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In countries afflicted by religious conflict, such as Nigeria, this means helping religious leaders to develop strong inter-community relationships.
Last June’s arson attack on the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association’s center in the city’s Muswell Hill district (which followed the murder of British Army fusilier Lee Rigby by religious extremists) served only to unite its different communities.
These activities sent a powerful signal to extremists that their attempts to turn religious communities against each other had the opposite effect.
These are the thorny problems, which combine political, strategic, religious and symbolic issues that transcend the human dimensions of what is to happen to the populations - Jewish and Arab - involved.
The sect holds the northern political and religious elite in contempt, and does not recognize the authority of the Sultan of Sokoto, leader of Nigerian Muslims.
Indeed, they blame northern political and religious leaders for the region’s mounting economic and political problems, and have killed several in the past two years.
A powerful and wealthy feudal elite that has maintained power for two centuries through a mix of authoritarianism and religious sentiment now feels embattled following its loss of power in Abuja and, with it, the means to dispense patronage to formerly obsequious followers.
In the past, regions or communities have achieved statehood almost exclusively after a struggle against colonial subjection and oppression, galvanized by an appeal to a distinctive religious, cultural, or ethnic identity.
What Edmund Burke defined as a group’s attachment to “the inns and resting places of the human spirit” – that is, ethnic, religious, and community ties – would have been a much more powerful mobilizing force for an independence movement.
Prewar anti-Semitism was directed not just at religious Jews, but also – and perhaps especially – at assimilated Jews, who were no longer easy to identify in any way as distinct.
Prejudice against Muslims would appear to be less racial, and more cultural and religious.
In the case of Beck’s rally in Washington DC, the link with history of rural churches and religious “revival” meetings was overt.
After the event, Beck gave an interview, in which he criticized Obama – not for his tax policies, but for having the wrong religious beliefs.
The EU, being the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions, is a community of values.
Refah wanted women to be allowed to once again don modest religious dress; for children to be able to go to religious parochial schools through middle school.
But the central issue--whether or not there is a place for a religious party in a democracy--is unlikely to go away, for several reasons.
In May, the state prosecutor filed a suit in Turkey's constitutional court to have Refah, which is not a new party by any means, banned on the grounds that it is a religious party in a secular state.
While many voters selected Refah because of its platform, others turned to a religious party as a means of rejecting the traditional parties and their exclusionary tactics.
Between February and June this year, the generals demanded that private Koranic instruction be brought under government control, that all Islamist social activities be restricted, that public and school dress codes be fully secular, and that the number of pupils in religious schools be limited.
It talked of a foreign policy that looked more toward Turkey's cultural and religious brethren than to the West.
Indeed, despite the decade of the West’s war on terror, and Saudi Arabia’s longer-term alliance with the US, the Kingdom’s Wahhabi religious establishment has continued to bankroll Islamic extremist ideologies around the world.
He was no religious innovator; he was a product of Wahhabism, and later was exported by the Wahhabi regime as a jihadist.
Some religious leaders also condemned the use of modern scientific technology to replace sexual intercourse, even when it could not lead to conception.
Religious opposition notwithstanding, the use of IVF by infertile couples of normal reproductive age has been widely accepted around the world, and rightly so.
Now Rasheed reflects on his country’s turn toward religious extremism: he describes a pre-invasion Iraq in which women were professionals and fairly emancipated, whereas now women wear headscarves under pressure, “for a peaceful life.”
Constant intimidation by religious extremists and political factions is the intellectual’s fate in Iraq today.
He recently began to identify with his religious and ethnic origins, and was experiencing academic difficulties at university, but he was well versed in multiple US subcultures.
Adam Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut, or James Holmes in Aurora, Colorado, are not viewed as part of a “suspicious” religious or ethnic group.
Most of the conflicts in today’s world have a religious dimension.
Finally, religious leaders must accept a new responsibility: to stand up firmly and resolutely for respecting those of faiths different from their own.
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