Word: worshipping
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...Pillars of Islam be engraved in its own monument and placed next to those Ten Commandments? I highly doubt it. America's hypocrisy on the matter of religion is outrageous. And until that changes, religion should remain in our hearts and in our places of worship. So yes, he should be dealt with accordingly by the law. Anyone who "sneaks" the Ten Commandments into the rotunda of a courthouse under the cover of night is not standing up for what he believes in. He's breaking the law and being a coward about it at that. Antoinette Longstreet Burlington...
...sisters, Amman is the ideal place to go into exile; the majority of Jordanians worship Saddam, and are likely to give his daughters the full privileges of Arab protection. In downtown Amman, a reporter seeking public reaction to the TV interviews was admonished by a shopkeeper, "We don't talk about our guests with outsiders." The sisters and their nine children are housed in one of the King's guesthouses in the royal enclave of Dabouq but are expected eventually to move to a private home...
...reconquer the country, but to resume our rightful place." The strong turnout by local and regional dignitaries at the mosque's dedication ceremony earlier this month suggests that the citizens of Granada have accepted that their city's 15,000 Muslims have as much right to a place of worship as the Christians whose churches now dominate the ancient Moorish quarter of Albaicín, where the new mosque is located. But tolerance is a relatively new arrival. Twenty-two years ago, when a group of Granada's Muslim converts launched their project with the purchase of a vacant plot...
...verse 007." It is not really their fault, says the leader of one mission, contending, "It should not be dangerous for a person to move to a different country and, to use the words of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 'manifest his belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.'" Yet a classroom scene at Columbia International University in South Carolina reported last year by Mother Jones magazine demonstrates an unnerving ethical elasticity. "Did Jesus ever lie?" asks a lecturer. His class replies, "No." "But did Jesus raise his hand and say, 'I swear to tell the truth...
...Chinese public has long been prone to worship leaders who appear even infinitesimally different from dictators. Take, for example, the public's veneration of Premier Zhou Enlai toward the end of the Cultural Revolution. That reverence had much more to do with disillusionment with Mao than evidence that Zhou was truly another kind of leader. As the French politician L?on Blum once said, "I believe it because I hope for it." The Chinese public might mistake benevolence from their ruler for democratic values and might confuse administrative reforms with real political reforms?but the leadership will...