Sentences with phrase «living as a minority»

About a quarter of the world's Muslims live as minorities in places where they must practice Islam as «just a religion,» to use a Western phrase.

The Fiqh Council Fatwa needs improvement because it says that only where Muslims live as minorities do they have to respect laws so long as there is no conflict for obedience to God.

Whilst David Cameron may become Prime Minister next year with an overall Conservative majority in the Commons, any administration he forms will start its life as a minority government in the House of Lords.

People who identify as lesbian, gay or any other orientation or gender identity may find that the social stigma of living as a minority is a source of stress or anxiety.

He supported this principle with a discussion of relevant international law which «recognises the entitlement of indigenous peoples, living as a minority in hitherto hostile legal environments, to enjoy respect for, and protection of, their particular property rights».

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As a white female, it would be inappropriate and ignorant for me to use my voice speak out against minority social movements like the Black Lives Matter movement, the Gay Liberation movement, or Latino Social movements.

There, it is true that the arbitrage gains arising from free trade between economic zones of vastly different living standards without trade balance equilibrium and being captured by a small minority are correctly viewed as un-earned gains and giving rise to social tensions which could easily degenerate into political tensions.

If it is right to judge Islam as a whole on the basis of the barbarism of jihadi groups, how should we explain — and encourage — the actions of Kurdish Muslims and many other Muslims who are standing up to the jihadists and paying with their lives to protect Christian and Yazidi minorities in Iraq?

It is sad that the minority of people are making it harder to live as the consitution has been written.

I'm certain that had he lived to see a gay rights movement he would have been marching right alongside them as he did for minorities, the poor and oppressed, because it would have been a civil rights matter for him; a matter of justice for, as he said, ALL of God's people.

It will eventually destroy innocent human lives (such as unborn children and religious minorities) and bring strifes among people one way or another because of the shedding of innocent blood.

His petition, signed by 750,000 in 143 countries, urges that the rights of Christians and other minorities as citizens of Middle Eastern countries be recognised, and that they have access to «dignified» living conditions.

Indeed, these are good examples — people are perceiving Islam as some minority — yet harmless ideology that espouses nice values, it doesn't all people need do is look at the UK, France etc today — do the research — the people in these countries are already seeing a decline in their quality of life as Islam grows, why should a person tolerate something that is a threat to them I often ask.

As to the, «where are the intermediate forms» argument that has occasionally been put forth in a slightly less ignorant manner, there are a variety of reasons why every intermediate form isn't in the fossil record, the most significant being that of the trillions of organism that have ever lived on the planet, only the extreme minority get fossilized.

Second, while many people may desire a religious option that offers concrete answers to life's problems, there will be a minority of well - educated people who will find new - paradigm Christianity to be simplistic in its affirmation of Jesus as the exclusive path to truth.

Catholics live in these societies as minorities, contributing what is viewed as being an essentially foreign, although often valuable, perspective, and in fact, this is often salutary for the Church in these societies, acutely conscious as Catholics in these situations tend to be that they are watched.

What would this look like for this minority view to also become known, by religious and secular people alike, as the most life - giving view?

Brzezinski has said: «The world can be seen as divided into two mankinds, living in two distinct cultures: the rich minority and poor majority.

Genesis also affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature, rather than television «s view that young, white, unmarried males are somehow given a position of power considerably «above» females, older people, and minorities.

Make life intolerable for the society at large so as to compel it to attend to a grievance that a minority finds unbearable?

ADF described Christians living in India as an «ill - treated minority», adding there are reports of religious minorities in some parts of the country suffering violence on a «daily» basis.

As a minority group living in a hostile culture, members of the early Christian churches were in no position to identify the bestowal of God's grace and blessing with national peace and prosperity.

Africans, Hispanics, Asians, women, homosexuals, homeless, religious minorities, agnostics, doubters, uneducated, intellectuals, poor, and almost any other category of social life can, under certain conditions, be regarded as failing the appropriate tests of true membership in a society.

In your role and life as a Christian progressive, how do you see women's and minority issues?

