He took to heart the injunction of his mother (who died when he was four) that her children should be "undogmatic and unsectarian Christians, charitable to all churches and sects.
His religious mother insisted that her children be "unsectarian Christians .
Ayad Allawi in CNN I would play my role in Iraq in whatever capacity is required to change Iraq into an unsectarian country, to a peaceful country, to a democratic country,Allawi said.