Word: affrontive
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Bhutto treats the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as a personal affront, one that "twisted the values of a great and noble religion and potentially set the hopes and dreams of a better life for Muslims back a generation." Muslims, she says, "became [al Qaeda's] victims too." For the first half of the book, Bhutto attempts to reclaim Islam from the perversion of fundamentalists that would use it for political advantage, explaining how the concept of jihad, meaning a personal struggle "to follow the right path," had been adulterated for the purposes of fighting the Soviet invasion...
...from commendable: 19 percent of the delegates to the Republican National Convention are unpledged; of those, a significant portion is unelected. In this election and every election, the chance that a handful of political elites has the power to overturn the will of the people is an unforgivable affront to democracy.One citizen, one vote: A principle basic enough for elementary students to grasp manages to elude our major political parties. Privileged as they are by electoral laws that make third-party success all but impossible, the Democrats and Republicans cannot hide behind tired excuses of their moral or legal independence...
...when the Venezuelan firebrand went on one of his rants and repeatedly accused former Spanish Prime Minister José MariaAznar of being a "fascist" who had supported a 2002 coup attempt against Chávez. Chávez later spun Juan Carlos' outburst as a monarchical affront to democracy (though Juan Carlos was, in fact, key to restoring constitutional rule in Spain after the death of its genuinely fascist dictator, Francisco Franco, in 1975). "The king is a head of state like me," Chávez said, "only I've been elected three times with 63% support...
...beer has been the subject of decades of horrifying mistreatment and ignorance. The proverbial American “cold one”—Bud, Miller, or Beast—is a travesty, an affront to human dignity...
...doubt most denizens of the Ivory Tower laughed off Mr. Hunter’s affront to academic freedom. This very newspaper published a staff editorial parodying the bill as a simple-minded and jingoistic sop to the congressman’s far-right constituency. Academic freedom—or, more precisely, the freedom for academics to say, and host forums for others to say, the most outlandish things—has become such an unexamined prerogative that few find it necessary to defend...