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When Power and Piety Collide : A Critical Analysis of Early Caliphate in Islam

By: Sayed Moustafa al-Qazwini

...In our present era, it is most disturbing for many Muslims and non- Muslims alike to witness the escalating rise in sectarian violence between the Shia and Sunni followers of Islam, particularly in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Some people, including Muslims, ask why the Shia and Sunni are violently murdering each oth...

...e historical and political aspects covered throughout this book may be delicate for some; nonetheless, never is it meant to be as a means to jostle sectarian division - this is far from my intention. I have maintained judicious care in the manner of presenting this work, but it is my belief that in order for Islam and Muslims to go forward in harmony and solidarity, w...

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Sri Guru Granth Sahib

By: Guru Arjan Dev

...f Guru Granth Sahib have an appeal, which is Universal, for it has nothing sectarian in its form and spirit. It puts Truth in a light, which removes... ... ] 3 ] 1 ] 6 ] Saint Parmanand shares with us: “Neither you have given up violence from your mind, nor you have shown any kindness to other beings....

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...uch theological ignorance, and the malicious misrepresentations which in a d ay of such sectarian bigotry and Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 Irving: Prel... ...only one which I could construct, against the evil report which a thousand ignorant and sectarian pens will, in the plenitude of their all- comprehen... ...nd, I believe, no Protestant living could write so long with so little of the spirit of sectarianism, as this worthy old Jesuit has contrived to do.... ...reby to condemn sin in the flesh, and to show by a manifest life that all its power and violence could be held at bay. He lived amongst his enemies ... ...etter than merely gratuitous and arbitrary accommodations, of which the impropriety and violence stare you in the face. Now I maintain that those th... ...f divine faith I follow the thread of all the scriptures, without interruption, without violence, and without artificial reasonings, as any one may s... ...nd fervour, that they are not at any time let or hindered by the impropriety, or by the violence, or by the silliness of their accommodations, nor e... ...found in the scripture, a text in a kind of way favourable; or they themselves did open violence to it, in order that it might stand on their side, n...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

... police brutality, economic embargo, criminalization of activists, electoral violence, repressive laws that aim to curb fundamental rights, and the... ...le entry and temple property, it often results in the eruption of large-scale violence and bloodshed. R 5 : No freedom of choice Although the... ...he major political parties 76 end up holding public office. Also, electoral violence against Dalit candidates is rampant and widespread. Those wh... ... in the ON state. This conclusion is supported based on documentary evidence. Violence against Dalits by the partisan state machinery, particularly ... ...een preaching through their speeches, writings and through others that I am a sectarian and that I instigate sectarian clashes. You should think a l... ...an and that I instigate sectarian clashes. You should think a little whether sectarian differences and enmity was created because of me or because ... ...ces in both Vaishnavism and Saivaism remain the same. [Pagutharivu, 1935] Sectarianism We cannot consider sectarianism to be annihilated if the ... ...ahmin- Non-Brahmin, touchable-untouchable are solved. Who can contradict that sectarianism is rampant, both openly and as an internal consideration ... ...a reformed Hindu religion was needed. If the Brahmins in our country are not sectarian, why do they have a separate Hindu Mahasabha, and apart from...

