Word: clericalization
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...rare glimpse into Bush’s psyche was revealed in the fall of 2003, commentators almost universally saw it as a bad thing, but there might be something to be said for steering clear of the cavalcade of facts and (occasionally) half-baked opinions found in newspapers.The British cleric and essayist John Henry Newman, for one, despised the “parti-colored ingenuities” and “reckless originality of thought” that periodical literature seems to engender. He saw the continual arrival of deadlines as a type of “cruel slavery...
...would welcome a boost in money and weapons, if just to strengthen their hand against rivals. Analysts generally believe that Iran could in a short time orchestrate a dramatic increase in the number and severity of attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. As Syed Ayad, a secular Shi'ite cleric and Iraqi Member of Parliament says, "America owns the sky of Iraq with their Apaches, but Iran owns the ground...
...Baghdad and a long-distance hostage negotiator in the case, told New Zealand?s National Radio that ?to be quite honest with you, [the conversion] was our suggestion.? That is, it had not been part of the kidnappers? program so much as a mechanism, suggested by a Christian cleric, to enable the abductors to save face in giving up their hostages. Now admittedly, they did go for it. But combined with the seemingly unanimous subsequent condemnation of the act by Muslims, it hardly seemed like the latest tool of Jihad. Bernard Haykel, an associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic...
...minute address under heavy security, the Muslim cleric also defended the militant Lebanese group Hezbollah as a legitimate resistance movement fighting for the “territorial integrity” of Lebanon...
...Khatami, an Islamic cleric who led Iran from 1997 to 2005, is set to speak at 4 p.m. tomorrow on the “Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence” at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum...