Ironically, it seems that theocratic theory in Iran has led to anti theocracy.

The clerics openly defy the state.

More importantly, Iran s Shia clerics were both organized and politically active in a way that Pakistan s Sunni clergy have not been.

Part of the problem is the reaction by religious leaders to the immunization program.

Clerics know that if Khamenei weakens, Ahmadinejad s circle can manipulate widespread anti clerical resentment and exclude them from power.

The conservative clerics, who had not investigated the case, demanded the death penalty.

Clerics realize that the government wants to play ball.

In 1932, it was embraced by clerico fascist Austria, under Engelbert Dollfuss.

Neither moved the country s ruling mullahs.

Many youth, and even religious old men, visit these shops to get songs of their choice uploaded.

As a clergyman, you can imagine how out of place I feel.

Citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan (except religious organization's ministers) cannot appear in public places in religious attire.

They were mostly quashed by the clerics who held ultimate power.

Through thebonyads, the mullahs have their say in most production and trade deals.

He might also oppose Khamenei directly, portraying himself as a patriotic anti clerical figure.

This extended even to members of the clergy, who came together to call for unity in flood relief efforts.

Right? And immediately, he got into trouble with the local clergy who said, you can't make a vacuum.

The Ulema Council, a group of influential clerics, has given its backing as well.

Its mullahs bicker constantly, seeming to reflect the country s broader cleavages.

All of this does not mean that there are necessarily radicals and moderates within the clerical regime in Teheran.

Anti American sentiment is one of the strongest cards those wretched clerics hold.

The seals were found in a large burial mound that was believed to have been built for wealthy or religious people.

These concerns were reflected in the fact that the Society of Combatant Clergy, a conservative body, was unable to endorse Ahmadinejad s candidacy.

Wahhabi clerics, for example, call for jihad against the Shia heretics promising the rewards of heaven.

Because there is no clear punishment for downloading un Islamic articles from the Internet, the primary court of appeal asked clerics to comment.

Moreover, the middle class of merchants quarrelled frequently with the clergy, without any intervention from the king.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonas and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it for they repented at the preaching of Jonas and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

On the one hand, it would condemn hundreds of millions to live in repressive Iranian or Taliban style theocracies.

Iran s 1979 revolution did away with the pro American, undemocratic regime of the Shah, bringing in its place the anti American, undemocratic regime of the clerics.

State prosecutors alleged that the party was trying to Islamicize the country and ultimately introduce theocracy.

However, this does not necessarily mean that Turkey will become an Islamic, must less an Islamist, country.

His populist rhetoric and religious fundamentalism have alienated a large section of conservative pragmatist clerics and their supporters.

This explains why the Vatican chooses to describe the pedophiliac transgression of its clergy as sins rather than crimes.

The mutual hostility of Ahmadinejad and the clerical class offers the Supreme Leader the best of both worlds.

Over the last four years, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly tried to undermine the ruling clerics control over political and policy decisions.

In those conditions, a group of Kurdish religious men formed a political organization on the bases of Islamic and Kurdish nationalistic ideas.

The Buddhist clergy was seen, not without reason, as hidebound and oppressive. Chinese Communism promised modernization.

WASHINGTON, DC Iran s clerical regime governs by a simple formula he who is the most frightening, wins.

There is no room for religious law and yet since 2006 militias have been attacking gay people with the religious backing of a number of Islamic clerics.

And on Thursday, 13 September, religious leaders gathered in Kandahar to call for calm and peaceful protests over the film.

Positions 2 Prefects, 4 Bourgmestres, 1 Lesser admin, 2 Military, 2 Clergy, 5 Others.

The Sunni clerics who have just declared a jihad against the Iranian regime, Hezbollah, and its sectarian allies are the voice of millions across the Muslim world.