...tate Oppression— which includes, but is not limited to, authoritarianism, police brutality, economic embargo, criminalization of activists, electoral violence, repressive laws that aim to curb fundamental rights, and the non-implementation of laws that safeguard Dalit rights. The Dalits were considered untouchable for thousands of years by the Hindu society until the Const...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...and overt, a trampling, "no holds barred" ambitiousness, competitiveness, frontier violence-based morality, and proud simple-mindedness - and an om... ...rists in combat? Modern nation-states enshrined the self-appropriated monopoly on violence in their constitutions and ordinances (and in internati... ...ppy, bible-thumping, and dangerously violent nation, the United States of America. Violence breeds counter- violence and profound contempt. You foun... ...k on affirmative action and food stamps, for instance, indeed provoked widespread violence. But such outbursts can hardly be construed to have bee... ...... and the deep isolation Iran, Iraq and Libya have brought on themselves through violence and support for terrorist groups ... The Middle East st... ... power, based on tribal affiliation, regional location, religious denomination and sectarian interests - will survive intact. If the West really as...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ms and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psychic pain or an orgasmic-like... ...ms and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psychic pain or an orgasmic-lik... ... mud.‘ And again on this ‗Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their k... ... quoted somebody from a few hundred years earlier who said that there was violence in the way Islam had been advanced. What he said was true, but it... ...to make money in nearly any endeavor-- pornography, technology, purveying violence in the media, selling guns and many other means of moneymaking. ... ...at God intended that the individual must follow the pronouncements of any sectarian view? If free will is one of those rights, and you freely choose ... ...urse I would disagree with the Pope, but let‘s assume that we accept your sectarian position, why should the sick person who wants to die, or the soc...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...change than that which comes about from some other possible methods, repression or violence for example. To be sure, ideas are transmitted in many wa... ...'' (Ferguson and McHenry 1973, p. 237), as well as ideas related to sex, crime and violence. There is 80 some evidence negating the effectiven... ...forth. An effective forum for personal selling of earnability is the neighborhood sectarian church. The PIC could build relationships with key rel...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...rogramming. Hollywood is often chastised for its indulgence in gratuitous violence and sex. A. No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligen... ...erminal decline; with few exceptions, the "new media" are a hodgepodge of sectarian view and fabricated "news"; the few credible sources of reliable... ...mages or sounds; With few exceptions, the "new media" are a hodgepodge of sectarian views and fabricated "news". The few credible sources of reliabl... ...s of power between the state and its subjects. Laws are the enshrining of violence applied for the "common good" (whatever that is - it is a shiftin... ...der, the Verbal and Emotional Abuse, and the Spousal (Domestic) Abuse and Violence topics on Suite 101 and Bellaonline. Columnist and commentator i...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...er, when a judge demanded an explanation, I saw my own disrespect, my own violence. He was a lanky, stone-like figure, grey-haired, grey-faced, palsi... ...ows, and dragged her to her room. I didn’t wait for an explanation of his violence... S VOICES FROM THE PAST 492 I do my best on the pot a... ...ion—than others whose points of view differ widely from each other in the sectarian denominations. They all claim to be Christians, and interpret the... ...ed there have been more favored times; as a people we are trapped between violence and the mending of that violence; in spite of our be- wilderment w... ...intain the freedom of such persons... I enjoin all people to abstain from violence. I evoke the considerate judgment of mankind... Forever free. ... ... are waging fratricidal car- nage, I perceive that I have been nurtured on violence: I countenance war. As Commander of the military forces, whose in...

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Virgin Soil

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...above everything.” Here Kollomietzev related how he had once caught an old sectarian by the heel somewhere near Moscow, on whom he had looked in, acco... ... to start, that none but cowards could hold back, that a certain amount of violence was just as necessary as the prick of the lancet to the abscess, h... ...o believe in what you say and say what you like! I once happened to hear a sectarian prophet delivering a ser- mon. Goodness only knows what arrant no... ... speak, I seem like a culprit begging for forgiveness. I ought to join the sectarians, although their wisdom is not great … but they have faith, faith... ...pulled the trigger. Something struck him instantly, but with no very great violence … He was lying on his back trying to make out what had happened to...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

..., and literature to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violence of party spirit has been mitigated, and the judg- ment of the wise... ...s History,” pp. 42 and 47. 53 Tocqueville Charles I drove fresh crowds of sectarians every year to the shores of America. In England the stronghold o... ...n with this penal legislation, which bears such striking marks of a narrow sectarian spirit, and of those religious pas- sions which had been warmed b... ...pirit of Liberty. The settlers of New England were at the same time ardent sectarians and daring innovators. Narrow as the limits of some of their rel... ...ceedings, and usurp the censorship of the laws, would in some mea- sure do violence to the passive nature of his authority. The Americans have retaine... ...hings to pass under the color of justice and the sanction of the law which violence alone could im- pose upon them. Chapter VII: Political Jurisdictio... ...ts authority was small and its character temperate, it would not resort to violence till the last extremity, and it would connive at a number of parti... ... The great end of justice is to substitute the notion of right for that of violence, and to place a legal barrier between the power of the government ...

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Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

By: Dr. Martin Luther

... John the Baptist,” says Jesus, “until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the la... ...dom into bondage?” The example of the Galatians, of Anabaptists, and other sectarians in our day bears testimony to the ease with which faith may be l... ...urch is in best shape when Satan assaults it on every side by trickery and violence; and in worst shape when it is at peace. In support of his state- ... ...d not want to be at peace with the pope, the bishops, the princes, and the sectarians, unless they consent to our doctrine. Unity with them would be a... ...ers of errors get angry in turn, and then you have strife and trouble. The sectarians hate us furiously be- cause we will not approve their errors. W ... ...er. In this verse the Apostle continues his attack upon the vain- glorious sectarians. Although this passage may be applied to any work, the Apostle h... ...rightly is to have a glory that cannot be taken away . The glory which the sectarians seek is quite unstable, be- cause it rests in the whim of people...

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House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

... laboratory where his faiths were formed. “Ah, you are as bad as the other sectarians,” she exclaimed; “why do you call your republic a republic? It i... ...ead of their intercourse as though that thread had not been snapped with a violence from which he still reeled. Such facility sickened him—but he told... ...sent in looking on. Selden knew, however, that he could not long keep such violences in equilibrium; and he promised to meet Dorset, the next morning,... ...; and to her murmur of “Ah, we do now,” he retorted with a sudden burst of violence: “I suppose it’s because the letters are to him, then? Well, I’ll ...

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The Author of Beltraffio

By: Henry James

... gathered by the shears and with all nature bleat- ing and braying for the violence. Everything was full of expression for Mark Ambient’s visitor—from... ...hristian and Pagan. I may be a pagan, but I don’t like the name; it sounds sectarian. She thinks me at any rate no better than an ancient Greek. It’s ...

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

... whatever does get into the charmed circle through either proselytism, the violence of enemies, or feminine unchastity, must ultimately pervade it uni... ...o settle upon the Catholic Church in America among an immense confusion of sectarian fragments. Many people, I know, take refuge from the struggle wit... ...en by their predecessors in the disputes of the sixteenth century, by mere sectarian names and the walls of separate meeting places. In the present ti... ...lf, it is something cor- related with the whole fabric of human life. That violence and killing which between animals of the same species is private a... ...ary organi- zation only, has it become possible to conceive of peace. This violence was a necessary phase in human and indeed in all animal developmen... ...of individuals and presently of groups of individuals disappears, personal violence, private war, cut- throat competition, local war, each in turn is ... ...simply law and police which are indeed paid mercenaries from the region of violence, but legislation and literature, teaching and tradition, organized...

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The Art of Writing

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ome curiosity to a player of the big drum – Macaulay. I had in hand the two-volume edition, and I opened at the begin- ning of the second volume. Here... ...re not admitted in his theory, and were only dimly and un- willingly recognised in his experience. Hence the smallness, the triteness, and the inhuman...

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Summer

By: Edith Wharton

... of the fact that a little nucleus of “church- people” had survived in the sectarian wilderness, and resolved to undermine the influence of the ginger... ..., and the fact disconcerted 96 Summer her. She had been ready to give him violence for violence, but this calm acceptance of things as they were left... ...t up. “Well, I guess she won’t dance in this either,” she said with sudden violence; and grasping the blouse in her strong young hands she tore it in ...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

... rebellion for its own sake, an indiscipline and dispo- sition to sporadic violence that made it extremely hard to negotiate any reconciliations or co... ...e labour troubles re- vived, the suffragette movement increased greatly in violence 43 H G Wells and aggressiveness, and there sprang up no less than... ...wars a war of ideas, of material organization against rational freedom, of violence against law; it was a war more copiously discussed than any war ha... ...clusion of much that, I know only too well, has been nar- row and evil and sectarian in your preparation for this sol- emn rite. God is like a preciou... ...l of a Bishop have lost God and fallen into endless differences, disputes, violence, and darkness about insignificant things. They have divided religi...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...c disintegration in a minute particle of bis- muth; it exploded with great violence into a heavy gas of ex- treme radio-activity , which disintegrated... ...rope was only too eager to drop them, and aban- don this fancied refuge of violence. For a time the whole world had been shocked into frank- ness; nea... ...uncharitable existence of the respect- able poor, or the constant personal violence, the squalor and naive passions of the lowest stratum. Yet there w... ...its universal rule. It made no wrangling attacks on the local, racial, and sectarian forms of religious profession that at that time divided the earth... .... It was in sore need of release, and I suppose that nothing less than the violence of those bombs could have released it and made it a healthy world ...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...torm, so inconceivably aw ful and tremendous, that its bursting into full violence was almost a relief. The labouring of the ship in the troubled sea... ...telligence. ‘But suddenly she sickened again; her disease raged with great violence during five weeks, when her eyes and ears were inflamed, suppurate... ...ons. Among them a most excellent Hospital —a quaker establishment, but not sectarian in the great benefits it confers; a quiet, quaint old Library, na... ...r it befriends them, and aids the cause of rational education, without any sectarian or selfish views. It is liberal in all its actions; of kind const... ...e the river boiled and bubbled strangely, and where the force and headlong violence of the current were tremendous. At seven o’clock we reached Dicken...

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