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So in the 20th century, you had this vicious cycle in the Arab world, where you have a dictatorship suppressing its own people, including the Islamic pious, and they're reacting in reactionary ways.
And the pious Muslims in Turkey saw that they could change the political system by voting.
Now, there's the more urban middle-class pious Muslims who, again, look at their tradition and see that there are some problems in the tradition, and understand that they need to be changed and questioned and reformed.
That's why the EU process, Turkey's effort to join the EU, has been supported inside Turkey by the Islamic pious, while some secular nationalists were against it.
And thanks to that, Turkey has been able to reasonably create a success story in which Islam and the most pious understandings of Islam have become part of the democratic game, and even contributes to the democratic and economic advance of the country.
They were pious people, but they were also really aggressive capitalists, and they were accused of extreme forms of profit-making tendencies, compared to the other colonists.
That is, he did none of the things that might make it easy to cry foul, to put down the whole story as a pious fable.
Do you want the pious society with strict moral rules, or do you an hedonistic free-for-all, more like Burning Man 24/7?
It's a pious hope, I wish it were true, but I think the other day he admitted to me it's really an ugly universe.
Though she was a devout Catholic, she wasn’t afraid to explore the possibility of pious thought and unpious behavior co-existing in the same person.
Korean cinema has the ability to turn genres on its head, and the latest by the celebrated director Chan-wook Park is a tale of a good pious priest who becomes a vampire.
But I'm just not entertained by such solemn, pious rememberances.
All of the pious uptight Christian attitudes of that time were deadly to exploring TRUE emotional feelings that would allow us to embrace suffering souls, let alone explore what it means to embrace our humanity.
This movie represents the kind of self-righteous pious moralising that renders one quite nauseous.
You know Henry Fonda was a good actor when he can play a priest, and actually look pious.
A very pious and severe man with little sense of humor, he also apparently has no problem with premarital sex (with two different women) and is an advocate for the working poor.
We follow two stories : Laura (played by the ravishing Fanny Valette) is a 19 year-old philosophy student, committed to Kant and to rationalism in the midst of a pietistic household which, to put it mildly, does not share her enthusiasm for philosophy (as his pious sister remarks, philosophers take aim at their target and hit the bullseye : problem is, they're aiming at the wrong target).
Pious talk about reworking the UN sanctions is another version of the second alternative - that is, of doing nothing.
Politicians would adopt the Baptists’ pious rhetoric, while quietly taking campaign contributions from the criminals.
The possibility that a girl wearing a headscarf might in fact be rebelling against her parents and their kind of Islam, and that others might be deeply pious while being utterly revolted by gender discrimination or violence, is lost from view.
It may be a pious hope, but it is the very foundation of Indian nationhood.
In the preaching of Islamists seeking recruits, he notes, are “descriptions of a paradise more similar to a bordello than the reward for pious individuals, fantasies of virgins for suicide bombers, morality police chasing down women showing too much skin, the puritanism of dictatorship, veils, and burqas.”
When faced by a US bent upon bloody vengeance, an acute institutional sense of survival sent the military establishment scurrying to join the US-led coalition and take up arms against its former creation, the Taliban and their Amir-ul-Momineen (leader of the pious).
Socrates is convinced that Euthyphro would not prosecute his own father without being absolutely certain that it is the pious thing to do.
For all the world’s pious proclamations about “never again,” a mantra arising from the Holocaust, mass murder almost never motivates foreign intervention.
Indeed, pious Catholic Italian city-states were the cradle of early modern capitalism.
Rather than confront the political obstacles, Europe’s leaders are hiding behind a mountain of pious, nonsensical rhetoric.
Likewise, pious conservatives and liberal and leftist secular youth, who joined forces in Cairo and Tunis in 2010-2011 to challenge the dictators, have now turned on each other: witness the Egyptian security forces’ appalling massacres of Islamist demonstrators in Cairo recently, following a military coup carried out with liberals’ support.
Instead, he found eager supporters among pious Protestants, for whom Jews belonged in their own holy land rather than in Europe.
For millions of Muslims, it has been a guide to the universal predicament faced by all believers: how to be pious in an impious world.
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