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"pluralism" Definitions
  1. the existence of many different groups of people in one society, for example people of different political or religious beliefs, or people from different ethnic groups
  2. the belief that it is possible and good for different groups of people to live together in peace in one society
  3. (usually disapproving) the fact of having more than one job or position at the same time, especially in the Church

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If these countries are not able to find a way to break the hold of sectarian misgovernance and find their way to political pluralism, religious pluralism, gender pluralism and education pluralism, their people stand no chance in the 21st century, especially once Mother Nature starts to really hammer them.
The question of whether pluralism and security are indeed in tension, or whether pluralism in fact enhances security, is one that people around the world have long grappled with.
" Instead, she argues, American life is characterized by "pluralism.
In the long run, pluralist societies will accept more pluralism.
The Economist: Many problems you identify are about managing pluralism.
Liberal pluralism remains in better fettle in the Czech Republic.
How does a free society which values pluralism find security?
Trump rejects both freedom and pluralism, promising security in return.
There is a conservative way to embrace pluralism and diversity.
In a world of radical pluralism, we are all Jews.
Social controls were seen as necessary and pluralism as dangerous.
In its strongest form, pluralism is a theory of selfhood.
But pluralism may protect neighborly life a little too well.
S. Council on Religion and Pluralism, an independent advocacy group.
Unfortunately, pluralism and tolerance are precisely what makes diplomacy tick.
Again, pluralism is the path to peace in a diverse world.
And not all threats to pluralism are of the same order.
First-order issues are rule of law, pluralism and academic freedom.
Liberal democratic societies by definition have a pluralism of value systems.
In Pluralism #6 you list the names of women and girls.
So if you're living in a multiethnic society, you trash pluralism.
With the democracy, pluralism, feminism, equality and unity that they hate.
They put an emphasis instead on political pluralism, dissent and diversity.
Pluralism is our true source of strength at home and abroad.
But she reiterated that philosophical pluralism was an important value, too.
The best future politics puts collaborative pluralism, weaving, at the center.
Speakers at Reason Rally advance admirable goals: pluralism, reproductive rights, tolerance.
It leads to a greater ability to invent and pluralism is good.
Pluralism in the sense the centre intends is not a new idea.
But only a few in Labour evince an appetite for such pluralism.
The good news is that pluralism and truly liberal values remain popular.
"Disappointing move and huge blow to media pluralism in Georgia," she tweeted.
It also celebrates an inclusive pluralism that the city struggles to uphold.
Freedom of the arts is necessarily premised on internationality, pluralism, and dialogue.
So general claims always risk doing damage to this pluralism and difference.
Léger was an enemy of cultural pluralism and religious identity, Miller says.
You can say it is a revival of pluralism, of pluralist discourse.
There was ostensibly no God, no private property and no political pluralism.
In accepting pluralism, we will truly live up to our constitutional values.
" He wants his city to be a "model for democracy and pluralism.
The U.A.E. goes to enormous lengths to advertise its commitment to pluralism.
This is democratic pluralism, in which interest groups compete to shape society.
Pluralism is not a secondary or a decorative aspect of that idea.
It is pluralism by way of Plato's cave, in a grocery store.
They're fighting, they say, for feminism, for ethnic pluralism, and for the land.
Isn't it about time we give pluralism a chance instead of more Balkanization?
What we have in America is so amazing — a pluralistic society with pluralism.
I want to push you on the idea that this is just pluralism.
In the most troubling passage of the book, Bacevich breezily questions pluralism itself.
In every case, the debate is framed as one of pluralism versus security.
The Awami League prides itself on being the party of pluralism in Bangladesh.
We should never allow the pluralism of ideas to turn us into enemies.
Religious pluralism requires accommodation of the demure as well as the less inhibited.
"Requiem for a Young Poet" (1967-69) goes further connecting pluralism and death.
Pluralism today is creating a new sort of person, especially among the young.
It is the latest broadside against pluralism under the increasingly autocratic Mr. Orban.
Pluralism and democracy have proven to be the most resilient systems over time.
Tunisia's education system taught values consistent with American ideals of pluralism and openness.
Our diversity, embrace of pluralism and democratic institutions makes the United States unique.
It's that sense of pluralism I've often missed in MoMA's permanent collection galleries.
The reformists debated whether their opponents might be rationally persuaded to tolerate greater pluralism.
Some do so because they have internalized the values of democratic tolerance and pluralism.
William Galston is the author of Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy.
But it remains the first principle of the more potable forms of pluralism. ♦
After Smith won the nomination, the Democrats were clearly the party of ethnic pluralism.
Anderson proposed that, actually, pluralism of value wasn't the fuzz but the thing itself.
Jogging, martial arts and academic ballet are just part of the cultural pluralism here.
Cultural pluralism is as important as tax policy in the two states' effect on America.
Activists who call for pluralism are regularly jailed and criticism of China's authoritarian system silenced.
It causes me immense grief to see that pluralism fall apart along with Sur's buildings.
A growing Muslim population is pushing the country towards a new kind of religious pluralism.
This is more or less how conservatives have resisted the march of pluralism in general.
A person who is firmly rooted can go out and enjoy the adventure of pluralism.
Mr Erdogan conflates dissent with treachery; he is staging his own coup against Turkish pluralism.
As a candidate, Trump led a war on the American values of tolerance and pluralism.
And yet the messy pluralism forced differently minded people to work through one another's sensibilities.
Would it have been possible to uphold the cross' constitutionality without undermining American religious pluralism?
Bumper stickers teach us that in religious pluralism, there are many paths and one mountain.
Do you favor basic openness, diversity and pluralism, or do you favor closed ethnic nationalism?
Racial, gender, and sexual pluralism is a key part of the party's culture and ideology.
Its modern-day adherents cherish tolerance and pluralism, qualities that in many religions unsettle extremists.
Institutional racism remains a problem, as does immigration and the balancing of assimilation and pluralism.
The same principle of pluralism that applies to minds must also be applied to models.
Alas, 70 years after its founding, China is hostile even to constrained forms of pluralism.
The right response to the moment is not the Benedict Option, it is Orthodox Pluralism.
Our ties are based on democracy, pluralism, the supremacy of law and the mutual interaction.
They speak of a "great replacement" (of white Europeans by immigrants with higher birth rates), "ethno-pluralism" (which, confusingly, means something close to the opposite of "pluralism") and the need for a "reconquista" (a reference to the Christian recapture of Spain from the Moors).
As Ukraine is a crucial buffer state between Europe and an increasingly belligerent and aggressive Russia, what happens there over the next weeks and months should be everybody's business as it turns another page in its slow transformation from oligarchic pluralism to real pluralism.
It is the only basis for translating political pluralism into vigorous disagreement that makes democracy possible.
The things Rwanda's government does well, such as data-driven policymaking, are compatible with more pluralism.
He learned from Tocqueville that mass society can advance at the expense of freedom and pluralism.
The centre's commitment to gradualism, pluralism and rationality are no match for populists' simplistic emotional appeals.
If the religious minorities of Iraq disappear, so will the possibility of pluralism, moderation and stability.
Not only does it aggressively recruit women into its ranks; it promotes democracy and religious pluralism.
If this happens, Iraq risks losing its minority communities and the possibility for a healthy pluralism.
Instead, voters chose a soft-spoken leader who revels in numbers, heavy metal bands and pluralism.
They grow more supportive of policies to control minorities and less supportive of pluralism or democracy.
The European Union (EU) call the court's decision a set-back for the country's political pluralism.
Another factor could be the declining confidence in liberal democracy and its core value of pluralism.
It's an argument for celebrating and nurturing our diversity and nurturing our multicultural society, and our pluralism.
We can't want to get closer to European standards and not respect the pluralism of the media.
That means remaking the case for open society, open cultures and a basic commitment to moral pluralism.
Second, that though royal supremacy was the aim, the state ultimately lost control as Christian pluralism flowered.
Beyond all the mumbo-jumbo about "ethno-pluralism", the old racist tropes and practices are still there.
Growing up in Damascus, life used to offer a cultural pluralism that most now take for granted.
Yet the Democrats' task, which is to embrace pluralism as well as diversity, is no less pressing.
But now it's out in the open, and America faces a stark battle between pluralism and revanchism.
One of America's greatest strengths is that it values the pluralism of ideas within its political framework.
Twenty-five years later Azerbaijan remains a country allergic to any manifestation of pluralism and civil rights.
Choosing to defend our principles of pluralism and equality by defending our nation is valorous and honorable.
They argued that a 24th-century society based on liberalism and pluralism would include non-straight people.
Many then saw Iran heading for detente with the West, economic reform, social liberalisation and political pluralism.
He has no interest in the solution that liberals typically adopt to accommodate diversity: pluralism and multiculturalism.
Many then saw Iran heading for detente with the West, economic reform, social liberalization and political pluralism.
A widely accepted monolithic ideology would further suppress expressions of individual creativity and pluralism in Chinese society.
It says it opposes Medicare for All to defend "pluralism, freedom of choice [and] freedom of practice".
Everything seemed to be in such stark polarities: pluralism versus bigotry, democracy versus fascism, love trumps hate.
It begins with diversity, a concept often mistaken as being interchangeable with pluralism, but does not end there.
Religious pluralism existed on the Iberian peninsula during the long period of Muslim rule, from 711 to 1492.
It claims that Brazil's schools have been politicised by left-wing teachers and demands "pluralism" in the classroom.
This suggests a potential model for how Sharia can work within the context of secular government and pluralism.
We must support Muslims and people of faith everywhere who oppose fundamentalism and support democracy, tolerance and pluralism.
In contrast, starting around the turn of the century, the Communist Party of Vietnam has encouraged more pluralism.
Instead, the authors see the emergence of a "chaotic pluralism", in which mobilisations spring from the bottom up.
The Ismaili faith puts much emphasis on pluralism, education and social justice—things that Tajikistan still badly lacks.
To be clear: that is an un-American rejection of pluralism, not a bid to make it work.
We need common-sense gun laws, common-sense gender equality and religious pluralism and common-sense privacy laws.
We need to help the American government listen to its own ideas about gender equality, democracy and pluralism.
The marchers in Charlottesville represented values that were fundamentally antithetical to the best part of nation's character -- pluralism.
"I want to emphasize the spirit of pluralism," he told reporters after the meeting at the presidential palace.
As media pluralism disappears, citizens cannot get critical information to make up their minds about their government's record.
Widodo's commitment to pluralism in the world's largest Muslim-majority country may have narrowly won him the race.
An important outcome of Mr. Sadr joining a nonsectarian coalition is a new strain of pluralism and tolerance.
