Word: distorting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Islam is convinced that liberal, secular society is determined to wipe out religion. Fighting, as they imagine, a battle for survival, fundamentalists often feel justified in ignoring the more compassionate principles of their faith. But in amplifying the more aggressive passages that exist in all our scriptures, they distort the tradition...
...Deobandis do not like to be called fundamentalists. They say that is a term that can apply to every religion. And they don't like the term "Islamic terrorist" either. "Islam means peace," says Maulana Said Palanpuri, the school's Arabic professor. "There are people who distort God's teaching and we condemn them. But why do people in the West use the term Islamic terrorist and not Christian terrorist or Jewish terrorist when Christian and Jews commit atrocities...
...news can avoid the nagging doubt that one is being duped, that the networks’ influence is being used to promote a hidden agenda. Journalists are human, after all, and have senses, affections, passions—all the things that lead us to dissemble or to distort the truth...
...defeated if we distort the nature and the values of American life in order to combat terrorism
...Terrorism is not about defeating us in any conventional sense, but in undermining our way of life. We are defeated if we distort the nature and the values of American life in order to combat terrorism. We are not a society based on geography, or religion, or a common heritage, but on an idea - the idea of freedom and liberty. It is that idea - and that reality - that terrorism seeks to undermine...