Word: faithfully
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...Cairo neighborhood known to be a sanctuary for extremists. Hundreds of fundamentalists were arrested. Still, the antigovernment attacks continue. Authorities now worry about the proliferation of small terrorist groups; diplomats fret about ham-fisted tactics. "The danger," warns an envoy, "is that fundamentalists may attain a level of faith that invites martyrdom...
...some older binding energy of belief or superstition, previous to civic consciousness, previous almost to thought. Here is the paradox of God-love as a life-force, the deepest well of compassion, that is capable of transforming itself into a death-force, with the peculiar annihilating energies of belief. Faith, the sweetest refuge and consolation, may harden, by perverse miracle, into a sword -- or anyway into a club or a torch or an assault rifle. Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute. The mystery is now on view among the Hindus and Muslims of India, among the Islamic fundamentalists...
...religion in areas of popular culture like music, books and television is as low as it has ever been (see Madonna, or Gore Vidal's elaborately blasphemous novel called LIVE from Golgotha). At the same time, both religious observance and the press of religious issues (questions of uncertainty, faith, anguish) are rising. Church leaders repeatedly condemn violence done in the name of religious tribalism -- as Orthodox churchmen speak against "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia and as some Muslim leaders criticize the bombing of the World Trade Center. But the zealots press on, shattering the silence, blasting the foundations...
...testimony of three men, one of whom, a convicted criminal, said he saw McMillian hovering over the victim's body after the shooting. Last week, after repeated, vigorous appeals, prosecutors conceded that the witnesses had lied, and McMillian went free, all charges against him dismissed. Was his faith in the judicial system restored? "No, not at all," he said...
Presenting whites or any other racial group as anathema to Islam implies that it is a racially exclusive faith. This flat-out contradicts current global demographics. Muslims are found everywhere, from Bosnia to China. The country with the largest number of Muslims is not Saudi Arabia, it is Indonesia. Anyone who claims that Islam belongs to only one ethnic group ignores the vast majority of Muslims in the world today...