But it seems like there's a pluralism allowed for in the former that isn't possible in the latter.
"They are racists, they are sexists, they hate the Constitution, they hate free markets, they hate pluralism," Schneider said.
Pluralism has been reduced to a handful of harrassed, low-circulation newspapers such as Cumhuriyet, BirGün, Evrensel or Sözcü.
They like pluralism, tolerance, marriage equality, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and wait for it, Hillary Clinton.
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent celebrated the entrepot's pluralism and diversity as "a quantity of fine flowers of diverse colours".
First, it winnows out those who might disagree, making the cone of tolerance and ideological pluralism ever-more narrow.
Confalonieri said the new claim was on the grounds of contract violation, unfair competition and breaking TV pluralism laws.
Himmelfarb made the underlying argument that American pluralism is a zero-sum game: If blacks rise, Jews must suffer.
Zeid said the new laws struck at the heart of the European Union's values of pluralism, tolerance and solidarity.
Its political parties have kept the consensus for pluralism, contested two rounds of elections and abided by the result.
It would be the beginning of rebuilding hope and trust and a future of pluralism, respect, freedom and peace.
Its new publication,"Pluralism in Peril," provides actionable tips and best practice models for communities fighting back against hate.
It said Gambia had made progress in strengthening the rule of law, improving human rights and supporting political pluralism.
Recognizing a shared interest in a healthy pluralism — one that transcends party lines — is one way to do this.
These days the Republican Party looks like a direct reaction against this ethos — against immigration, against diversity, against pluralism.
As a corollary to its religious liberty, Pennsylvania soon became a successful political experiment in religious pluralism and toleration.
The PKK's political project is founded on basic human rights and liberties, gender liberation, religious pluralism and ecological rights.
Reconciling ourselves to the contradictions of pluralism is what makes it possible for us to unite as a people.
The arduous path to a genuine pluralism now lies open, and we have no choice but to chart it.
Supporters argue the rule will safeguard media pluralism in Europe, but major tech companies have lobbied heavily against it.
I have dedicated my life to empowering women, gender equality, celebrating religious pluralism, and building bridges among interfaith communities.
Like Trump himself, it would represent a repudiation of the pluralism and inclusivity that characterizes America at its best.
"The Nutcracker," with its multiple national dances, has always been socially inclusive; this production's cultural pluralism was particularly affable.
"The companies' policy has to, in a sense, support media pluralism in Poland," Deputy Culture Minister Pawel Lewandowski told Reuters.
It holds that pluralism involves seeking understanding across cultural and religious divides, while keeping differences intact and promoting common understanding.
Thus one liberal principle—equal treatment—might end up destroying three rival principles: self-government, pluralism and freedom from coercion.
It must be defeated by better ideas, and respect for civil and religious pluralism, which must come from Muslims themselves.
We recognized in them a desire for the best of America — for freedom and peaceful pluralism — and welcomed them in.
The values of democracy, pluralism, liberty and free enterprise — which Afghans and Americans share — continue to be institutionalized in Afghanistan.
Why mess with an agreeably broad conception of American religious pluralism by including such a tiny portion of the population?
Rod forces you to understand what real pluralism is: actually accepting people with completely different world views than your own.
Then believe in pluralism and diversity — of both people and their beliefs about their religion and the world around them.
For Vargas Llosa, London had long been a model of how polyglot pluralism, democracy and free markets should work together.
"I'm president of all of Indonesia, and democracy protects pluralism," Mr. Joko told The New York Times in an interview.
As we've seen this election season, there's a steep political price to be paid for this kind of epistemological pluralism.
A selection of his critical essays was published in "From Avant-Garde to Pluralism: An On-the-Spot History" (2006).
"Without democracy and pluralism we cannot combat poverty and injustice nor bring true development to our people," the statement said.
In the face of systemic state-facilitated persecution around the world, the Ahmadiyaa community continues to promote peace and pluralism.
The two countries boast significant Muslim populations — Indonesia has the world's largest — and they have histories of pluralism and tolerance.
Currently, secular Israelis, who face no threat of assimilation, see pluralism as a shortcut to the loss of Jewish identity.
Everyone must be sufficiently committed to pluralism to remain invested in the democratic project, even when their opponents are in power.
Or is it also a defender of hard-won democratic norms like pluralism and tolerance, and against racial hierarchies and authoritarianism?
Over the next few weeks, United States will shape both the future of pluralism in Iraq and America's own legacy there.
But Republicans rely preponderantly on the states, mostly in the Midwest and Great Plains, that least embody this widening religious pluralism.
He argued that Wahhabi teaching was undermining the pluralism, tolerance and openness to science and learning that had long characterized Islam.
Marxists retreated to academic fastnesses, fascists to online message boards, and Western Christianity accepted pluralism and abandoned throne-and-altar dreams.
And the nation has shown that there is much deeper support for values like ethnic pluralism than Mr. Trump's election suggests.
We will — I will — do everything I can to lift up the multiplicity of Muslim voices that promote pluralism and peace.
They grow more supportive of policies to restrict or control minorities, the research found, and less supportive of pluralism or democracy.
His last book, a collection of essays titled "The Calling," dealt with themes like religious pluralism and the need for tolerance.
"This is a mandate that rejects reform, democratization, civil freedom and broad tolerance of pluralism," Mr. Welikala said of the vote.
It does not align with the ideal of this country being a safe haven of ethnic and religious pluralism and opportunity.
Lemann suggests greater pluralism, by which he means enabling ordinary people to join forces and reverse political decisions that affect them.
Two members of Congress will be speaking, although their remarks will be confined to the case for secular pluralism in law.
It is not enough to celebrate marginal gains by small pro-openness parties, or to find solace in the language of pluralism.
Just as Karl Popper wrote that tolerance depends on intolerance of intolerance; so pluralism depends on a degree of unity and cohesion.
You know, the one with mushy beliefs about pluralism that looks the other way on Islamist violence while shutting down conservative speech.
A society of unruly pluralism and grudging mutual toleration hammering out one bitterly negotiated compromise after another isn't anybody's idea of perfection.
"Pluralism has always been a part of Indonesia's DNA," Joko Widodo told Reuters in an interview at the presidential palace in Jakarta.
The Republicans, by contrast, have often echoed the language of pluralism but in practice have functioned as the party of white resentment.
Instead, the authors see the emergence of a "chaotic pluralism", in which mobilisations spring from the bottom up, often reacting to events.
People of my generation are much more comfortable in a world that has a lot more pluralism religiously, culturally, ethnically, socially, politically.
If they disappear, pluralism and stability leave with them, notwithstanding their two millennia of social, intellectual and economic contributions to these societies.
Isenberg's analysis, however, suggests that the children of this era undid much of the urban pluralism that their stodgier precursors had wrought.
And thus did Leigh Alexander's commentary on the pluralism of gaming today get equal time with a campaign bent on silencing her.
Together, through open dialogue, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kyril are illuminating a path towards peace and pluralism that we all should follow.
Voting against President Trump is a vote in favor of the pluralism and social diversity that characterizes the United States in 2018.
The writer is an associate fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal.
It depends on public commitment to its essential values: pluralism, mutual respect and tolerance, flexibility, critical thinking and a willingness to compromise.
What he suggested would mean embracing Judaism as a vital part of America pluralism — and finding the spiritual meaning in the religion.
That depends on what these attacks portend — whether the global currents of religiously inspired terrorism overwhelm the island's longstanding experience with pluralism.
They force would-be populists to make concessions to other political groups, which injects pluralism into their coalitions and moderates personality cults.
Citizens select their leaders, but without the robust institutions or norms like pluralism, universal rights or tolerance necessary for democracy to function.
Instead of restating your own values — for pluralism, for a compromise, for peace — you end up another soiled part of the climate.
Religious pluralism is central to the foundations of both India and the United States and is one of our core shared values.
Pluralism is not relativism: I do not have to agree that there is no truth about climate change or racism or God.
NOAM SCHIMMEL, BOSTON The writer is an associate fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill Faculty of Law.
From the view of pluralism, constitutionalism and liberalism, it is difficult not to see such a constitutional revision as a historical regression.
Whether Christianity and pluralism survive in the Middle East, or disappear forever, may well lie in the hands of the U.S. Senate.
It looks ever more prescient and in some ways exemplifies the pluralism that MoMA needs to aim for in its next life.
Through the lab CounterPulse posits art as a means of decentralizing dominant polemics in our conversations around difference in search of cultural pluralism.
This is pluralism at work and on the move in the way we used to be told was the key to peace everywhere.
"The Prime Minister came to power here talking about pluralism and diversity and promised to get rid of the Sedition act," he said.
Defenders of Hong Kong's pluralism typically urge China to have more confidence in its grip on the city, and not squeeze so hard.
Ironically, in a more recent book, Avant-Garde to Pluralism: An On-the-Spot History (21976), Sandler still couldn't find room for Lewis.
That is why liberals want free, competitive, fair markets; a socially liberal culture and laws allowing for human diversity; and pluralism in politics.
Not just lives, but a tradition of pluralism and tolerance, all too rare in the Middle East, and a rich cultural treasure-house.
The test, which would seek values such as tolerance and pluralism, would include questionnaires, social media assessments and interviews with friends and family.
Racism and segregation were his articles of faith; religious pluralism meant that Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Methodists worshiped within walking distance of each other.
Second, the West should cleave to its principles, urging Mr Erdogan to seek pluralism and strong institutions rather than an all-powerful presidency.
Feminism, gay rights, religious pluralism, and the overall slow but certain rise of equality in America has eroded the traditional concept of family.
While the Ahmadiyya community has led by example, promoting peace and pluralism, they are among the most persecuted Muslim groups in the world.
The HHS mandate, requiring employers to cover contraceptive and abortion-inducing drugs and devices, has tested this country's commitment to a healthy pluralism.
That alone is impressive, considering our ethnic pluralism, which dates to the colonial era and which has been sustained throughout the nation's history.
The challenge of pluralism is the challenge of modern society: maintaining equality amid difference in a culture given to constant and unpredictable change.
Still, my main reason for "optimism" is America's tradition of liberty, its ineradicable pluralism - and (to sound a populist note) the American people.
It contains language that might impede efforts to foster greater Jewish religious pluralism in Israel, including egalitarian prayer spaces at the Western Wall.
The Israeli experiment is to honestly attempt to join these two types of pluralism, Jewish and democratic, to make a modern, progressive state.
NOAM SCHIMMEL, BOSTON The writer is an associate fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University Faculty of Law.
