Take a poor backward country ruled by a military dictatorship. Particularly a foreign-controlled military dictatorship.
Add a religious majority and another religious minority.
Voila - a simple and quick recipe for civil war and genocide.
These atrocities are as old as religion, the world's oldest con game and the military, the world's oldest professional killers.
  The British have been inciting these religious wars for centuries and now the Americans as well. They are amazing for the lucrative business of the military-industrial Establishment. And now the refugees and immigrants are fantastic for cheap labour.
   We can have democracy or we can have undue influence of conflicting diverse religions. We can't have both. Shame on Canada for choosing wars and religions.
  I might add, after the end of the Cold War the US wanted a new enemy to fight - for power, for profits, for domestic control. They started a war on Islam. The rest is the history of blood and treasure gone up in smoke.