Conflict in the Middle East is about more than just religion | World news | The Observer
The issue of how sectarianism is playing in the region's emerging conflicts – not least in Syria – is made doubly difficult by the fact that the spectre of widening Sunni-Shia conflict is also being cynically exploited, a claim made by the Iraqi scholar Harith al-Qarawee, writing in National Interest earlier this year about Iraq.
There, he argues, "sectarian identities are used by political entrepreneurs to achieve political goals. Although cultural symbolism and collective narratives are a part of this process, the real objectives are political – and largely calculated."
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