"If pluralism means a multiparty system, Western-style elections — he doesn't believe that kind of system is suitable for China," Mr. Ren said.
But they also have a patriotic duty — a duty to stand up for pluralism, equality, tolerance of dissent and the rule of law.
All of this is essential for maintaining e pluribus unum and trying to fulfill the hopes of the great American project of pluralism.
But it has already stirred debate about whether Mr. Trump's approach to immigration breaks from long-held American values of pluralism and tolerance.
When you listen to your neighbor, you see how many perspectives there are and you're intellectually humble in the face of that pluralism.
It doesn't dissolve into a postmodern-ish haze of discourses; it doesn't prioritize textuality in a way that supplants pluralism with fuzzy relativism.
He succeeded in keeping Kenya relatively stable compared to many of its troubled neighbors, working for regional peace, and eventually he introduced political pluralism.
Protesters gathered anew in city centres around Algeria demanding root-and-branch reforms - including political pluralism and crackdowns on corruption and cronyism, witnesses said.
Just like previous historical instances of ideological hubris, this has stifled open and honest discussion; in this case about the true meaning of pluralism.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, an intergovernmental human rights and media freedom watchdog, has said media pluralism has declined in Hungary.
Liberalism was rejected for its promotion of individualism and individual rights, its emphasis on reason and rationality, its acceptance of pluralism, and its cosmopolitanism.
Millennial evangelicals They've grown up in the shadow of old guard evangelicals, but they're more attuned to the country's religious pluralism than their forebears.
" He warned against abandoning "the pluralism and the openness, our rule of law, our civil liberties, the very things that make this country great.
America and the West, like the Federation, are based on liberalism and pluralism—but some people still want to break it and cause havoc.
It is a testimony to the diversity and pluralism of the elections — and a success story so soon after major combat operations have ended.
Clinton becomes as unacceptable as bigotry, when her supporters are called privileged, oppressive and stupid, we lose the central feature of our democracy — pluralism.
Kalın rejected the European model of secular democracy, politics and pluralism and instead posited a new geopolitical framework where Turkey plays a pivotal role.
They advocated an incremental process of internal change — evolution, not revolution, they liked to say, toward greater pluralism in thought, politics and even religion.
Liberal supporters of Widodo have criticized him for pandering to conservatives, raising concerns over the erosion of Indonesia's reputation for religious tolerance and pluralism.
The most profound lesson that I discovered from playing in a wide array of bands was the power of pluralism in our diverse democracy.
Sidestepping America also allows us to preserve the belief that as one of the world's newest countries, and a democracy, we value ethnic pluralism.
Or to put it even more bluntly: Is it even possible to defend pluralism and women's rights at the same time in Germany today?
Not from domestic fringe elements or extremist political movements, which we have come to see as a testimony to the pluralism of our democracies.
Like or hate that film, it had both an idea in its head (about religion and pluralism) and a lot of hilariously crude originality.
In this darkened atmosphere, pessimism about the future of pluralism is rampant among religious conservatives, and the hope of persuasion and dialogue has dimmed.
There is a real sense there of what Hong Kong's citizenship means and of the interconnections between the rule of law, pluralism and prosperity.
He says he would like to see more pluralism and diversity, and more commercial television and news channels to compete with the existing ones.
Comments from analysts and editorials in the local news largely supported Mr. Basuki and raised concerns about the future of Indonesia's constitutionally enshrined pluralism.
Yes, some things are true even if Trump believes them: Islam does have problems with gender and religious pluralism, and integration in Western societies.
"It is together that we will build a new strong multilateralism that defends pluralism and democracy in the face of ill winds," Macron said.
Protesters gathered anew in city centers around Algeria demanding root-and-branch reforms - including political pluralism and crackdowns on corruption and cronyism, witnesses said.
The months between yielded movies about pluralism and agnosticism (Sausage Party), the mysterious, doubtable supernatural (Midnight Special), and entering and escaping cults (Holy Hell).
That's what makes pluralism so tricky to navigate for storytellers, and more broadly for people living in a pluralist society — though it's not impossible.
Rawls starts his account of the reasonable from the premise of what he calls "reasonable pluralism," an inevitable concomitant of modern-day democratic government.
In total, it incorporates 60 indicators across five broad categories: electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, democratic political culture and civil liberties.
But it does show how effective Mr. Trump is at amping up an audience that remains frozen in time on issues of pluralism and integration.
Freed from the need to watch the polls, he might try to push through more controversial reforms or even attempt to promote tolerance and pluralism.
If the United State deems support for Turkey's role in the fight against ISIS important, such support should be contingent on Turkey's support for pluralism.
"As places of historic pluralism, these landmarks will be highlighted as a point of reference for what is possible elsewhere in the world," Arboleda said.
And how will a voting base that reflects the pluralism of America respond to the intensely anti-pluralistic demagoguery of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz?
When well over 40% of Europeans think that Islam is not compatible with Western values, it's counterproductive to mock any cultural exchange that promotes pluralism.
As they point out, Luther wanted no part of pluralism—even for the time, he was vehemently anti-Semitic—and not much part of individualism.
The notion that Judaism is about diversity and pluralism reflects a multicultural, freethinking liberalism that is very congenial to the books' secular, English-speaking audience.
Radicalization meant adopting the very same policies the opposition feared the most: anti-secularism in Turkey, anti-Europeanism in Hungary and anti-pluralism in Venezuela.
This is another way that the Israeli government denies freedom of religion, destroys pluralism and keeps many Jews from feeling part of the Jewish state.
From the 1930s through the '60s, American politics revolved around a New Deal liberal view that stressed managed capitalism, labor-business cooperation, and political pluralism.
These beliefs are now recognized as objectionable; they've been replaced, ostensibly, by an acceptance of pluralism and diversity — though not a deep commitment to integration.
Under President Xi Jinping, the unyielding Communist Party leader, China has turned sharply against the advocates of political pluralism and legal limits on party power.
Every year, the analysis company judges countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.
Attached to Clinton's candidacy are the futures of Supreme Court jurisprudence, European and Asian security, the health of American pluralism, and the rule of law.
The previous Conservative government matched a donation from the Aga Khan of 30 million Canadian dollars to open a Global Center for Pluralism in Ottawa.
I have come to believe that the principles of pluralism and liberal democracy support the right of any citizen to have faith and participate in politics.
The combination of the two would make a stark contrast with Trump's rhetoric, offering a reminder that Democrats are the party of pluralism, diversity and integration.
Pluralism is the idea that people of varied backgrounds and beliefs can form a coherent society based on mutual respect, under an umbrella of shared values.
Mike Pence has failed the American people by stooping to political showmanship instead of rising to embody the nation's highest ideals -- dialogue, pluralism, and free speech.
But so long as American values of pluralism, integration, and personal liberty persist, we will need immigrants to fill a vital role in our cultural milieu.
But the vehemence and humor of her polemics in defense of pluralism and minority rights had made her a beloved figure to an increasingly embattled opposition.
But many Indian liberals fear that the B.J.P.'s overwhelming victory in 2000 marks the most profound threat to India's democracy and pluralism since its founding.
" Mr. Petkoff banded together with former guerrillas to establish the Movement Toward Socialism party in the early 1970s and embraced what he described as "democratic pluralism.
With the transition to a market liberal order, the prospect for these kind of reforms has dramatically diminished, and America's pluralism has increasingly lost its mooring.
The migration and terrorism crises that fueled its rise have eased, leaving populist leaders a stripped-down message of opposition to pluralism, multiculturalism and international cooperation.
Far more often, with the language of participation the coin of the realm, they dare to voice old defenses of party regularity and pluralism only sotto voce.
Allowing new political parties suggests some flexibility by the Algerian authorities, who have faced weeks of protests demanding immediate steps to introduce democratic reforms including political pluralism.
ON MAY 16th the Aga Khan (pictured, left), the spiritual leader to 15m of the world's Shia Ismaili Muslims, opened a Global Centre for Pluralism in Canada.
"It [pluralism] does not mean that we want to eliminate our differences or erase our distinctions," the Aga Khan explained in his speech at the centre's opening.
That openness -- in a city teeming with ethnic and religious diversity -- is a powerful testament to freedom and pluralism in a region desperately in need of both.
"Vivendi has always operated within Italian law, and specifically the Gasparri Law regarding the protection of media pluralism from the creation of dominant positions," the group said.
Through questionnaires, searching social media, interviewing friends and family or other means, applicants would be vetted to see whether they support American values like tolerance and pluralism.
Mr Shenker uses Egypt's woes to discredit neoliberalism, yet he describes vividly how Mr Mubarak's reforms were a fraud, creating only the "façade of competition and pluralism".
"The Garden of Eden" evokes not cheerful pluralism in transgressing gender boundaries but the old Hemingway themes of the bonding of hunter and hunted, prey and predator.
This is the paradox of pluralism: In order to get people to integrate with others you have to help them weave close communities with their own kind.
"The extensions of Mr Demirtas' detention, especially during two crucial campaigns... pursued the predominant ulterior purpose of stifling pluralism and limiting freedom of political debate," it said.
Moreover, a peace breakthrough in Afghanistan could potentially address important questions regarding how a state can accommodate Islamic hard-line groups whilst protecting pluralism and women's rights.
In response to growing rifts between the country's Malay, Chinese and Indian populations, he announced the "1Malaysia" program, a campaign to encourage national unity, diversity and pluralism.
In keeping with the temper of the times—or what that temper seemed to be, until fairly recently—they are in favor of pluralism and against essentialism.
The United States and India find convergence on democracy, pluralism, and rule of law, as well as their shared interest in upholding the security of maritime commons.
Since November, the Justice Department has established the "Combating Religious Discrimination Today" campaign and taken part in a series of anti-discrimination efforts to celebrate religious pluralism.
Our vision of community wealth building sees economic and social policymaking rooted more firmly in the foundational tenets of American civilization: tolerance, pluralism and equality of opportunity.
"I hoped that hosting the prestigious WEF would help them realize that pluralism, human rights and freedom are necessary to economic development," she said in the tweet.
They watch what we model — so it is more vital than ever that we continue to model the rule of law, respect for institutions, tolerance and pluralism.
When Zimmermann spoke of pluralism and the "sphericity of time," he was making a claim about the essential simultaneity of experience, not about doing whatever one liked.
We can get to this Finland Station only with the support of a majority; that's one reason that socialists are such energetic advocates of democracy and pluralism.
Mr. Orban, prime minister since 2010, supports the idea of "illiberal democracy," which puts rule-by-majority nationalism ahead of minority rights, political pluralism and international cooperation.
