Word: heterodoxical
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...Those who have the most to lose are the millions of Indonesians who are either non-Muslim or belong to heterodox Islamic sects. In 2005, the nation's ruling clerics prohibited interfaith marriage and prayer. The Indonesia Ulema Council also renewed an edict deeming heretical the Islamic sect Ahmadiyah, which claims up to 500,000 members. In the past year, several Ahmadiyah mosques have been forcibly closed or destroyed by mobs, as have dozens of Christian house churches. Separately, a Muslim cleric in East Java was jailed for preaching in Indonesian, as opposed to the normal Arabic. In West Java...
Those speaking ill of any foreign policy that creates more terrorists would have to check their priorities. Stopping the Darfur genocide would mean giving assistance to black heterodox Muslim Darfuris while beating back Arab militias who are quietly seen by many in the Arab world as engaging in a noble holy war. If the war in Iraq has boosted the number of terrorists, a Western-led or Western-encouraged intervention in Sudan would be a bonanza. Osama bin Laden, who once operated in Sudan with the government’s blessing, has said as much...
...hopes to offer Harvard students an interdisciplinary look at the “diverse and heterodox intellectual traditions of Western and non-Western Marxism,” Jeyifo wrote in an e-mail...
...aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001, three of America's most prominent leftist intellectuals have weighed in with their decidedly heterodox thoughts on the events of that...
...more than 20 years ago by Peter Plagens' "Sunshine Muse." But until now no institution has taken on the daunting task of mounting an exhibition that surveys the visual culture of California in relation to a century's worth of social changes in that huge, dynamic and almost crazily heterodox state. That is what the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has tried to do in a mammoth show that opened last month: "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000." It involves some 800 works in just about every imaginable medium, set forth by a team...