Word: sacredness
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"When religious institutions exclude women from their hierarchies and rituals, the inevitable implication is that females are inferior ... Religious groups should stand up for a simple ethical principle: any person's human rights should be sacred, and not depend on something as earthly as their genitals."
Non-Muslim Malaysians worry that the vehement opposition to the Allah ruling reflects a growing Islamization in a multireligious society. Last October a Shari'a court sentenced a Muslim woman who drank beer to be caned in public; in another incident, in November, Muslims enraged over the construction of a...
The violence that broke out during the protest on Dec. 27 - the mourning day of Ashura, the most sacred date on the Shi'ite calendar - was seen by many experts as a possible turning point in the increasingly bitter struggle between the hard-line regime and the opposition green movement...
Brazil may get some "reciprocal" satisfaction from tweaking Americans every now and then (and deservedly so). But this protracted travesty is a reminder that Brazil is no more immune from ugly double standards than America is - even when it comes to a bond as sacred as father and son.
Debating Afghanistan Re Joe Klein's "The Mystery of the Surge" [Nov. 23]: President Obama stated unequivocally that victory over the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan is essential to U.S. national security. If this is true, why agonize over the corruption of Hamid Karzai's regime or the ability...