The previous Conservative government agreed to match a donation of 30 million Canadian dollars from the Aga Khan to establish a Global Center for Pluralism in Ottawa.
Liberalism — by which I mean civil liberties, civil rights, tolerance and pluralism: the small-L ''liberalism'' in ''liberal democracy'' — emerged from centuries of religious warfare in Europe.
The forthcoming documentary, The Argumentative Indian, based on Sen's book of the same name, is about—ironically—the power of public discourse and intellectual pluralism in India.
But the national press is undoubtedly cosmopolitan in its outlook — it is based in New York and Washington and Los Angeles, and it prizes diversity, tolerance, pluralism.
In his minutely detailed CITY OF GODS: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens (Empire State Editions/Fordham University, paper, $35), the historian R. Scott Hanson uses the story of Flushing — which calls itself the birthplace of religious freedom in America and is now the hub of the most religiously diverse large county in the United States — as a "case study" of the promises and drawbacks of pluralism.
The index rates 167 countries by 60 indicators across five broad categories: electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government, political participation, democratic political culture and civil liberties.
Meanwhile, Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall has called for a renewed appreciation of the "canonical pluralism frog" Kermit, leading many to adopt Kermit as their Twitter avatar.
Now, as the traditional Christian homeland of the Nineveh Plain is being liberated, America may have its last opportunity to support pluralism and minority religious groups in Iraq.
President Widodo recently told Reuters that he believes the country's reputation for moderate Islam remains intact and that "pluralism has always been a part of the Indonesia's DNA".
While the strategy is still unclear for most, the messages they're promoting are all still aligned with the longstanding tenets of the fashion industry: Progressivism, pluralism, tolerance, liberalism.
Instead, liberal Jews have chosen to view their Jewishness not as a function of nationalism or religion but as the expression of universal values like justice and pluralism.
Education scholar Ashley Berner calls this educational pluralism, and though it's standard operating procedure in many other countries, states are the proving ground for this approach in America.
A new totalizing ethos seeks to supplant the pluralism of Nehru and Gandhi with a monolithic vision of nationhood steeped in the supremacist ideology of Hindutva ("Hindu-ness").
But Tunisia's new-found pluralism has also turned it into a target for extremists, hell-bent on creating an Islamic world under the boot heel of Sharia law.
These included the Jacksonians (pugilistic populists), the Paleos (Tucker Carlson-style economic nationalists), the Post-Liberals (people who oppose pluralism and seek a return to pre-Enlightenment orthodoxy).
In the Poland of 2019, even the pope's childhood can have a contested meaning: While it was suffused in Polish patriotism, it occurred in a place of pluralism.
They cited this as evidence of the country's baseline religious pluralism, which I appreciated as a source of strong and meaningful contrast to its deep-cutting ethnic divisions.
We can defeat ISIS extremism, with our pluralistic fighting machine, but the one thing we can't do is create Sunni-Shiite pluralism and power-sharing to replace it.
Trump has run a political operation from the White House that has revolved around a vision of white nationalism that challenges the values of pluralism, diversity and inclusion.
While Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, is hailed for its embrace of religious pluralism, the country also has a painful history of domestic terrorist attacks.
C.W.: Oh, I think it can help enormously, by drawing out more clearly the broader base that these struggles share in what I've called a posthumanist ethical pluralism.
Widodo has pledged to protect Indonesia's tradition of pluralism and moderate Islam, and he has banned Hizb ut-Tahrir, a hardline group with ambitions for an Islamic caliphate.
It has served as a model for inclusion and pluralism, accepting people from different religious backgrounds and hosting millions of refugees from neighboring countries like Syria and Iraq.
Perhaps the profusion of religious exploration in entertainment is attributable to this massive shift in the religious landscape over the past decade, along with growing globalism and pluralism.
Faced with exclusion, I ask for coexistence; federalism and union, not provincialism and division; the rule of law, not arbitrariness; and pluralism and freedom against dogma and imposition.
Madrid's proposal to the Senate says this will ensure the information transmitted is "true, objective and balanced, in line with political, social and cultural pluralism, and territorial balance".
Indonesia is officially secular and has a tradition of pluralism but Islam has increasingly crept into politics in a country home to significant Christian, Hindu and other religious minorities.
Finally, engaging in local and federal elections to elect representatives who favor pluralism and inclusiveness over bigotry and exclusiveness is key for creating positive policy for years to come.
Morawiecki rejected the view that the penalty amounted to an assault on the freedom of media in Poland, saying the country of 38 million people enjoyed full media pluralism.
And for all the Americans who feel left behind in a society that insists on a certain kind of social and cultural pluralism, Trump really is fighting their war.
Diana Eck, who heads Harvard University's Pluralism Project, which studies issues that arise in multireligious societies, said spasms of violence are common during eras of rapid and widespread change.
It is the belief that, thanks to the general spread of market freedom and cultural pluralism, our society is becoming stumblingly but gradually richer, more just and more creative.
The people of Kurdistan hold their own culture and identity, content with values of pluralism, democracy and peaceful coexistence, and denial of this will only lead to unwanted outcomes.
Paul Schiff Berman is the Walter S. Cox Professor of Law at George Washington University and the author of Global Legal Pluralism, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.
Some hardline Islamic leaders have publicly called for the ousting of Widodo, who has pledged to protect Indonesia's tradition of pluralism and moderate Islam in the officially secular country.
Left or right, the radical pessimism of an unremitting dystopianism has itself contributed to the unravelling of the liberal state and the weakening of a commitment to political pluralism.
America's concern for the plight of persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East is consistent with our longstanding tradition of religious freedom, pluralism, and the defense of universal rights.
Mr. Navalny's exclusion "casts a serious doubt on political pluralism in Russia and the prospect of democratic elections next year," the European Union's foreign service said in a statement.
Ms. Tokarczuk has documented Poland's long history of pluralism and ethnic mixing at the same time as her government has cast migrants as a mortal danger to the nation.
So we British educated young Hong Kongers in their universities, encouraging them to read books about democracy and pluralism while telling them that these things were not for them.
"... the dominant position of state actors and limits on fundamental freedoms undermine political pluralism and led to a campaign devoid of genuine competition," the OSCE election observation mission said.
They must also demonstrate continual progress toward establishing the rule of law, political pluralism, establishing internationally recognized worker rights, and the elimination of barriers to U.S. trade and investment.
And the evening, at its best, was both a demonstration of, and an argument for, the value of pluralism, for expansive humanism as an antidote to narrowness and intolerance.
To get serious about stopping endless war, American leaders must do what they most resist: end America's commitment to armed supremacy and embrace a world of pluralism and peace.
Jan-Werner Müller of Princeton University describes populism as a kind of identity politics that champions the people as morally superior and opposes pluralism as a tool of elites.
It has no interest in preserving pluralism, free and fair elections or any version of the rule of law that applies to the powerful as well as the powerless.
"The dominant position of state actors and limits on fundamental freedoms undermine political pluralism and led to a campaign devoid of genuine competition," the observers wrote in their report.
The United States is virtually alone in this; most democracies enjoy educational pluralism, in which the state funds many types of schools and holds them to the same standards.
Keeping pluralism at bay today is like keeping apartheid going in South Africa in the late 20th century, where white supremacists were driven to ever-more extreme and desperate expedients.
This year, may Eid also be a time in which we recognize the values of progress, pluralism, and acceptance that bind us together as a Nation and a global community.
For example, this weekend, I will join more than 30,000 people at Britain's largest Muslim convention to promote mutual understanding and pluralism among Muslims and with people of other faiths.
The centre, which in a nice bit of symbolism occupies what was once a war museum in Ottawa, is meant to be a hub for research and conferences on pluralism.
At a time of hardening Hindu nationalism, crude attacks on Gandhi have become routine online: "worryingly, there is a wider disenchantment with Gandhi's ideas of religious pluralism," Mr Guha notes.
In the context of the rich religious pluralism of the U.S., we must ask more broadly what the religious left can do collaboratively to affect change in American political discourse.
U.S. relations with several Latin American governments remain testy, and the administration has maintained a war of words with Venezuela over the need for greater democratic pluralism in that country.
Unlike traditional socialists, Sanders did not claim to represent "the working class," but a broader group; unlike progressives, he did not seek to reconcile class interests within a democratic pluralism.
It attacked the pope for a common statement with a prominent Muslim leader in Abu Dhabi in February which said the pluralism and diversity of religions was "willed by God".
Their enemies weren't the KKK or the Nazis; instead this new cohort of moral crusaders identified their spiritual opponents as liberal secularists and other advocates of tolerance and pluralism—i.e.
But non-Serbs — Catholic Croats and in particular Bosniak Muslims — say that holding the celebration of Statehood Day on a religious holiday violates their country's principle of secularism and pluralism.
Taking that pluralism seriously means contesting the new crusades of these eastern Christians' false friends in the West — and rejecting sectarian caricatures in favor of universal equality and human freedom.
"Is there a unifying principle to this madness?" asked Donniel Hartman, a rabbi who is the president of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, which promotes Jewish pluralism and democracy.
If it did not, he said, occupation would distort the young state, which had been founded to protect not just the Jewish people but their ideals of democracy and pluralism.
The shift from the politics of Rabin and Shimon Peres to that of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman is a move from pluralism to ethnocentrism, from relentless engagement to segregation.
But in the past few decades, the party of Davos — with its globalism, relativism, pluralism and diversity — has sapped away the moral foundations of this Judeo-Christian way of life.
Every day, New Yorkers of all faiths and races depend on a deep spirit of pluralism and tolerance as they make their way through the city's subways, parks and sidewalks.
The world, unable to unwind a global order built on national identity, sought to manage its worst tendencies by promoting cultural pluralism, international integration and protections for minorities and migrants.
In my research, I find the NCRI Ten-Point Plan for a future Iran contains three key principles: pluralism; separation of religion and state; and no weapons of mass destruction.
Nor, for that matter, is it anywhere remotely as noxious as what is happening in other Western democracies wrestling with competing claims between national identity, civil liberties and cultural pluralism.
It has emphasised that its aim is pluralism: it wants to require architects to pay more attention to "design, style and community consent", rather than make them build neo-Georgian pastiches.
The fundamentals of US democratic pluralism are strong -- but not invulnerable He refused to say he would accept the results of the election even his own campaign expected him to lose.
It is no coincidence that the most successful forces for liberal pluralism in recent years have included Spain's Ciudadanos, founded in 2006 and currently leading polls, and Mr Macron's En Marche!
" The FDD is a non-profit group that bills itself as a non-partisan group with a "mission to promote pluralism, defend democratic values and fight the ideologies that drive terrorism.
