Nor are Muslims the only ones to rebel against secular regimes in the name of their faith.

And they did so with the moral authority of their Buddhist faith.

Their religion, their isolation, their deep respect for their culture and now the principles of their GNH movement all have fostered a sense of gratitude about what they do have.

As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith.

It was not so long ago that the majority of citizens in the Western world had their own unquestioned symbols of collective faith and identity.

In any developed nation, you will find selfless care being provided to the disabled, the dying, the destitute, and the disadvantaged, by people acting under the impulse of their faith.

(b) The legal changes recently put into effect within the Iranian judicial system by which members of religious minorities are no longer obliged to state their religion when applying for a marriage licence

If I'm right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it the intelligentsia unless they are prepared to lie about their beliefs.

Their judgment was clear Muslims had sunk far below what their religion required them to be, and lagged far behind the accomplishments of their ancestors.

The proposal has united Islamic and Jewish leaders in defense of what they see as a threat to their religious freedom, because their religious doctrines prohibit eating meat from animals that are not conscious when killed.

2.6 As a result of the C.R.N. 's refusal to register the association, members of the seven Krishna communities, including the authors, have been deprived of the right to establish spiritual educational institutions to train their priests, making it impossible to support religious doctrine appropriately.

Hindu fundamentalists are, instead, chauvinists, whose religious faith is rooted not in any of Hinduism s profound philosophical and spiritual underpinnings, but in its role as an alternative source of collective, if not national, identity.

LONDON There is a powerful narrative today about how many young European Muslims are susceptible to terrorism, how Islam leads to radicalization, and how Muslims, because of their creed, choose to live in ghettos and therefore create swamps that breed terrorists.