Word: devouting
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...leader of the group was Gelowicz, who was born in Munich and converted to Islam when he was 16. Though he became a devout Muslim, he appeared to lead the life of a normal teenager - he even played quarterback on an American football team. Things changed, however, when he started visiting an Islamic center in the southern city of Neu-Ulm and found himself outraged over the photos of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq and the terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay. "This Islamic center was a meeting place for young Muslims and they felt a sense...
...radio for some time) represented a convenient symbiosis. But the merger of film and television presented producers with a formidable challenge: how to create a program that would appeal to both the cinephile—deigning for one night to watch, shame of shames, television—and the devout TV viewer whose remote control happened to lead him there...
Those lines are written on a map of the world on display at the Library of Congress in Washington through April. The map is so rare - only six copies are known to exist - that to a fan of cartography, its exhibition is a bit like giving a devout Christian a chance to hold the Holy Grail. Prepared for the court of Emperor Wanli of the Ming dynasty by Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary in Beijing, the map places China at the center of the world, just where Chinese scholars thought (and think) appropriate. It was purchased last year...
...wildly inappropriate, terribly disrespectful, and downright mean, and I don’t know where it came from. I would like to think that I am not just a sucker for schadenfreude and that instead the hysterics were partially the result of feeling out of place in the devout setting. Or partially because of the irony that “Emanuel” is also the name of my temple back home. Or maybe it was just an expression of pure immaturity. I really don’t know. Regardless, it was a jolly service indeed...
...elderly vouchers that would gradually lose much of their value. This would save a boatload of money, of course ... but one wonders whether the party that gave the world "death panels" would stand behind such an all-out assault on the financial security of the nation's most devout voters. (See pictures of the partisan reaction to Barack Obama's State of the Union speech...