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In effect, by not accepting Saudi largesse the militant will be keeping food off his own family’s table – a powerful restraint in a culture and
religion
in which parents are highly regarded and respected.
The modern tendency to regard economic differences in terms of
religion
was stimulated by Max Weber’s reflections on the Protestant work ethic.
Their judgment was clear: Muslims had sunk far below what their
religion
required them to be, and lagged far behind the accomplishments of their ancestors.
Will EU citizens whose origins are in other continents and whose
religion
is Hindu or Islam, Sikh or Buddhist, be able to identify with “European” values and culture?
Given this commitment, subsidy for the opera raises an obvious question: Since liberals are opposed to the establishment of religion, how can they justify supporting the establishment of one of the great totems of secular humanism — the operas of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and other lesser saints in the secular canon?
That is not to say that the US, the EU, and other concerned actors should not do everything possible to ensure that Ukraine’s people, whatever language they speak and
religion
they practice, gain the rights and prosperity that they desperately seek.
But she has still called for a ban on yarmulkes and kosher slaughter as part of a promise to crack down on public displays of
religion.
They define their
religion
as moderate and liberal, with many upholding gay rights and abortion, both anathema to evangelical Christians.
It should be acknowledged that Ben Ali strengthened the foundations of Tunisian exceptionalism, furthering gender equality and separation of
religion
and state.
Although influenced over the centuries by Christianity and Islam, the Yezidi
religion
has ancient pagan roots that go back at least to the late Bronze Age.
For example, Zoroastrianism, the
religion
of ancient Iran – to which Yezidi religious beliefs have been linked – is closely related to early Hinduism.
Finally, Indian nationalism is not based on
religion.
The country is home to every faith known to mankind, and Hinduism – a
religion
that not only lacks a national organization, established church, or ecclesiastical hierarchy, but also uniform beliefs or modes of worship – exemplifies our diversity as much as it does our common cultural heritage.
It enshrines the rights to a fair trial, privacy, free expression and association, and freedom of thought in
religion
and conscience.
In most Asia-Pacific countries, economic growth has nurtured freedom of thought and religion, as well as more accountable and responsive political systems.
With the election approaching, the doves’ campaign should not center on abstract peace plans, Israel’s international isolation, or the separation of
religion
and the state – all topics that generate endless discussion in Israel.
It’s almost as if the Communist Party had turned Marx on his head, replacing
religion
with profit as the new “opium of the masses.”
The unemployed workers of Greece, Portugal, and Spain do not move to faster-growing regions of Europe because of differences in language, history, religion, union membership, etc.
Education is also important in the Arab context because of its special status in Islam, which, like Judaism and Christianity, is a
religion
of the book.
Mathematics was outlawed as irreligious and alien, and was later made subservient to
religion.
National passions, unduly exalted in the decline of religion, burned beneath the surface of nearly every land with fierce, if shrouded, fires.
PRINCETON – Last month, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning “defamation of religion” as a human rights violation.
According to the text of the resolution, “Defamation of
religion
is a serious affront to human dignity” that leads to “a restriction on the freedom of [religions’] adherents.”
Speaking on behalf of the European Union, a German spokesperson rejected the concept of “defamation of religion” as not valid in a human rights context, because human rights belonged to individuals, not to institutions or religions.
While attempts to stir up hatred against adherents of a religion, or to incite violence against them, may legitimately be suppressed, criticism of
religion
as such should not be.
For a start, what counts as “defamation of religion” is contested.
Coincidentally, in the same week that Germany and the World Jewish Congress rejected the idea that defamation of
religion
is an affront to human dignity, and upheld the right to freedom of expression, Germany’s highest court issued its ruling on a case brought by a Jewish organization, and two Jewish individuals.
If PETA is not allowed to state its case against our abuse of animals in the way that they judge best, because doing so might offend some people, then criticism of
religion
could also be prohibited on the same grounds.
If, on the other hand, a religion’s adherents have no right to protection against criticism of their religion, then, even in Germany, Holocaust victims and their descendants (I am one) should not be protected against advertising campaigns that, though not intended to incite hatred or violence, may cause them offense.
If it became a symbol, it was of Putin’s new Russia, with its mix of jingoistic nationalism and state religion; so any attack on a monument embodying the unity of church and state under Putin could not go unpunished.
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