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But the real progress made in recent years on women’s rights in Morocco suggests otherwise: a unique combination of activism by secular and religious women, the calculations of political parties, and a significant role for the King has led to real progress.
This threatened the authority of the King, who had overseen the religious establishment, as well as feminists’ efforts to moderate Morocco’s Family Law, which had been based on a rigid view of religious teachings.
Their strategy shifted as well, focusing on the growing importance of religious values in shaping societies and global relations.
As a result, the veil became a mechanism for making their presence felt publicly and gaining credibility within religious debates.
For many women, however, the veil is a token of liberation – an indication that they have engaged with the Moroccan public in ways that reflect their own sense of religious practice.
As a result, liberal feminists have increased their influence among both decision makers and religious women.
Feminist interpretations of religious texts – encouraged by increasing numbers of women in prominent religious positions – continue to challenge traditionalists of all stripes.
The women’s movement in Morocco – which now bridges secular and religious communities – is setting an example of the power of social thought in a traditional society.
Political enemies are collaborating to minimize security risks, and religious leaders advocate coexistence and tolerance.
With the region seemingly being sucked deeper into a vortex of permanent conflict, it is easy to believe that only dictators or religious bigots could impose any stability.
The flash point for Muslim-Christian tensions is Sharia, or Muslim religious law.
But freedom of expression resulted in more militant religious positions.
But, with the growing success of appeals to identity and renewed ethnic or religious nationalism, that is changing.
Admirably adept at weaving together all of Lebanon’s political, religious, and nationalists threads, Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nazrallah, is today the undisputed master of Lebanon.
Suicide bombers of this type, while difficult to hunt down and neutralize, can easily be identified and their criminality exposed, given their vicious and wanton disdain for ethical, moral, and religious norms.
Muslim religious and political leaders have the intellectual capital to refute their misplaced religious convictions, and can repeat sura after sura, hadith after hadith, detailing Islam's rejection of violence and repudiation of the killing of innocents.
Moreover, although Muslim religious and secular leaders are able to isolate millenarian terrorists and undercut their popular support, they lack the moral capital to completely discredit nationalist extremists groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as long as the Muslim laity shares some of their goals.
It is no accident that religious reform in Scandinavia, Germany, England, the Netherlands, and the United States gave rise to today’s global capitalism.
The importance of this should be abundantly clear to Westerners, whose modern civilization grew out of religious dissent that was initially met by the violence of the Inquisition and the Counter-Reformation.
But so deep is the prejudice in Indian society that many converted Sikhs found that their new co-religionists of higher castes, who dominate the faith’s official religious bodies, treated them no better than Hindus had.
There is, of course, the religious fervor that accompanies affiliation with a spiritual guru.
Many Indians lament that such blind religious devotion should thrive in their country in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
It shows that official institutions of governance will all too readily delegate their responsibilities, enabling those who run religious orders to live above the law.
The nub of the problem is that contemporary European civilization is secular, whereas Muslim civilization is religious.
Sharia religious law – extreme versions of which hold that conduct decriminalized in the West, such as adultery and homosexuality, is punishable by death – influences their legal codes.
But it may not be possible to prevent a return to religious politics – and the conflict which religious bigotry brings.
Yet, by passing the blame for their ongoing terrorist-proxy policy to their mullah puppets, the generals have made the US believe that the key is to contain the religious fringe, not the puppeteers.
Experts nonetheless believe that hemoglobin-based products can be used to save the lives of trauma patients, as well as to treat patients who object to donated blood on religious grounds (for example, Jehovah’s Witnesses).
In Moscow, the EU’s policy of democracy promotion awakens the nightmare of ethnic and religious politics and the threat of the territorial disintegration of the Russian Federation.
So far, there are no United Nations refugee camps, only modest aid from religious organizations and other NGOs.
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