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In any case, the religious beliefs of a minority should not deny individuals like Dudley Clendinen the right to end their lives in the manner of their own choosing.
Religious conservatives were stunned.
Leaders of the religious parties rushed to denounce Mohammad’s views.
Indeed, the Al Saud clan’s third and fourth generations are divided not only in political and religious affiliation, but also range in age from 20 to 90 years old.
This is obvious to most Israelis, who also view this dominant role as a distortion of their ancient moral and religious values.
Perhaps religious and political leaders in electorally overachieving states such as Senegal, Mali, Bangladesh, and Indonesia draw upon some of these concepts.
Unless Arab political culture is shown to be uniquely and permanently inimical to electoral competitiveness, it makes more sense to understand the democratic divide in the Muslim world in terms of the political - as opposed to the ethnic or religious - particularities of the Middle East and North Africa.
According to the International Society for Human Rights, 80% of all acts of religious persecution worldwide in 2012 were directed at Christians.
While Libya has no significant religious minority, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians live and work in the country, where Christian proselytizing is illegal – and where one can be accused of proselytizing simply for possessing a Bible.
As a result, the government has not hesitated to try to curry favor with the Islamists by using legislation that prohibits “hurting religious sentiments” to harass and arrest atheists and liberals.
The Islamists, however, want the government to pass a blasphemy law like that in Pakistan, which decrees death for religious dissent.
There has also been a backlash against cultural globalization – encompassing cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and secularism – driven by those who seek the comforts of traditional ethnic, religious, or national identity.
On one side are politicians like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, US President Barack Obama, former Israeli Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog, and religious figures like Pope Francis.
Above all, they adhere to a universal discourse based on international law and ethical, moral, and religious principles.
Any appeal to human rights is derided as dangerous naiveté, as are references to moral or religious imperatives.
These views are promoted not only by politicians, but also by leading religious authorities, including the evangelical right in the US, Catholic prelates in Eastern Europe, and Israel’s nationalist rabbis.
This system, which codifies Lebanon’s factionalism, remains a subject of much controversy, but, by ensuring that no group can govern at the expense of others, it also reinforces baseline stability in a country built atop powerful religious and ethnic fault lines.
For although Crown Prince Abdullah has his own loyal entourage, including the National Guard, he confronts opposition from senior figures in the religious establishment.
These countries would rather empower other actors, even if it means fueling dangerous religious radicalization and the privatization of violence.
But, according to Burma’s Constitutional Referendum Act, members of religious organizations, those subject to criminal prosecution, and members of ethnic groups that have not agreed to a ceasefire with the government were barred from voting.
This process, indeed, is echoed in the 22 Arab countries, where religious orthodoxy rules out any significant liberal political opposition.
In return, his subjects owe him obedience within the constraints of Sharia religious law.
The highest council of Saudi religious scholars recently declared demonstrations to be categorically un-Islamic.
Saudi Arabia’s Shia Stand UpBEIRUT – On February 24, violent confrontations between Shia pilgrims and the Saudi religious police and security forces occurred at the entrance to the Prophet Mohamed’s Mosque in Medina.
Thus, the Mutawa’ah, the religious police of the Committee for the Preservation of Virtue and the Prohibition of Vice, armed with sticks and backed by police firing into the air, tried to disperse the pilgrims.
Khomeini challenged the very concept of monarchy in Islam by declaring that “those with authority” are not Kings but religious scholars.
The Saudi religious establishment has long been on alert to this rival and threatening entity.
According to Alan Levinovitz, a professor of religious studies at James Madison University, Trump uses capitalization in his tweets much as medical quacks and religious charlatans did in their efforts to bamboozle the public in centuries past.
Non-governmental and non-profit civil contracts bind people together for communal, religious, social, and political activities.
And they may also wish to play a role on the wider world stage, as when they link up with fellow ethnics in international religious, cultural and labour organizations.
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