This reality is not dependent on a few dozen organizations on opposite sides of the Atlantic concerned with politics and pluralism, but thousands of personal and public forums for young Jews.
Perhaps most damning of all was Saladin's role in stemming the intellectual curiosity, pluralism and joie de vivre that characterised classical Islam, and in precipitating its descent into intolerance and fundamentalism.
Since Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater squared off in 1964, the Democrats have been the party of ethnic pluralism in America, one that sees the nation as a multi-ethnic democracy.
Paul Schiff Berman is the Walter S. Cox Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School and the author of Global Legal Pluralism, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.
" He added that measures taken to increase control of the state broadcaster by the new, nationalist-led government in Warsaw also raised "issues relating to freedom and pluralism in the media.
The same Republican officials who acquiesced to Trump during the campaign trail are now shrinking from any sense of responsibility to promote pluralism or obligation to reject threats to the constitution.
Their support for continued fact-finding, along with the imposition of punitive measures for offenses against religious freedom as envisioned in IRFA, is complimented by their commitment to promote religious pluralism.
We felt sure that things must eventually go back to normal — normal being a Muslim-majority country with a secular Constitution and a robust tradition of social justice, diversity and pluralism.
I'm not absolving myself of my duty as an American to uphold the values that welcomed me here—pluralism and equality and tolerance—and that should be extended to other immigrants.
"I was not a frequent reader of the newspaper, but it's important we have pluralism of media in Hungary," said one of the demonstrators, Eva Tubakos, 54, an unemployed event organizer.
Still, without a crisis to justify populism's hard-line policies, its message has been stripped down to its most core element: opposition to liberal ideals of pluralism, multiculturalism and international cooperation.
One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation between church and state has helped us fine-tune.
The Sinfonietta's repertoire now reflects the anything-goes pluralism of a music scene that stretches beyond concert halls into the kind of clubs where rock, pop and experimental music freely coexist.
The key to the invention of free speech was the recognition of pluralism — the fact that, in any human population, there will be people with irreconcilably different understandings of the truth.
The refugee crisis has posed one of the biggest challenges in memory to the cohesion of the European Union and some of its core values: freedom of movement, common borders, pluralism.
"The baby stroller per capita numbers were staggering," Mr. Delury said, explaining how the protest movement reached the urban middle classes, which tend to favor pluralism, stability and rule of law.
President Joko Widodo has expressed concerns over hoax stories and hate speech spread online and has pledged to "clobber" any group threatening to destroy Indonesia's tradition of pluralism and moderate Islam.
China and Russia share a distaste for Western-style democracy and stress traditional values and the primacy of order, seeing themselves as superior alternatives to Western models rooted in political pluralism.
That's the classic worry of many secularists: that state support of religion will create religiosity, which might threaten the vital separation of conscience and state on which all peaceful pluralism depends.
Visitors might gravitate to some stories over others, but Gregory has given every testimony the same treatment, assembling her material in ways that celebrate the pluralism of Bay Area immigrant communities.
Blizzard earned unparalleled respect and adoration over the decades not just because it produced games of the highest quality but also because the company has long touted values of pluralism and tolerance.
Thanks to the "hardheaded realism" of men like John Adams, and James Madison's appreciation for "the value of deliberation, pluralism, and reciprocity," the American Revolution saw the first flourishing of modern democracy.
He defended the First Amendment's protection of the free exercise of conscience not on the grounds that the state has a vested interest in pluralism, but because Jesus himself believed in it.
No further aid should be sent to Iraq until pluralism is respected because this kind of second-class citizenship for Christians and Yazidis helped create an environment in which genocide was possible.
Going forward, the Indonesian government is likely to have to navigate between growing conservative Islamic factions and the country's commitment to pluralism and diversity as it heads to the polls in 2019.
"Pictures" looks like a children's wild game that becomes a multilayered dialogue with music and works of art; "Serenade," as its men discuss love, becomes a picture of pluralism, civilized and philosophical.
"In the interest of pluralism, it's about time we had a Protestant on the Supreme Court," said Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary and a member of Trump's evangelical advisory board.
Under these circumstances, the European Union urgently needs to demonstrate to its citizens that it has the wherewithal to stand up for pluralism and the rule of law within its own family.
Every year, The Economist magazine assesses the state of democracy across the world, based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.
Each year, The Economist magazine ranks the state of democracy in 167 governments based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.
Such tolerant pluralism has a long and distinguished pedigree, from writings of figures like James Madison and John Locke to the broader Christian ideal of loving one's enemies; great, high-minded stuff.
Religious pluralism should not strive for the lowest common denominator version of engagement, but rather an appreciation and acknowledgement of our differences, a commitment to cooperative and constructive agreement across those differences.
This imitative quality and its attendant "pluralism" (noted to some degree or another by most of the critics assembled here) doesn't only bother art historians; it's readily apparent to those less schooled.
The values of pluralism and diversity that all Australian universities profess to represent shouldn't be reduced to mere advertising slogans — they're prerequisites for the participatory intellectual climate in which scholarly work thrives.
As ever, we must resist authoritarian instincts that restrict our liberties, demonize anybody who appears to be different and — as is happening in Turkey — outlaw freedom of expression, judiciary independence and pluralism.
"Even those who respect his security experience have just felt distant because of the lack of respect for their religious pluralism," said Abraham H. Foxman, retired director of the Anti-Defamation League.
Every year, the firm's Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.
Thousands of protesters gathered anew in city centers around Algeria demanding root-and-branch reforms - including political pluralism and crackdowns on corruption and cronyism, witnesses said, and more were expected after Friday prayers.
"For me, it's all about pluralism and human rights," said Rudolf Dethu, a leader of two groups opposing the legislation, one of which organizes social events to promote the culinary aspects of beer.
Jokowi's pact with Ma'ruf, whose controversial positions include outlawing LGBT relationships, "is an indication that those who openly support pluralism, liberalism and secularism have been under attack for some years now," she added.
In a time in which Donald Trump openly demonizes minorities and gins up hate of those who look or pray differently, this was a victory for the American ideals of tolerance and pluralism.
Thousands of protesters gathered anew in city centres around Algeria demanding root-and-branch reforms - including political pluralism and crackdowns on corruption and cronyism, witnesses said, and more were expected after Friday prayers.
If religiosity is a marker of one's politics, you can motivate your troops by spreading fear that religiosity is under threat: Secularism and/or pluralism and/or Islam is coming to replace you.
The U.S. system of religious tolerance and pluralism, the result of many mistakes and lessons learned, works best, and other nations would do well to learn from our errors rather than emulate them.
Listen to the Muslim leaders who challenge the orthodoxies of radicalization within their own faith — not from the comfortable distance of an armchair, but as organizers and activists for pluralism, progress, and reform.
So perhaps the modern world as we know it was the best we could do, the only path to liberty and pluralism and mass prosperity, however many Cromwells it required to get here.
In London in the 20183s, Soros was a student of the expatriated Austrian philosopher Karl Popper, who championed the notion of an "open society," in which individual liberty, pluralism and free inquiry prevailed.
Although it is undeniably true that Indian democracy is currently facing enormous challenges, people living on the subcontinent have long espoused tolerance and religious pluralism; furthermore, India is still an experiment in democracy.
The shock waves from these transformations — harnessed effectively by Donald Trump's campaign — are reorienting the political parties from the more familiar liberal-versus-conservative alignment to new poles of cultural pluralism and monism.
On Saturday, the anti-Trump forces could have offered a red, white and blue alternative patriotism, a modern, forward-looking patriotism based on pluralism, dynamism, growth, racial and gender equality and global engagement.
It also reaffirms the city's commitment to remain a center of cultural and religious pluralism at a time when racism and xenophobia are growing elsewhere in the United States and across the world.
Mr. Horowitz, the Democratic Union leader and a longtime advocate for religious pluralism, said that what was most offensive was what he called the exploitation of "captive audiences" of army recruits and schoolchildren.
MILAN, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Prada celebrated the "pluralism and complexities of female identities" at its Fall/Winter show in Milan on Thursday, with designs ranging from strict tailoring to fringed and sequinned dresses.
By the Obama years, a growing segment of the right came to perceive radical Islamic terrorism, white demographic decline and cultural pluralism as threats to Western civilization — and autocrats as its foremost defenders.
Trump, with his braying entitlement, his boastful ignorance, his sneering contempt for pluralism, is an avatar of a Republican Party desperate to return to the 1980s, or the 1950s, or maybe the 1910s.
And as we prepare for a new century — and a new millennium — the arts and humanities are more essential than ever to the endurance of our democratic values of tolerance, pluralism and freedom.
Politicians are guilty of this every time a female American envoy agrees to ignore our firm belief in religious pluralism by donning a hijab when visiting even non-religious sites in a Muslim country.
He rejects pluralism, in that he would bar, among other peoples, all Muslims, or all peoples from certain countries from our nation without due process to establish which are threats and which are not.
The country is pulling out of Telesur, a self-styled leftist alternative to mainstream media, because of a lack of "pluralism" and being shut out of financial decisions, the Communications Ministry in Argentina said.
And how an anti-Islamist, nationalist party in Germany, the AfD, was unabashedly handing out branded gummy bears to entice voters to abandon cultural and religious pluralism in favor of frenzied nationalism and xenophobia.
A better multiculturalism would be optimistic: We can communicate across difference; the American creed is the right recipe for a thick and respectful pluralism; American structures are basically sound and can be realistically reformed.
Jacob T. Levy, a professor of political theory and the director of the Lin Center at McGill University, is the author of "Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom" and a senior fellow of the Niskanen Center.
A Middle East in which strongmen are reinforced, reform is stillborn, Islamist radicalism thrives, and pluralism is a pipe dream hardens under a president who doesn't know a moral principle from a Big Mac.
"This latest decision, which effectively excludes Mr. Navalny from the political arena, further constrains political pluralism in Russia and raises serious questions as to the fairness of democratic processes in Russia," the statement said.
As a Muslim-American, I would be greatly heartened to see anti-Muslim bigots, even the leading ones who profit from spewing hate, to evolve and embrace the American values of tolerance and pluralism.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - President Joko Widodo said on Wednesday that authorities would "clobber" any group threatening to destroy Indonesia's tradition of pluralism and moderate Islam, and called for unity ahead of presidential elections in 2019.
Under an agreement with the previous Conservative government, the Canadian treasury also matched a donation of 30 million Canadian dollars by the Aga Khan to set up a Global Center for Pluralism in Ottawa.
