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Made right before the buzz-crushing ultra-conservative religious right backlash against the gloriously loose'n'libertine permissiveness of the 70's took hold, this wonderfully wild'n'raucous animated sci-fi/horror/fantasy anthology film gleefully wallows in excessive graphic violence, crass leering objectification of the amply proportioned female form (buxom ladies only, please), and a wickedly funny line in cheery low-brow humor.
India suffered caste conflicts, clashes over the rights of different linguistic groups, religious riots (mainly between Hindus and Muslims), and separatist threats.
Not all ideological hawks are religious, although those who are base their claim on divine promises and prophecies.
Religious and community leaders across the country have already joined this crucial effort.
That is the outcome that liberals and religious minorities fear the most.
Today’s conservatives are known among religious scholars as “People of the Letter” – those who adhere to the letter of the Islamic texts.
The difference between Muslim conservatives and reformists can be measured in two ways: their stance on the possibility of making personal judgments on religious matters (known in religious terms as “diligence”) and their attitude towards non-Muslims.
Reformists, on the other hand, argue that individual judgment – diligence – is permissible, and that society is empowered to make choices based on contemporary needs, regardless of the opinions of previous religious scholars.
Reformists also take an expansive view of religious law (Sharia), incorporating ideas of public welfare within a continually developing legislative process.
Thus, for reformists, banks and insurance companies serve the welfare of society, and this takes precedence over a traditional reading of religious texts.
The tide of events shifted to favor the opposition and facilitate coordination among its disparate parts, including politicians, business leaders, civil society organizations, active and retired military officials, intellectuals, labor unions and even members of religious groups.
Equitable progress is the only sustainable long-term solution to India’s entrenched problems – whether corruption, poverty, caste wars, or religious conflict.
It refers to “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.”
His anti-terrorist partnership with the United States fatally undermined his political alliance with Pakistan’s religious conservatives even before his government stormed Islamabad’s Red Mosque in July, killing more than 100 people.
Sharif would fulminate against her every misstep, threats of attack from religious radicals would continue, and the military would safeguard its interests from just off stage.
A Nobel laureate who teaches at Princeton University, Krugman is also a columnist for the New York Times, whose commentaries and blog, “The Conscience of a Liberal,” are read with an almost religious fervor by liberal (in the American sense) economists and journalists around the world.
The US went to war in Iraq on the basis of Bush’s gut instincts and religious convictions, not rigorous evidence.
Wilson, have reached out to religious communities to support the fight against human-induced climate change and the fight for biological conservation, and those religious communities have reached back in harmony with science.
For example, the country’s reputation as a model of Muslim moderation has recently been undermined by intolerance and violence against religious minorities.
So, while Indonesians may court the global spotlight, their chief concerns should be fostering strong and stable economic growth, stemming domestic religious intolerance, and preserving ASEAN unity in the face of China’s increasingly assertive policy in the region.
Iraq is a Shiite-majority country, but Saddam’s political apparatus was dominated by Sunnis, many of whom had acquired deep religious convictions during a period of Islamization in the 1990s.
But however unpleasant anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies may be, the main target of the populists’ ire remains the sinister globalist elite, represented by George Soros and other liberals whom they accuse of promoting human rights, compassion for refugees, and religious tolerance to further their own interests.
Immanuel Kant, with his categorical imperative, provided the philosophical foundations for those who wanted an alternative basis for ethics than that provided by religious aphorisms.
The rise of incompetent states brings about huge challenges: proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, religious and ethnic strife, rivalry for natural resources, waves of migration, drug trafficking, and deterioration of the environment.
China traditionally had institutions – clan associations, religious communities, business groups, and so on – that were relatively autonomous.
Strict Party control of religious, academic, artistic, and journalistic expression stifles the dissemination of necessary information and creative thought.
There is another concern that ought to engage both leaders: How will developments in the global economy, especially the transatlantic slowdown and the emergence of religious and other extremist politics in Asia affect not only their own countries’ rise, but also that of Asia as a whole?
After years of repression at the hands of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi Shia are tasting freedom - and spurring their religious counterparts throughout the Gulf to become more assertive.
But then minorities - especially with a history of subjugation - always do, because it allows them to express their cultural identity and religious freedom.
This systematic neutering of the Shia in Saudi Arabia is legitimised by the Wahhabi religious establishment and supported by numerous fatwas denouncing them as heretics.
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