Word: coercion
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...writes that since 9/11, Muslims find themselves, their actions, and their motives being interpreted, characterized, and frequently skewed from non-Muslim perspectives. He's got a great point. One shouldn't doubt the concern and good intentions of progressives and secularists calling for Muslim women to resist socio-cultural coercion and shed the hijab and niqab as an impediment to full integration into European society. Still, those same opponents of the veil shouldn't presume they can dismiss as misguided or deluded the conviction of women who say they wear hijab by choice, and who argue that the only coercion...
...reversal of the military outcome of 1683. This is the context in which Benedict attempted to make a larger point at Regensburg. He acknowledged that Christians have sometimes had a problem, and he suggested that Muslims still have a problem, in understanding the relationship between faith and coercion. Violence, said the Pope, is the enemy of reason. Violence has no place in the advancing of religion. To act against reason is to act against the nature...
...allegations. “In the course of [several months of dialogue with its employees at Harvard], AlliedBarton has proposed several reasonable options to the SEIU which would accomplish these essential goals and offer each of our employees the opportunity to express their personal choice without fear of intimidation, coercion or retribution,” Larry Rubin, a spokesman for AlliedBarton wrote in an e-mail. SEIU’s Morse argues that because security guards at other AlliedBarton sites have been able to unionize, it would appear that Harvard University is pressuring the company to keep its security guards...
...disturbed by Alibhai-Brown's column on her opposition to Muslim veils. Wearing the veil does not oppress women. It is only by coercion?which is the mark of an authoritarian society?that it becomes a symbol of oppression. I would not be as disconcerted if Alibhai-Brown expressed her views only in private. But by denouncing the veil publicly, she does not do justice to the Islamic faith, which remains part of her identity. Abdul Aziz Singapore...
...date education. After all, this is Britain in the 21st century, not the Arab world or the Middle Ages. Judith Lawrence Filey, England I was disturbed by Alibhai-Brown's column on her opposition to Muslim veils. Wearing the veil does not oppress women. It is only by coercion - which is the mark of an authoritarian society - that it becomes a symbol of oppression. I would not be as disconcerted if Alibhai-Brown expressed her views only in private. But by denouncing the veil publicly, she does not do justice to the Islamic faith, which remains part of her identity...