And it's going to be on the candidates to talk about their religion and their heritage in a clear, accurate way, and force the media and force voters to hear that so that these myths and these misconceptions - these inaccurate misconceptions will not be taken into the polling places.
I've also done a lot when I was home secretary, minister of the interior, to ensure that the Muslim community in France could practice their religion and their creed like any other -- any other religion or creed in France.
The persons belonging to minorities have the right to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion and to use their own language in private and in public, freely and without interference or any form of discrimination.
One group of people who should join the fray are Muslim thinkers who live in the West and are hence free to interpret their own religion, and interact with other faiths, in a more generous spirit than tends to be possible in the more conservative atmosphere of most Muslim-majority societies.
Not surprisingly, Republicans were more likely to support Christianity as the official state and national religion with 55 percent supporting the idea for their state and 46 percent in favor of making their Christian faith the official religion of the United States.
Whereas in Greece, after two years of rioting and political incompetence, you got the rise of "anomic breakdown" - social rootlessness and hopelessness - Spain has done the opposite: people have clung to their families, their village roots, their religion (and their secondary religion which is football) - or in the case of the young they have formed placid protest camps.
The Russians hadn't been very nice to us either, driving so many of our grandparents and greatgrandparents from their villages in Eastern Europe and making it difficult for those still there to practice their religion.
On the other hand, Mr Singh is a Sikh, and Sikhs occupy a special position in the subcontinent, because their religion draws on both Islam and Hinduism.
Millions of Muslims have had to live outside the lands of Islam, or have been forced to do so, and many of them are persecuted in their religion.
Taking no chances, these governments also set about crushing political Islam, doing away with politicians or parties that might be encouraged by the example of Iran's Islamic republic to bring together religion and politics in their own pious but secular countries.
In fact, their victims varied in race, popularity, religion and age.
Growing up with a family that has faith and religion in the forefront of their lives.
Some Bradford Muslims insist that such absences are the best way to keep children in touch with their culture and religion.
Zombies, as folklore and religious belief, have their roots in the Vodun religion, most likely in Haiti, where there is a still a strong belief in them.
States and localities got religion in the mid-1970s and began funding their pensions more soundly, but then a long bull market led management and unions to count on super-charged stock-market returns to cover the future costs.
With the rise of Catholic immigration to the country in the nineteenth century, Irish and Italian Americans were attacked for their religion.
The Amish argued that they're bound by rules guided by their religion and the government should never have gotten involved in what amounted to a family or church dispute.
As Libyans draw strength from their faith -- a religion rooted in peace and tolerance -- let there be a rejection of violent extremism, which offers nothing but death and destruction.
Party leader and Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad called for a reformation in the attitude of Muslims toward their religion, warning them that devotion to rigid Islamist practices could thwart the nation's economic development.
The Pew study found that the new Asian immigrants identify themselves, surprisingly, as 22% Protestant and 19% Catholic, but whatever their religion, most of them have in spades what Max Weber called the Protestant work ethic.
Even for non-Americans, those Muslims who are trying to resist Wahhabist efforts to hijack and radicalize their religion have as great an interest as the rest of us in figuring out how the Saudis and others are advancing their subversive agenda.
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Movements whose core value is that faith is a barrier of division or a bomb of destruction have proven exceptional at growing because of their ability to advance core narratives using the language of religion, embed their programs in faith-based institutions and nurture other high-impact leaders who carry out their vision.
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New guidelines published by the Welsh Assembly Government last week said school governors should take in religious views and consider whether their uniform policy interferes with the right to manifest a religion or belief.
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There is a very big Muslim community in Wales, there's a big Jewish community in Wales, and I think we have to remember that the job of politicians is to make Wales a country safe for everybody to live in, whatever their tradition, whatever their background, whatever their language and whatever their religion.
While Muxlim and other sites may be riding a new surge in online religion, targeting users based on their faith isn't new.
He also believes religion plays a big part in changing people's values, and thus their actions in behalf of the environment, he said.
Ms Dudley Edwards brings to life the loyal institutions' mixture of politics, religion and street theatre, which reflects their belief that they have been in the forefront of the conflict of ideology in modern Ireland, and that they still are.
The term has angered many in the Muslim world, who see it as tarring their entire religion and everyone who practices it as fascists.
Even though they form a majority in both countries, many Buddhists share a sense that their nations must be unified and that their religion is under threat.
NPR's Rachel Martin reported this week on the role of religion in the coming election and the struggles in both parties this fall to take their message into the pews.
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