"Saudi Arabia is not a sectarian state."
Didn't say it wasn't Dave - lots of countries are or aspire to be mono-religious- sectarian.
My point refers to countries which have been forcibly partitioned.
Ireland was forcibly divided in order to create a Protestant State which remained part of the United Kingdom - this was Britain's response was to demands for complete independence (as was happening throughout the Empire) - partition.
The signing of the treaty led to a bloody civil war which lasted a year - inter-community violence, based on the rights given to the dominant religion, has been a fact of life ever since.
Jim Carroll