialogue, their definition and mobilisation, create chains of equivalence which enclose subjects within not only ethnosectarian but at times entirely self-referential and self-sustained notions of identity, practice and collective devotion.

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"What Iraq needs is leaders who have deep roots here, who have proven themselves to be effective and trusted by the Iraqi public," says Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar, a Governing Council member who represents a large tribal confederation. "The most important thing that should happen is we should stop looking at Iraq through this ethnosectarian lens."

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