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The error I wish to report is not Frances Russell's (Coalition crisis continues to reverberate, Oct. 27) but that of political scientist Michael Behiels, whom she quotes. Typical of most academics, he regards anyone who's not NDP as a right-winger. He says "[Stephen Harper]'s approach to politics and governance is shaped by his Christian fundamentalism.
No, I'm more inclined to believe the Australian political scientist who, writing for Reformed Perspective magazine about two years ago, said Stephen Harper is to the left of Australia's Labour Party, and added "If he were in the United States, he'd be a Clintonian Democrat."
Janet Keeping in her article Don't ban burkas (Oct. 23) quoted "religious freedom" as part of the basis for her argument to not ban the full burkas (I am referring ...
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...Harkat via teleconference from the United Kingdom. Professor Joffé has provided reports in ... Harkat furthered that the money was in the States, and he would be transferring the money. Contacts ... leadership, past reputation and religious objectives, material support given through financi..., especially supporting Muslim fundamentalism and one who fights jihad. At the time of the S...
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In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, members and leaders of the Muslim community in this country have worked to educate Canadians about the difference between Islam and the beliefs of extremist groups exploiting the tenets of Islam to suit their violent agendas. Many have been outspoken about the need to grapple with isolated pockets of extremism. In Manitoba, Hamad Salih, president of the Sudanese Human Rights Association, noted yesterday that work now extends to the home, to parents, who, with local leaders, must show the youth the difference between the teachings of the Qur'an and the warped ideology of the religious extremists. Vigilance for any hint of destructive fundamentalism must be heightened, he said.
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Security and insecurity are complex concepts that states have problem in defining them in different conditions. Complexity of the concepts comes out of security dilemma which states face when they seek to recognize enemy and scale of threat that the enemy may cause. Events of September the 11th formed a new condition in which United States faced the security dilemma that had not risen from a specific country but the enemy that was not recognizable and did not behave like states. United States attempted to solve the mentioned security dilemma by defining enemy, its threats and the new condition after events of September the 11th. This article, in order to explain the security dilemma of the United States after events of the September the 11th, is written in two parts; the first part is t...
... enemy; in other words, who is enemy? Religious radicalism was the enemy that United States focuse... referring to growing of religious fundamentalism which must be prevented. Religious fundamentalism ...
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He's to meet privately with Gerard Bouchard and Charles Taylor, the chairmen of Quebec's reasonable-accommodation commission. And later he's to give an accommodation-themed speech at a Montreal university.
I do know that some people in Quebec don't want religious symbols like the hijab," [Hamza Yusuf] said Thursday, travelling by train from Toronto. "They're following the model France has, of what some people call secular fundamentalism.
"Reasonable accommodation has to come from the middle ground; it can't come from the extremes. And the idea of not having the hijab in any public space is an extreme. It's like asking not to be served by someone who's black, which used to be part of the law in the United States."
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... appears that the wave that carried the religious right to power in the United States has crested. T... religious extremes, from religious fundamentalism to the equally unbending activist atheism of Richa...
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The purpose of this article is to explore the effects of counter-terrorism on Canadian democracy and multiculturalism. The democratic and multicultural nature of Canadian society has raised a number of questions about the ability of individual rights and group identities to prosper within the confines of counter-terrorist legislation and actions.
... terrorism presents a tremendous threat to states around the world, both authoritarian and democrati... of consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. "Jihad's warriors", acc... around the world", especially in the United States who, before 9/11, never experienced violenc...
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...Harkat via teleconference from the United Kingdom. Professor Joffé has provided reports in ... Harkat furthered that the money was in the States, and he would be transferring the money. Contacts ... leadership, past reputation and religious objectives, material support given through financi..., especially supporting Muslim fundamentalism and one who fights jihad. At the time of the S...
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The World Tourism Conference which was held at Manila,Philippines in October 1980, considered the nature of tourism in all its aspects and the role tourism is bound to play in a dynamic and vastly changing world. The Manila Declaration on World Tourism argues that there are many constraint on the development of tourism, and groups of Nations should determine and study these constraints, and adopt measures aimed at removing their negative influence. It has been observed that violent crimes, civil unrest, kidnapping for ransom and terrorism to mention some, are enemies of tourism in Nigeria. Regrettably, the security warnings declared by Nation States and International Organizations against the danger posed by these constraints on tourism have been misconstrued as negative propaganda in N...
... alarm raised by the Department of States, United State of America and the need to deploy all availa... Violence in Delhi, Punjab and Assam and religious riots in Hyderabad have adversely affected domesti...Indeed, violent fundamentalism and extremism in the name of religion has grown an...
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..., getting together when he visited the United States. He wrote a number of very thoughtful artic... rights incidents stemmed from Israel's religious interpretation of Jewish history, which led it to ... (Pluto Press, 1994), and Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel (Pluto Press, 1994), written with Norton...