Word: moralization
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Indeed, the murshidas' role is in part to protect Moroccans from the moral dangers that modernity brings. Islamic Affairs Minister Ahmed Toufiq told TIME: "The world is wide open. We have satellite TV in the highest villages of the Atlas mountains, and we can't escape these alien influences. All we can do is find an immunity within the body...
...revival of the graft case has spurred some Zuma supporters to hysterical defenses of their man. ANC Youth League President Julius Malema even declared that he would "kill" for Zuma. The power struggle between his supporters and those of Mbeki has been immensely damaging to a party whose moral authority as a liberation movement has plunged in its era of governance, buffeted by corruption scandals, an inability to tackle rising crime and unemployment, and the unseemly spectacle of some its core members and backers becoming billionaires while much of the country remains mired in poverty. At the weekend, former...
...ruling movement are becoming more blurred," De Klerk told the Cape Town Press Club in June. The "rights and values" which he and Mandela enshrined in the country's 1994 constitution, "are under severe pressure," he said. It says something for how far the ANC has fallen from the moral high ground that in today's South Africa, a former apartheid ruler can re-invent himself as a defender of the public interest...
What They're Watching in the Middle East A syrupy Turkish soap opera has millions of viewers across the Arab world hooked--and their clerics seething. Religious leaders from Bahrain to the West Bank have condemned Noor for being "replete with wickedness, evil and moral collapse," in the words of Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti. The show has drawn ire over its portrayal of egalitarian marriage--the heroine's husband supports her career in fashion--and characters who drink and date. Despite the criticism, 3 million to 4 million people in Saudi Arabia are tuning in daily...
...further extraordinary-rendition flights had passed through British territory. But Hamilton's committee insists that Britain can no longer take at face value America's assurances that it is not torturing prisoners and, in a clear reference to Diego Garcia, says the U.K. now bears a "legal and moral obligation" to make certain that no British territory abets American rendition flights or interrogations...