Sentences with phrase «war against these innocent»
The recommendations were immediately attacked by critics ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the panel of waging «war against innocent American citizens,» to, perhaps more surprisingly, The Wall Street Journal, which called the commission's proposal «an example of enforcement mentality run amok.»
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«Instead of being humane in their approach, it's as if their new regional director feels he's waged war against these innocent cats,» says Ricci.
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The network would make it possible to fight back against those who «steal intellectual property and private data, sow division and obscure bad behavior, slander and defame the innocent, prey on the weak and plans the seeds for total darkness in the event of all - out war.»
Muslim scholars said the key part of this passage, which forms the backbone of Islam's «just war» theory, is that, while self - defense is allowed, violent aggression, especially against innocents, is a grave sin.
In his newly penitent state, Garcés «gave the brethren detailed information of the cruelties committed against the innocent natives in peace and in war.»
True Christians were not permitted to serve in the military or otherwise participate in war or even commit violent acts until the concept of the «just war» — fighting only when doing so was required to protect the innocent against an aggressor — was developed hundreds of years after the death of Christ.
The perpetrators ignore Islam's absolute prohibitions against suicide and the taking of innocent life, even in war.
The war on terrorism is a war against al - Qaeda, not Islam, he says, and the reason for the war is our foes» clear aggression against innocent people, not their religious convictions.
The Vietnam war was not only a gross miscalculation, politically and militarily, but a moral wrong inflicted by a massive use of cruel weapons forbidden by international law, mostly against poor and innocent civilians.
They did not prioritize defense against armed attack, and certainly did not define just cause in terms of such self - defense, reflecting Augustine's conception of just war [as one in which] a Christian might justifiably use force to protect an innocent neighbor against harm.
The MP explained that he was on the side of the «innocent» people being caught up in the violence and encouraged a response that would show the UK's intolerance of such behaviour: «The only way of stopping someone who continues to be violent, destructive, murderous and surgical in the way that they carry out their actions against innocent people is to stop them being able to have the capabilities to be able to do it and I think that's what we're targeting and I would hope that the Prime Minister and the President of the United States will be targeting the weapons of war and by doing so taking away the ability to wage war.»
After a long and expensive trial, the Special Court for Sierra Leone will finally give its verdict on whether former Liberian president Charles Taylor is guilty or innocent of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
caste your mind backs, we bombed the Bosnian serbs and the Serbia itself which killed over 3028 innocent men, women and children with cluster bombs etc all in the name of preventing genocide in the Bosnian and Kosovo civil wars, are the same people who supported the illegal bombing of the Bosnian Serbian forces and Serbia itself against the bombing of fascist, genocidal isis, with the exception of George Galloway and tony benn I think you are, maybe I am wrong, am i.
We will strive to ensure that no victim is left behind, including the 219 Chibok girls who have, since their abduction in April 2014, served as a global symbol of the war against Boko Haram and a reminder of the horrors that it has inflicted on innocent Nigerians.
«We want to alert Biafrans, men and women of good conscience across the globe that the Federal Government of Nigeria has decided to kill yet another innocent person in Anambra State in the name of holy war against IPOB.
In «Regeneration Through Violence,» his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.