CPA-appointed officials could legitimately rule on religious matters.
Mr Erdogan's enemies claim that AK's moves to trim the army's powers are not to do with its European Union aspirations but with a desire to cement religious rule.
They played a big role in precipitating the elections (which were originally scheduled for November 4th) by threatening to intervene after claiming that the country was sliding into religious rule.
They called for a parliamentary inquiry, but quickly piped down when the general staff hinted that Virtue, which is accused of seeking to introduce religious rule in Turkey, might suffer the same fate as its predecessor, the Welfare party, which was banned.
The film's conclusion is as inescapable as it is well documented: Adherents to this totalitarian political movement are determined to destroy the Free World, whose nations, values and institutions are seen as impediments to the global triumph of the Islamists' preferred, Taliban-style religious rule.
The generals, who ejected Turkey's first Islamist-led government from office in 1997, would resist a new one led by Virtue if indeed it could escape a ban from the Constitutional Court on vague charges that, like its predecessor, the Welfare party, it wants to impose religious rule.
When Obama offered to soften the rule last year, religious groups said it wasn't enough.
During Suharto's rule, discussion of religious, class and ethnic grievances was suppressed.
These grievances have been felt for a long time, but under Mr Suharto's rule open discussion of religious and ethnic disputes was prohibited, forcing the issues underground, and perhaps hardening attitudes.
Conservative awkward squaddie Peter Bone presents a Ten Minute Rule Bill aimed at protecting religious groups like the Brethren from losing charitable status.
The latest rules do not specify a work-around for individual business owners who have religious objections to the rule.
Yet as a rule the success of a new religious movement depends not so much on the mystical visions of its founder as on the executive energy of its first evangelist.
"Today's proposed rule does nothing to protect the religious liberty of millions of Americans, " said Kyle Duncan, general counsel, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a law firm representing several of the companies.
"Freedom is not only about majority rule, but ensuring that women, religious minorities and intellectual dissenters are able to flourish without fear, " he added.
According to Mr Mogra, these include - respect for other people and the rule of law, freedom of expression and religious practice, participation in the democratic system and valuing education.
Syrians before the Assads lived in relative religious and ethnic harmony under largely Sunni rule.
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While Indonesia has made great progress in consolidating a stable, democratic government after five decades of authoritarian rule, it nonetheless has significant difficulty with national religious tolerance.
But the regime of Bashar Assad has been quick to exploit public nervousness over religious differences to secure acquiescence in his continued rule.
Ms. Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for championing democracy, has been largely silent on the violence between rival religious and ethnic groups in the country, apart from saying rule of law would improve the environment.
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From Paris and London to Karachi, to Ramallah to Teheran, U.S. officials are seeking ways to encourage those who respect liberal values of the rule of law, the emancipation of women, freedom of religion and of religious dissent, to speak out against the forces of global jihad.
Such violations and obstacles include, as well as torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, summary and arbitrary executions, disappearances, arbitrary detentions, all forms of racism, racial discrimination and apartheid, foreign occupation and alien domination, xenophobia, poverty, hunger and other denials of economic, social and cultural rights, religious intolerance, terrorism, discrimination against women and lack of the rule of law.
Judges have tossed out some of the cases on the grounds that it is too soon to rule on the plaintiffs' claims that the administration is forcing them to violate their religious beliefs.
The majority of rebel factions in Syria have religious leanings to some degree, and many of them call for some sort of rule by Islamic law in a post-Assad era.
He is now competing against his cousin Ghazan Khan, a political newcomer whose affiliation with a hard-line religious party, Jamaat-i-Islami, could be the exception to the rule when it comes to party ideology trumping family ties.
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What the law will do is to ask people to consider making religious services accessible to disabled people as a matter of course - it is not a cast iron rule that every church, mosque, synagogue or temple has to have a wheelchair ramp.
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