Reneging on DACA would send an undesirable signal to the world, contrary to the sense so many abroad have, about the U.S. experience of over 240 years, as an exemplar of hope and pluralism.
This is a "thin and sickly sort of pluralism," and one that silences the millions of people who have acted throughout history to change the world, moved to do so by their religious principles.
The court, based in Strasbourg, said Navalny had been subject to seven such arrests in 2012 and in 2014 and that at least two of those arrests had been designed to suppress political pluralism.
And since that diversity is being countered with what appears to be a growing reactionary nationalist impulse in the US and Europe, the anxiety becomes even more pressing: Can pluralism accommodate anti-pluralistic impulses?
" The declaration added that "the pluralism and the diversity of religions" was willed by God, and, "therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected.
It was nominally a speech about national unity between the red states and the blue states, but in reality the very pluralism and ecumenism of Obama's vision of America was itself a partisan statement.
"This would not have happened had it not been for strong, growing pressure from American Jewry," Uri Regev, a Reform rabbi and Israel-based advocate of religious liberty and pluralism, said of the government's move.
I make a distinction generally between the extreme right, which opposes democracy as such, and the radical right, which accepts democracy but challenges some of the fundamentals of liberal democracy — particularly pluralism and minority rights.
Ditching our utopias for an appreciation of what Gaus, following Karl Popper, calls an "Open Society" of liberal pluralism, mutual accommodation, and incremental democratic reform brings clarity and gravity to this election season's big choice.
This sort of obdurate pluralism is huge problem if you want to use an ideal to generate a picture of the perfectly just society by which to orient and guide political reform and public policy.
"Freedom and pluralism of the media are crucial for a pluralist society," Frans Timmermans, the first vice president of the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, told Polish officials in a letter.
Previous triennials have been organized around themes of youth, international pluralism, and the digital; this one, if it has to be boiled down to a semi-concise phrase, is about localized forms of political resistance.
However, it is not in America's interest to have that pluralism translate into a duplicitous foreign policy, where it could purport to hold a certain position one day, and an entirely different position the next.
"This is a test case for Indonesian pluralism, if it can withstand the pressure of the religious groups, the populists," said Wimar Witoelar, a political analyst and an adviser to former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid.
Given that both the police and fantasy realms offer rich opportunities to explore things like violence and racism and pluralism and courage, it's frustrating to notice the seeds of an interesting movie everywhere in Bright.
The alt-right's belief is that the pluralism and multiculturalism that have attended the global liberal order of the postwar era can be eradicated by white supremacy, male supremacy, and a highly ordered, hierarchical traditionalism.
Trump has clearly attempted to effectively turn the United States into Trumpistan — a nation where policies are based on bigotry, where the truth doesn't matter and American values of tolerance and pluralism are no more.
It's time for the United States and other Western governments to tell the Saudis that business-as-usual relations cannot continue unless their kingdom puts in place the building blocks of religious tolerance and pluralism.
Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, urged legislators to revise the bill, saying it restricted pluralism online and could be incompatible with international conventions.
Months of protests and a polarizing election preceded Purnama's jailing in May 2017, raising concerns over the erosion of Indonesia's long-held reputation for pluralism and tolerance, and the creeping influence of Islam in politics.
Rather than celebrating its pluralism, Quebec's government unjustly singled out Catholics who wear crosses, Jews who wear head coverings, Muslims who wear head scarves and Sikhs who wear turbans, subjecting them to ostracism and racism.
Despite their different faiths, the two houses of worship are friendly, helpful neighbors — and an example of pluralism in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation at a time of heightened fears over religious intolerance.
A "speech on Islam" could have included some references to the faith, an acknowledgment that Islam is a great religion with values in common with Judeo-Christianity, and with a history of pluralism and tolerance.
Addressing activists on Sunday at a rally in Lower Manhattan, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, shed tears as he lamented Mr. Trump's refugee ban as an affront to democracy and pluralism.
But when I go to the mall or the movies or a kid's sports game and see people — black, white, Japanese, Korean, Muslim, Hindu — mixing peacefully, I know that pluralism is woven deep within us.
"The exclusion of the applicants from Facebook is in contrast with the right to pluralism... eliminating or strongly compressing the possibility for association... to express its political messages," said the court ruling seen by Reuters.
Because the ability to doubt previously held beliefs has to become part of this complex spiritual quest — as dramatized in Sausage Party — then another result of pluralism must be an openness to expressions of doubt.
Mr. Navalny's exclusion from the March election "casts a serious doubt on political pluralism in Russia and the prospect of democratic elections next year," the European Union's foreign service said in a statement on Tuesday.
Instead, diversity and pluralism is the signal quality of the blue vision of America — it's the place where you find the Muslims and the Jews and the atheists, the immigrants and the descendants of slaves.
Rights activists have raised concerns about a recent rise of hardline Islamism that they say threatens Indonesia's long-standing reputation for pluralism and tolerance for minority religions and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
A few massively powerful tech platforms controlling so much public debate is not just terrible news for social cohesion and media pluralism, given their algorithms have no interest in sifting fake from real news (au contraire).
The judges, additionally, said the board could have accomplished its goals without "conveying an explicitly religious message or performing a religious activity" by, for example, having someone read about the importance of religious diversity or pluralism.
President Joko Widodo appears to be taking a tougher stance against fundamentalism and has said he would not tolerate any individuals or organizations that undermine the secular state ideology "Pancasila", or threaten Indonesia's tradition of pluralism.
By embracing civil rights, the Democrats solidified their status as the party of African-American voters and opened the door wide to other minorities (racial and otherwise); diversity and pluralism became core ideals of the party.
But democracy advocates' hopes that she would steer a middle course between Beijing's demands and public demands for greater political pluralism were quickly dashed, as Ms. Lam has shown little willingness to compromise on central issues.
They hear an attack not just on marginalized groups (and on individual human beings who are members of those groups) but on pluralism and diversity — things many progressives defend as "American values" in their own right.
This pluralism is always frustrating to politicians, just as it is to artists, because both tend to believe so implicitly in their own sincerity and good will that they come to perceive opposition as mere obstinacy.
Pradewi Tri Chatami, 30, a recent college graduate, posted on Facebook that the recent triumph of hard-line Islamic groups in Jakarta meant that progressive Indonesians were looking for anyone willing to stand up for pluralism.
Now each is pushing a nationalistic economic platform, but issues of race and religion loom large in the battle to run the world's largest Muslim-majority country, whose reputation for pluralism is threatened by growing conservatism.
In theory this could be a form of pluralism, but in practice it is a system in which the policies that catch Putin's eye and imagination have the best chance of success, regardless of their true merits.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, an intergovernmental human rights and media freedom watchdog, said there had been a significant decline in media pluralism in Hungary, where media had become "highly vulnerable to political pressure".
Beyond leveling attacks pre-empting Clinton's barrage, Trump sought to repaint his campaign as one concerned about the plight of some minority communities in the US and insisted that a Trump administration would promote pluralism and tolerance.
Flexibility and pluralism helped Islam flourish as a global religion for 1,400 years, but recently in the West Muslims have had to devise a theology for living as a small minority among non-Muslims, not as rulers.
Conservative groups such as Hizbut Tahrir have been a thorn in the side of democratically elected Widodo -- who supports religious pluralism -- holding mass demonstrations against religious minorities, LGBT people and anyone they perceive to have blasphemed Islam.
A major European power, a longtime defender of liberal democracy, pluralism and free markets, falls under the sway of a few cynical politicians who see a chance to exploit public fears of immigration to advance their careers.
The AGOA trade program provides sub-Saharan countries duty-free access to the United States on condition they meet certain statutory eligibility requirements, including eliminating barriers to U.S. trade and investment and making progress toward political pluralism.
Not only was the rhetoric inconsistent with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's repressive stances on free speech, academic freedom, minority rights, religious pluralism, gender equality, and democratic activities but Rouhani's follow-through on promised reforms proved elusive.
Andersonism holds that we don't have to give up on market society if we can recognize and correct for its limitations—it may even be our best hope, because it's friendlier to pluralism than most alternatives are.
He is an off-the-charts repudiation of everything the United States has stood for since 1945: representative government, liberty, the rule of law, free trade, a rules-based international order, open societies, pluralism and human rights.
Regions with a greater understanding of their own mixed-up, multiethnic past — parts of Sicily, Portugal, even postwar Bosnia — are more inclined toward pluralism than the parts of Europe where people define themselves through blood or soil.
Yet if leading democracies are also struggling – whether it be through the alleged venality of former South African President Jacob Zuma or the decrepitude of Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari – pluralism becomes harder to sell as a better alternative.
"It's positive for pluralism because these voices, and also the audiences of these voices, would not otherwise have a media to rely on," said Mr. Turk, who oversaw the regulation of Slovenian media from 2011 to 2013.
"This move will slaughter pluralism, competence, respect for the rules and respect for professionalism within (RAI)," said Michele Anzaldi, a senior figure in the center-left Democratic Party and a member of RAI's oversight committee in parliament.
In the case of Orban in Hungary and the Law and Justice government in Poland critics have credibly argued that these EU and NATO members have been drifting away from pluralism, rule of law, and democratic governance.
To reject pluralism and liberalizing progress is to reject the United States of America as it is, to heap contempt upon American heroes who shed blood and tears fighting for the liberty and equality of their compatriots.
To reject pluralism and liberalizing progress is to reject the United States of America as it is, to heap contempt upon American heroes who shed blood and tears fighting for the liberty and equality of their compatriots.
My guess is the private sector is probably doing a lot more than government is to increase the possibilities for pluralism and openness in countries that are either authoritarian or are now illiberal democracies like Mr. Putin's.
I'm less interested in whether a president kneels down than in whether he or she stands up for the important values that many religions teach — altruism, mercy, sacrifice — along with the religious pluralism that this country rightly cherishes.
Indonesia's reputation for pluralism has come under scrutiny since Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic-Chinese Christian, was sentenced in May to two years in prison for blasphemy in a trial that came after Islamist-led rallies.
Certainly not the ones who fought beside our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, people who bought into American values of freedom and pluralism and were willing to lay down their lives to bring that hope to their country.
This is a time for America to be at its best, defending its best values, which are now under assault in so many places — pluralism, immigration, democracy, trade, the rule of law and the virtue of open societies.
Above all, it's crucial to show that it is possible to point out the flaws and failures of current Western political systems without undermining what is valuable about them: pluralism, freedom of speech and the willingness for introspection.
Oh, and the very pluralism of the Democratic system, while it can make the party diffuse and ineffectual, means that there's nothing like the right's unchallengeable orthodoxy, which in turn means that sometimes analysis and evidence can matter.
