Word: sects
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...Washash, as in countless neighborhoods across Baghdad. Death squads, which tend to move in Opel sedans, are entering what once were tight-knit communities and killing ordinary citizens, apparently to stir up sectarian hatred. The goal: to incite a civil war that each side hopes will give its sect dominance over the other. In Baghdad, a city of more than 5 million, there were at least 880 violent deaths last month, according to Faiq Amin Bakr, director of the Baghdad central morgue. (In New York City, with a population of more than 8 million, the total number of homicides...
...kind of chaos that may lie in Iraq's future, whether or not U.S. soldiers stay on in force. "If the U.S. troops leave, we will have a civil war," says a Sunni ex-army officer who prefers not to reveal his name. "It will go on until one sect wipes out the other...
...graduation ceremony. In another case concerning the the role of religion in public life, Roberts fared better, helping prevent a public school from barring a religious group from meeting on its grounds after school. Upcoming Cases: One involves whether the government can prohibit a small Brazilian-American religious sect from importing a hallucinogenic tea (and controlled substance) for use in rituals...
Similarly, for Mendy Greenberg in Anchorage, Alaska, the bar mitzvah is a meaningful event. Mendy’s parents are members of the Lubavitcher Hasidic sect of Judaism, and they believe that part of their mission in life is to reach out to less observant Jews, a task that begins, for Mendy, on the day he becomes a bar mitzvah...
...religious conservatives to introduce creationist theories to public-school curriculums. A case in the lower courts concerns whether the state of Iowa can fund a religious-fellowship program in Iowa prisons. One case next term revolves around whether the federal government can prohibit a small Brazilian-American religious sect from importing a hallucinogenic tea--officially classified as a controlled substance--that it uses in rituals. The current court has rejected school-prayer schemes that are not purely voluntary, and it has put restrictions on school vouchers. But if another moderate leaves the court, that could change...