Some were uneasy lest the statement slight concerns for justice — such as employment, majority / minority rights, or Third World development — in favor of a major stress on environmental or life - style issues related to energy.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

This is evidenced by the fact that in industry, schools, and many other aspects of community life, a racial minority will be tolerated as long as it is a very minor minority.

as for «branding ourselves a suffering minority»... while its true that religious freedom in America has made life a lot easier here for atheists than in many other countries around the globe, pause to think... 80 % of Americans say they believe in God.

Both Obama, the nation's first black president, and Romney, a Mormon, have found that their shared status as members of minority groups and political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology «Faith and Race in American Political Life.»

The life of a minority is worth at least as much as yours so why should you have one single benefit more than them?

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.

Elsewhere «marginalisation» can ultimately lead to lesser job prospects, lower quality of life due to being a minority or ultimately murder and death as a result of the colour of your skin.

Just as there is nothing palatial about Selhurst Park, there was nothing regal about the Villans» performance yesterday nor was there anything noble about the behaviour of the minority of fans who showed a complete lack of respect for the minute's silence in memory of the ninety - six people who lost their lives at Hillsborough twenty - five years ago.

We live in a culture in which only a minority of children experience the benefits of breastfeeding as nature intended.

Heather, I live in Spain, I am a childbirth educator and gave birth at home here 3 years ago and just wanted to say that home - birth in this country is absolutely a tiny minority of the population, with the same kind of societal attitudes as North America, so this ad has created a big stir as you can imagine!!!

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

In fact, states could have more minority seats under a proportional system, as they aren't limited to just grouping people who live near each other.

With living standards stagnating as a wealthy minority grow ever richer, the claim that «a rising tide lifts all boats» is perhaps less convincing than it once was.

As the Minority in Parliament, we are in strong solidarity with the labour front in pressurising the NPP government to ensuring that the liberties of the Ghanaian worker is not infringed upon, while cooperating with all efforts targeted at improved cost of living and the dignity of the Ghanaian workforce.

While it looks good on paper, we haven't truly made the advancements we think and quality of life for minorities and the poor are just as bad.

In a statement they issued, the minority said that «we find it totally unjustifiable and unacceptable that the Deputy Minister would label the entire people of the three Northern Regions who he says he has lived with for 27 years, as unreasonable people, accomplished and persistent liars, people with a high propensity for perpetrating fraud, people who all the time use these fraudulent acts to steal money from the state.»

«As opposed to advocating for a more level playing field for those off all religions and none by stating thatChristian Churches have a unique position in British society and a particularly strong claim to be heard, he is supporting the increasingly strident lobbying of a minority of Christians for more influence in our public life and greater privilege for those with Christian beliefs.

Appealing to the north of England, working class voters and ethnic minorities with an aspirational agenda was at the heart of this launch, with a focus on «bread and butter issues such as the cost of living,» as well as ensuring environmental problems aren't merely seen as a concern of the left.

The feds are threatening to nix bomb - sniffing dogs that patrol Big Apple airports and train stations as a cost - cutting measure — potentially risking the lives of millions of New Yorkers, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned.

«It's clear he would rather talk about gondolas than living wages for the mostly minority and female workers who help these incredible New Yorkers live a fuller life as part of the community,» the group said.

Twice as many ethnic minority women live in poverty in the UK than white women, according to a report by the Fawcett Society.

Politicians need to recognise that what they say can have a very dangerous impact on the lives of the minorities they treat as outcasts.»

Well another politician who stands by a minority (the wealthy) and not the majority (the working class) when over 72 % of the public agrees we should bring back the wealth tax so we don't have to lay off Goverment employees and cut back on services such as education fire fighters law enforcement then we are not living in a Democracy.

Bloomberg administration officials have characterized the sex ed mandate as an effort to improve the lives of minority teenagers.

They include Chi Onwurah, the former minister for culture and the digital economy, who wrote that it was «statistically interesting to say the least» that Labour's leader had made life difficult for two of the very few minority ethnic female MPs; and Pat Glass, who resigned as shadow education secretary in June two days after being appointed, in protest over Corbyn's leadership.