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Above all, many are scared of public opinion, which – for all the heart-warming scenes of welcome and support for asylum-seekers – remains hesitant and even hostile to the prospect of still more migrants from war-torn, troubled countries, especially if they practice a different
religion.
While polling suggests that attitudes are influenced more by ethnicity than religion, both help to define identities and mindsets.
This is hardly an issue for ordinary Germans, because
religion
plays almost no role in German public life (so long as the
religion
in queston is not Islam).
A conservative ruling party with deep religious roots is content to leave
religion
to private observance, with no direct influence on public policy.
The idea of a bi-national Israeli-Palestinian state embodies the dangerous illusion that two peoples who are utterly different in their language, religion, culture, and history, who are divided by a deep economic chasm and connected to their own external worlds – the Palestinians to the Arab world and Israelis to the rest of world Jewry – can be combined in the framework of a single state.
At the same time, some of those defending the practice have also pointed to the UDHR, particularly Article 18, which holds that, “everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.”
Moreover, Article 18 defines this right broadly: everyone has the “freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his
religion
or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.”
As the United States has historically shown, tolerance means upholding a broader definition of people’s right to practice religion, or otherwise express their cultural identity, according to their beliefs, while withholding judgment on whether such beliefs are “right” or “wrong.”
In particular, the Egyptian authorities brazenly use Article 98(f) of the Egyptian Penal Code – which prohibits citizens from defaming a “heavenly religion,” inciting sectarian strife, or insulting Islam – to detain, prosecute, and imprison members of non-majority religious groups, especially Christians.
In January 2015, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi issued a decree that permits the government to ban any foreign publications it deems offensive to religion, thereby expanding the government’s already significant censorship powers and increasing pressure on journalists further.
These zealots are not fundamentalists in any common sense of the term, since Hinduism is a
religion
without fundamentals: there is no Hindu pope, no Hindu Sabbath, no single Hindu holy book, and no such thing as a Hindu heresy.
Indeed, these extremists can hardly claim to espouse Hinduism, which stands out not only as an eclectic embodiment of tolerance, but also as the only major
religion
that does not claim to be the sole true one.
All ways of worship, Hinduism asserts, are valid, and
religion
is an intensely personal matter related to the individual’s self-realization in relation to God.
Back then, parliament was seen as a means to bridge the divides of caste, religion, and region.
They also seek efficient governance, economic reforms to stimulate growth, the ouster of collaborators, democratic rights, freedom of
religion
(and perhaps also from religion) – in short, a comprehensive social transformation.
Turkey’s Nation of FaithsANKARA – After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities, and thus to guarantee that the rule of law is applied equally for all Turkish citizens, regardless of individuals’ religion, ethnicity, or language.
Two types of political cleavage are exacerbated in the process: an identity cleavage, revolving around nationhood, ethnicity, or religion, and an income cleavage, revolving around social class.
Its cultural context differs from twentieth-century insurgencies, particularly the use of a radical ideology derived from
religion.
Making Peace Between Darwinism and ChristianityAre science and
religion
fated to mutual enmity?
But the interplay of evolution and
religion
is more complex than opposition and conflict.
Evolutionary ideas are born of
religion.
Science and
religion
still wrestle over the legacy of Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection.
Elsewhere he attacks
religion
directly: "The kinds of views of the universe which religious people have traditionally embraced have been puny, pathetic, and measly in comparison to the way the universe actually is.
People like Dawkins, and the Creationists for that matter, make a mistake about the purposes of science and
religion.
Science and religion, evolution and Christianity, need not conflict, but only if each knows its place in human affairs--and stays within these boundaries.
To be Western or Westernized, above all, is a mindset which does not coincide with any continent, nor with any specific nation or
religion.
Looking more closely, one finds that while these controversies were often framed in religious terms, they were not at all about
religion.
Mistakenly viewed by some as an example of French laicité, which might be characterized as “freedom of the state from religion,” Senegal, although once a French colony, has crafted a very different model of “equal respect and equal support for all religions.”
If, on the other hand, the European Parliament’s members follow through on the logic of my case – if my shunning becomes the basis for a consistent policy – the EU will be on its way to creating a kind of morality police and launching a modern-day inquisition, one that crassly violates both freedom of
religion
and freedom of conscience.
Nevertheless, the stakes are far higher than in the seventeenth century, because Iran represents a threat that combines a fanatic
religion
with a determination to acquire nuclear weapons.
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