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As Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, recently remarked, one cannot be proud of the Jews of yesterday and tell the Jews of today that their religious practices are no longer welcome.
If the ethical values in Islamic finance – grounded in sharia religious law – can further deter moral hazard and the abuse of fiduciary duties by financial institutions, Islamic finance could prove to be a serious alternative to current models of derivative finance.
Parliamentary democracy was born centuries ago by Europeans sickened by domestic (mainly religious) wars.
Some non-democratic systems seem to evoke deeper support, because they are based on religious or national communal solidarity, and because closed societies minimize doubt, drift, and criticism.
The negotiation of each case, including the return of stolen funds, should be carried out discreetly, potentially in cooperation with religious institutions.
Celebrities, his work was saying, have replaced religious figures.
Recent bestsellers suggest that religious faith is really a sign of backwardness, the mark of primitives stuck in the dark ages who are yet to catch up with scientific reason.
Indeed, are there cases where religious faith comes to the rescue even of those who don’t have it?
But watching the Burmese monks on television defy the security forces of one of the world’s most oppressive regimes, it is hard not to see some merit in religious belief.
Burma is a deeply religious country, where most men spend some time as Buddhist monks.
And no one can deny the religious authority of Pope John Paul II as a spur to Poland’s rebellion against Communist dictatorship in the 1980’s.
But the moral power of religious faith does not need a supernatural explanation.
Its strength is belief itself – belief in a moral order that defies secular, or, indeed, religious dictators.
Some sheltered Jews -- despite their own prejudices -- simply because they saw it as their religious duty to do so.
In a world of political oppression and moral corruption, religious values offer an alternative moral universe.
Nevertheless, the danger of all dogmas, religious or secular, is that they lead to different forms of oppression.
But there has always been another, much smaller, group of asylum-seekers – those individuals forced to flee their home countries by persecution, often on religious or ethnic grounds.
Trump has revealed a profound lack of understanding of complex policy matters: national security, foreign affairs, immigration, taxation, economic inequality, health care, education, the environment, trade, abortion, religious rights, free expression, and much else.
And he continues to pander to the emotions of ill-educated white racists and others who feel left behind in the modern world, and blame their problems on liberals and unpopular ethnic and religious minorities.
Beyond this, international forces must secure and eliminate all weapons of mass destruction; prevent ethnic and religious tensions from erupting into violence; ensure that none of Iraq's neighbors exacerbates an already volatile situation.
Assisting Iraq's political regeneration may be the most difficult task, given the many religious, ethnic, geographic and political divisions that characterize Iraqi society.
As for the threat from the right, anyone hoping for peace in the region and reduced tensions within India between religious communities is relieved by the defeat of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
If protecting their government’s religious purity – and their own ill-gotten gains – required brutally repressing their own people and returning Iran to the dark ages, the extremists who would be left in charge would eagerly do it.
To be sure, if religious extremists take control of all levels of Iran’s government, appeals based on Iranians’ economic prospects will fall on deaf ears.
This would minimize the risk of severe violence in Iran, while galvanizing opposition to religious extremists.
For them, newcomers, living in an environment hostile to their way of life, need to preserve the cultural practices they bring with them, even if some of those practices – for example, arranged marriages, gender segregation, religious indoctrination – conflict with liberal principles.
He was not making a xenophobic argument that Muslims do not belong in Great Britain, or a multiculturalist argument that Muslims should be allowed to wear whatever traditional garb they believe best expresses their cultural and religious sensibilities.
Some argued that, in suggesting to Muslim women what they should wear, Straw was interfering with religious freedom.
Islam, for example, has historically permitted certain forms of polygamy, but no liberal society is obliged to extend religious freedom in ways that undermine its commitment to gender equality.
As he pointed out, wearing the nijab is not commanded by the Koran and represents a cultural choice, not a religious duty.
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