Word: clericalism
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...since Socrates was given hemlock to relieve Athens of his irritating views. The cartoon flap suggested that at least some British Muslim citizens would like to upend the whole system. Yet there was widespread support, including among Muslims, for the conviction of Abu Hamza al-Masri, a hook-armed cleric who turned his mosque in Finsbury Park, London, into a recruiting station for al-Qaeda. He was sentenced to seven years in jail for inciting murder and racial hatred, based on hours of videotaped sermons in which he advocated the killing of nonbelievers - "for any reason...
...done a number of books. I've read excerpts of a lot of them. [Reza Aslan's] No God but God, I've read it. Here at the State Department, we've hosted several events, trying to educate our own employees. We've had three scholars and one cleric come and speak about Islamic culture and traditions, and we had a huge turnout...
...HAVE BEEN GREAT TO DO FIVE OR 10 YEARS AGO, BUT NOW YOU'VE GOT IRAQ AND A GENERAL PERCEPTION THAT AMERICA IS NOT A FRIEND TO MUSLIMS AROUND THE WORLD. I recognized going in that this is the work of decades, not of months or weeks. Bringing a cleric or a coach who perhaps was very anti-American to America, having them go home with perhaps a different view--that's not going to show up in a public-opinion poll in the next year. I told my staff this morning, "Sometimes I feel like I'm nibbling around...
...place--media outlets in France, Germany and Spain ran some of the drawings in a defense of press freedom. Many Muslims say the republications exacerbated their belief that the cartoons' sole purpose was to humiliate them. Meanwhile, the most violent reactions in the Arab world came after a Copenhagen cleric appeared on al-Jazeera in late January and mentioned rumors that Danes planned to burn copies of the Koran in Copenhagen's City Hall Square. No copies were burned. In early February, almost three months after refusing to meet with the 11 Muslim ambassadors, Rasmussen summoned the entire foreign diplomatic...
...only one of the four with even less credibility than Allawi is Chalabi. While claiming to be a secular politician, he went into last January's election as a member of the Shi'ite coalition, as an ally of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. This time around, he contested the election on his own-and appears to have failed to win a single seat outright. The elections proved what most journalists have suspected all along: that Chalabi is one of Iraq's most despised political figures. Only in the surreal world of Iraqi politics would such a man even...