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In terms of ethnic origin and religious practice, they were a representative sample of Germany’s Muslim community.
According to Gallup, only 7% of Muslims are politically radical and condone the use of violence, and their motives are not so much religious as inspired by the demeaning political and social treatment that Muslims are perceived to suffer.
This is in marked contrast to the conventional view in the West that the prime motive for Islamist terrorism is religious.
As humans, we are well aware of these: the transmission of cultural variations, such as different religious beliefs, is a prime example.
On the contrary, the way in which the various religious and ethnic groups in Iraq responded to his execution is emblematic of the difficulty of holding Iraq together as a coherent entity.
Violent conflicts among Indonesia's myriad ethnic and religious groups continue.
Indeed, the great paradox of the current era of globalization is that the quest for homogeneity has been accompanied by a longing for ethnic and religious roots.
Dictatorships, unlike democracies, are ill-equipped to accommodate ethnic and religious diversity.
At stake is the cohesion of a state that many argue is yet another example of an artificial nation cobbled together by Europeans who did not understand their creation’s social, tribal, and religious forces.
In addition, religious violence sparked by the Danish cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad ripped through Nigeria in February.
Various ethnic and religious groups, based in different regions, are battling for oil revenue and political clout.
The third difficulty concerns the fact that, on both sides, most religious authorities, rabbis and imams alike, have maintained a hard-line stance.
To make these religious authorities acknowledge their responsibility is a duty that all of international civil society, including religious leaders, must embrace.
The Irresistible Rise of the Muslim Middle ClassLAHORE – The Muslim world’s current turmoil has one key cause that is rooted in neither religious ideology nor sectarian struggle.
In asserting themselves, middle-class Muslims are guided by no particular political philosophy or religious preference.
The victors were an amorphous political center, focused on domestic issues, and the annexationist religious right.
Israel’s life in a bubble was also exemplified by the two major religious parties in the elections.
From that point on, the specter of a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority in an apartheid state is bound to become a reality, turning Israel into an international pariah, unless a more sober coalition replaces Netanyahu’s suicidal alliance with religious fundamentalists and extreme nationalists.
Since Sudan won independence from the United Kingdom in 1956, the country has been convulsed by almost constant civil war based on the north-south cultural and religious divide.
If the non-Muslim South had gained at independence a large degree of religious, cultural, and administrative autonomy within a devolved federal structure, it is conceivable that the country could have remained at peace.
The Dangerous Rise of Buddhist ChauvinismTOKYO – The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, composed no sutta to religious hatred or racial animus.
Most ominous for Myanmar’s future, given that all genocides are linked to official action, this racial and religious antagonism is in no way spontaneous.
The religious and ethnic passions of the Sinhalese were encouraged during the final, bloody push that ended Sri Lanka’s quarter-century of civil war with the Tamil Tigers in 2009.
The European Union, the United States, and the world’s other democracies have the capacity to raise the issue of religious persecution; what they lack is the will.
The EU should follow the example of the US State Department, which publishes a comprehensive annual report on religious freedom around the world.
That way, it would become clear that these states cannot operate with impunity when it comes to their religious minorities, whether they profess Christianity or any other faith.
They mobilize armies, organize political factions, combat warlords, or try to grapple with religious extremism.
Spinoza worried that the liberal and secular commonwealth, in which Protestants, Jews, and even atheists and (to some degree) Catholics were allowed to go about their business, was under threat from political and religious demagogues seeking to steer Holland away from its official policy of toleration.
What most concerned Spinoza was the way unscrupulous leaders could stir up religious passions and manipulate citizens’ fears.
Having secured support from several influential evangelical leaders, Bolsonaro also supports religious interference in public life.
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