But all these programs seek to correct the defects they see in mainstream higher education by stressing principles over pluralism, immersing students in the wisdom of old books and encouraging them to apply that wisdom to contemporary politics.
Tel Aviv, in particular, has a reputation as a gay-friendly destination, and Israel has often promoted its tolerance toward the L.G.B.T. community as a beacon of pluralism and tolerance compared with some of its enemies, like Iran.
The United States and other Western nations have long held up Indonesia, which has more than 190 million Muslims but also influential Christian, Hindu and Buddhist minorities, as a model for religious pluralism and democracy in the region.
America, for its part, has to keep looking for ways to collaborate with them on that pluralism project, to the extent that they want our help, with creative diplomacy, and not just wash our hands of the region.
ROME, Dec 12 (Reuters) - An Italian judge on Thursday upheld an appeal by far-right group Casapound against a decision by Facebook to close its account, deeming that the move by the social media company prevented political pluralism.
"Our shared values including our commitment to democracy and pluralism ... will continue to unite all of us," Obama said, repeating a common theme in his addresses as criticism of immigrants and religious minorities has featured in the presidential campaign.
Instead of treating every returnee like an irredeemable villain, our government should instead encourage them to share their own stories—tales that will not only illuminate the Islamic State's wickedness but also highlight our own society's pluralism and mercy.
Poland's governing Law and Justice (PiS) party has used nationalist rhetoric to rally its supporters as it battles accusations from the European Union's executive Commission, which it denies, that it has undermined the rule of law, including media pluralism.
The common thread in all of this is to see the comfort with modernity and cultural pluralism that characterizes the Federalist/Whig vision as ultimately more significant than the anti-elitism and small-d democracy of the Jeffersonian one.
But Mr Trong's abrupt removal of the offspring of the party elite from plum jobs can be seen as promoting pluralism and meritocracy in a country where nepotism is rife, says Bill Hayton of Chatham House, a think-tank.
In that prewar era, advocates of democratic radio were united by a progressive vision of pluralism and rationality; today, the question of how to fashion a democratic social media is one more front in our highly divisive culture wars.
It would be refreshing for an American to be selected on the basis of a different kind of lifelong obsession: A principled commitment to religious liberty, pluralism and the very respect for human dignity to which all religions aspire.
The great moral force of the 20th century and, so far, the 21st, was the fight to bring greater self-evidence to even more truths: suffrage, civil rights, marriage equality, religious pluralism, laws acknowledging the existence of the disabled.
Europe happens to have a homegrown example of this philosophy in medieval Andalusia, when people of multiple faiths in parts of modern-day Portugal and Spain enjoyed convivencia, a state of relative pluralism, peace and prosperity under Muslim rule.
He thinks that believers and nonbelievers, secular liberals and conservative Christians, can coexist under a classical-liberal framework in which disputes are settled by persuasion rather than constant legal skirmishing, or else are left unsettled in a healthy pluralism.
"Although we have a policy of multiculturalism, for most Canadians there is an expectation that immigrants will conform to the mainstream," said Jeffrey Reitz, the director of the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies program at the University of Toronto.
Mr. Slim said "there are those" who "apparently don't have pluralism, diversity, liberty, human rights, globalization, productivity, the environment, competition, on their radar," in a clear reference to Mr. Trump, whom he dined with in Palm Beach last month.
He called for unity among "citizens by birth or choice," advocated political moderation and fiscal responsibility as keys to effective government, defended religious pluralism, praised the importance of education and set out a foreign policy of independence, securing peace through strength.
The principles of pluralism and liberal democracy support the right of any citizen to have faith and participate in politics Nor is Pakistan the only country where Ahmadi Muslims face persecution; such prejudice is vehement elsewhere, notably in Indonesia and Algeria.
In Maryland alone, around 40 Muslims are vying for state and local seats, a huge leap from the three who ran in 2014, according to the Pluralism Project, a political action committee that formed this year to boost Muslim candidates.
Gaus shows that pluralism and disagreement improve our odds of stumbling on the truth about the good society, even if the multiplication of moral perspectives makes it impractical and objectionable to restructure society on the plan of any one sect's ideal.
The index, which comprises 60 indicators across five broad categories—electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, democratic political culture and civil liberties—concludes that less than 5% of the world's population currently lives in a "full democracy".
Justice Elena Kagan—with whom Justice Alito sparred five years ago in another religion case—commended his ruling for showing "sensitivity to and respect for this nation's pluralism, and the values of neutrality and inclusion that the First Amendment demands".
Sexual and gender minorities in Indonesia have historically lived amid a tense calm, with tolerance and pluralism protecting them from violence and a sense that discretion brought safety, said Kyle Knight, LGBT rights researcher for New York-based Human Rights Watch.
Groups determined to see Baswedan take the governorship have been accused of stoking religious discord in the city ahead of the second round, analysts say, a startling turn in a country with a secular constitution and a long tradition of pluralism.
" The letter was a response to a statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom and expression that denounced demands to shut down Al Jazeera as "a major blow to media pluralism.
But these same conditions are also what makes the Muslim population in India an attractive recruiting pool for ISIS, although Indian officials pride themselves on the country's pluralism and democratic values that they believe are perfect antidotes for violent extremism.
He should lay out all of the American values that Trump threatens—religious freedom, racial and gender equality, pluralism, separation of powers, the very rule of law—and make clear he intends to fight for them over the next four years.
Pluralism offers us the chance, and the civic duty, to be a daring social explorer, venturing across subcultures, sometimes having the exciting experience of being the only one of you in the room, harvesting the wisdom embedded in other people's lifeways.
"(The Secretary General) reiterates the support of the United Nations to the Government and people of Indonesia in their efforts to fight and prevent terrorism and violent extremism, including through the promotion of pluralism, moderation and tolerance," the statement said.
It is natural to wish that all valuable social processes will support each other, that pluralism and democracy will be reinforcing, openness and commitment will go hand in hand, while fairness and care will lead to the same social solutions.
Under Mr. Morales, Bolivia was experiencing what has come to be known as democratic backsliding, a process whereby an existing democracy gradually acquires authoritarian features — never fully becoming a full-fledged dictatorship, but significantly undermining checks and balances and pluralism.
"People in Hong Kong have a real sense – I think it's in their DNA – of the relationship between freedom, pluralism, democracy and prosperity, and what's interesting is that it's not just older people, (but) young people as well," Patten said.
A YouTube recap that includes only displays of tolerance and pluralism is a little like a Weather Channel highlight reel featuring only footage of sunny days — it might be more pleasant to look at, but it doesn't reflect the actual weather.
In response to the fall of Mr. Basuki, who used to attend St. Paul's, Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, one of his key political allies, established a special task force to reinforce the country's state ideology, known as Pancasila, which enshrines pluralism.
"Our constitutional and political provisions are based on democracy, pluralism, federalism, an open society and parliamentary democracy, all of which are missing in the Chinese system," Bimalendra Nidhi, the vice president of the Nepali Congress party, told The Kathmandu Post.
Ultimately, the Founding Fathers' central insight, however poorly it has been implemented, remains valid: Pluralism and freedom can only be maintained in the long run by "rule of law, not of men," rule of S2 thinking, not of factional S1 impulses.
According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, al-Ummah's goals are "to establish an Islamic society, remove foreign troops from the Gulf's region, implement Islamic law, and support political pluralism" -- views that are in-line with those of al Qaeda.
"By attacking the JCC, they're really attacking what is best about America: the diversity, the pluralism, the inclusion that one faith community can be as welcoming to other faith communities and demonstrate that through deeds on the ground," Mr. Posner said.
As we approach an era with no racial majority, we must reconfigure our schools to center pluralism in a global society, or else go the way of xenophobic, stagnant and insular societies that have been consigned to history's trash heap.
Indonesia, a Muslim-majority nation, has "a broken system of pluralism," said Al Makin, a professor at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, who testified as an expert witness on behalf of Milah Abraham at the three men's trial.
To some Democrats, midterm elections this November that were once seen as a test for lunch-pail issues that could woo back white working-class voters are now seen as about nothing short of the future of pluralism and constitutional democracy.
But the idea that you do have such a pluralism of views around the Cabinet table means it's much easier to draw on smaller perspectives that might not otherwise be held if there was a much more homogeneous decision-making group.
In interviews with Wallace supporters, Sanders said he found "a certain feeling of admiration and respect for" their anger at the political system but feared that, with Wallace's influence growing, their collective rage posed an existential threat to civil rights and American pluralism.
Supportive, if often by default, of the party's policy agenda at the national level while engaged centrally in the task of sustaining local control, the adaptive machines became the postwar era's most explicit champions of both pragmatism and pluralism in national party affairs.
Obama said that shared values like pluralism, democracy and equal opportunity, as well as alliance through NATO, will continue to unite the U.S., U.K. and EU. "Yesterday's vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalization," Obama said.
Hamza Khan, director of the Pluralism Project and a Democratic candidate for state delegate in Maryland, said the ugly rhetoric about Islam from President Donald Trump and his associates fueled Muslims' interest in politics, but it's not the only factor behind the increase.
Widodo said Indonesia was "still a model" of pluralism and noted comments on Saturday by former U.S. President Barack Obama - on a personal visit to the country where he spent some of his childhood - that its history of tolerance must be preserved.
The reason I like this kind of format is that I like to have the give and take, because I actually think fundamentally, this exercise in pluralism that we're living in is one that relies on us to disagree with each other. Right.
Most pre-election opinion polls had given Jokowi a double-digit lead, despite criticism from analysts and former supporters who claim he has failed to deliver on issues such as human rights -- and compromised his values of pluralism to score political points.
Because this is the twenty-first century — and given the polarization of the current political climate — it's not surprising that the very real culture wars between proponents of pluralism and the Make America Great Again movement would take their fight to feuding avatars.
Indonesia's reputation for tolerance and pluralism was already under scrutiny after Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, was sentenced last month to two years in prison for blasphemy in a trial that came after mass Islamist-led rallies last year.
Indonesia's reputation for tolerance and pluralism is already under scrutiny after Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic-Chinese Christian, was sentenced in May to two years in prison for blasphemy in a trial that came after mass Islamist-led rallies last year.
Yahoo News reports that the group, called Public Faith, espouses a belief in pluralism while condemning "systematic racism:" We believe that neither political withdrawal nor reinvigorated culture wars by Christians will help our nation and communities through the difficult challenges we face.
On sprawling, defining themes like the vocation of the state, the meaning of nationhood, the interaction of public and private spheres, and the roles of pluralism, globalisation and citizenship in modern societies it has no continuity and is irredeemably at odds with itself.
The most public-facing sister—she's a motivational speaker and teaches a course on cultural pluralism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice—Ilyasah recently published " Betty Before X ," a children's book that features their mother, Betty Shabazz, as a spunky girl hero.
The index — which has been published annually since 2002 — evaluates countries around the world by the "level of pluralism, media independence, the environment and self-censorship, the legal framework, transparency, and the quality of infrastructure that supports the production of news and information."
To truly compete with religious-based extremist organizations, it is far wiser to invest in well-defined partnerships with historically mainstream leaders and institutions to promote the common values of tolerance, pluralism, democracy, gender equality, freedom of expression, and the rights of minorities.
Without backing away from their support for same-sex marriage and legal abortion, leading Democratic politicians could talk more favorably about moral and religious pluralism, and offer reassurances to people who feel themselves to be dissenters from a very novel cultural regime.
"We will keep on walking the streets of Tel Aviv in the hope that pluralism, tolerance, and the liberal values of this city will spread throughout the country, Middle East, and the whole world," said Huldai, who has run the city since 1998.
With Stephen K. Bannon, someone who has long appealed to anti-Semites and the "alt-right," serving as the president-elect's chief strategist, Mr. Trump will double down on his attacks against "political correctness" and social values like ethnic pluralism and gender equality.
College students believe about equally in free expression and pluralism, with nearly 90 percent saying that free speech protections are very or extremely important to American democracy and more than 80 percent saying the same of promoting an inclusive and diverse society.
These conservatives believe that the current version of social liberalism has no interest in truces or pluralism and won't rest till the last evangelical baker is fined into bankruptcy, the last Catholic hospital or adoption agency is closed by an A.C.L.U. lawsuit.
There's a general understanding that the ideological mainstream isn't adequate to the moment, but nobody can decide whether that means we need purges or pluralism, a spirit of curiosity and conversation or a furious war against whichever side you think is evil.
Like any good columnist, Charles had deep convictions — on the uniqueness and greatness of America, his devotion to democratic pluralism, and his support for Israel and Zionism; on the wonder and joys of physics, chess and baseball, especially his beloved Washington Nationals.
Religious freedom organizations leapt to condemn Space Force's apparent choice to make an official Bible one of the first steps of standing up the new service, particularly given the important steps the Pentagon has taken to embrace religious pluralism in recent years.
When the territory's chief executive, CY Leung, began his annual policy address last year by mentioning democracy but failed to follow through on how he might achieve greater pluralism, Mr. Tang went to the city's Foreign Correspondents' Club and delivered a blistering speech.
Its leaders made an alliance of convenience with right-wing Christian Zionists, who support the state of Israel as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy and a bulwark of Western values in the Middle East, but care little about pluralism in the United States.
The fight for freedom, pluralism, the rule of law, human rights, a free press, independent judiciaries, breathable air, peace, decency and humanity continues — and has only become more critical now that Britain has marginalized itself irreversibly in a fit of nationalist delusion.
Once viewed as a symbol for the successful integration of former Eastern Bloc countries into the West, Poland is now seen as portending a far darker trend — a turn toward right-wing populism and away from values like pluralism and respect for dissent.
Seven nations are getting together to discuss gender equality with a leader who once bragged about grabbing women's genitals, pluralism and tolerance with politicians who have promised to turn away refugees, and economic cooperation with a country severing ties with its neighbors.
When secular liberals ignore the rise of intolerance fomented by one religious group against another, they risk damaging the values they claim to hold It may come as a surprise to you to learn that pluralism is actually at the heart of the Islamic tradition.
The liberal order has been remarkably resilient, the alternatives still look deeply unappealing – but one cannot assume that this pattern will continue indefinitely, or make political choices as though liberalism, pluralism and democracy are fixed features of the modern landscape, rather than still-contingent things.
"Above all, by adopting such laws the Court found that the authorities had reinforced stigma and prejudice and encouraged homophobia, which was incompatible with the values — of equality, pluralism and tolerance — of a democratic society," the European Court of Human Rights wrote in its decision.
Although pre-election polls suggest Jokowi, 290, is likely to win a second term, he's copped criticism from analysts and former supporters who say he has failed to deliver on issues such as human rights -- and compromised his values of pluralism to score political points.
The mass redecorations are part of Color in Faith, a long and ongoing public art project to celebrate the nation's religious pluralism by inviting Kenyans to transform the exteriors of their local mosques, churches, temples, and synagogues so they are the same bright color.
The sudden prominence of fringe, hardline Muslim groups during the campaign has also raised questions about whether they are being used as political pawns and destabilizing Indonesia, a secular nation with the world's largest Muslim population, often exemplified as a model of religious pluralism.
That pluralism requires three things: firstly a British form of secularism, where freedom of religion, belief and expression are fully protected, provided they do not erode the rights and freedoms of others and no religion or belief has special privileges to the detriment of others.
"Bernie Sanders's socialism is Eisenhower's and F.D.R.'s world if Reagan had never happened: economic security updated by the continuing revolutions in gender, cultural pluralism, and the struggle for racial justice," Jedediah Purdy wrote for The New Yorker in 2015, when Sanders was ascendant.
Had the Supreme Court not hamstrung the federal government from protecting its citizens from massive violence, effectively nullifying the transformative possibilities of the Civil War, the white supremacist hold on national politics might have given way to a far more robust vision of democratic pluralism.
For the left, the tradition had served its purpose as a tool of religious pluralism, but by the 1960s, other forms of diversity seemed more important: The civil rights movement was blossoming and racial equality became the priority for secular and believing liberals alike.
Her first book, "Value in Ethics and Economics," appeared that year, announcing one of her major projects: reconciling value (an amorphous ascription of worth that is a keystone of ethics and economics) with pluralism (the fact that people seem to value things in different ways).
But arguably the most disturbing episode follows the Levins on a long-planned vacation to Washington, D.C. What should be a patriotic, educational family trip becomes a pilgrimage to the fallen monuments of a now-dead pluralism, a frightening recon mission into occupied territory.
In one of his first pronouncements in Medina, he pledged that the Muslim community would defend the native Jewish community from any of its enemies, and declared Medina to be one nation of two faiths, a profound and unusual gesture of pluralism and tolerance.
At Duke, I noticed that, while the jazz world is increasingly defined by pluralism — lapping up influences from across the cultural spectrum — Monk's influence stands tall and firm, a kind of grounding force and perhaps the genre's closest thing to a unit of artistic measure.
But last week the head-scarf-wearing student, Asa Firda Inayah, 18, was standing on the stage of "Rosi," a prominent national talk show, reciting one of her many famous Facebook posts on the importance of pluralism, as inspirational violin music played in the background.
The committee's vice chair, Frank Gaffney, is the founder of the Center for Security Policy, a think tank that argues that mosques and Muslims across America are engaged in a "stealth jihad" to "Islamize" the country by taking advantage of American pluralism and democracy.
Yet this year's best-picture crop may have provided an answer — in the notion that there is no one American story, but a variety of specific and unique American stories, and in the idea that America is a nation of both individualism and pluralism.
The film portrays the matters at the heart of urban living — immigration, tolerance, pluralism, and gentrification among them — through a series of human faces and interactions that show how the things that often get relegated to the realm of politics are actually about people.
Immediately after the result of the 2016 American presidential election was announced, Raechell Smith, curator and director of the H&R Block ArtSpace, called an international assembly of artist together to stage a conversation that advocates for cultural pluralism in a climate of nationalism.
"The award is not just an award to my work and the institution, but mostly a support from your community given to the Polish civil society, academia, judges and lawyers fighting for rule of law, juridical independence, pluralism and protection of minorities in Poland," he said.
I had grown to see the threats to religious liberty in our nation, but I was also concerned about the reactionary responses to these threats from some influential conservative politicians and pundits, responses that I felt would only distract us from the critical work of pluralism.
But elsewhere, rarely making headlines, the pilgrimages continue more peacefully, a gesture to the kind of religious pluralism that the authors of the peace process envisaged even in the crazy-quilt geography of the West Bank, where Palestinian towns and Israeli settlements exist uneasily side by side.
A federal judge on Monday awarded control of the nation's oldest synagogue, in Newport, R.I., to the congregation housed there, ruling against a New York congregation that had claimed ownership in a four-year legal fight between two of the oldest examples of America's religious pluralism.
Evaluated by the criteria of pluralism, media independence, legislative framework, abuses, media environment and self-censorship, transparency, and the quality of the infrastructure that supports the production of news and information, America languishes below Tonga, Ghana, Latvia, Uruguay, Namibia, Slovakia, Costa Rica, and thirty-three other countries.
But despite Brandeis's occasional misfires, his philosophies, as Mr. Rosen convincingly argues, speak powerfully to our times — in his views on the threat that technology poses to privacy, on the importance of pluralism and equality in the Middle East and, perhaps most of all, on economic matters.
Part of the challenge of pluralism is that we're not just walking around with different ideas in our heads, but with entirely different maps for getting from point A to Z, with different roadblocks on them and different recommendations for which road is the best one.
Farhadi was not unsurprised by the uproar and said that all his films are an attempt to start a conversation, though he gently rejected the idea that their moral pluralism was in any way an attempt to inoculate himself against accusations of pushing a particular agenda.
"The law must be general, but this is a rather legalistic approach," Ms. Jourova told reporters, warning that Hungary had also moved "to decrease the power and the influence of civil society" and to inhibit "political pluralism," or the free expression of multiple and competing positions.
The reality is that American Jews are Americans, not Israelis, and while elements of GOP social conservatism appeal strongly to Orthodox Jews, for most Jewish Americans, Jewish values and Jewish identity are tied up with openness and pluralism in a way that makes the GOP a very hard sell.
In a similar vein, while some have criticized our media reforms, which move the power to appoint public radio and TV chiefs from a supervisory committee to the Treasury minister, the goal is to restore a sense of mission within public media while securing independence, objectivity and pluralism.
Since independence India has wobbled between two poles: an attempt to build a constitutionally bound state founded on equal citizenship and pluralism, and what Mr Kesavan calls "a second-hand nationalism derived not from the experience of the anti-colonial struggle but the majoritarian logic of ethnic nationalism".
In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi easily secured a second term, shrugging off a challenge from the Congress Party, which attempted to paint him as a threat to India's secular pluralism, as voters responded to Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) doubling-down on Hindu nationalism and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Mr. Rosen is particularly original on this subject, showing how Brandeis rooted his Zionist thinking in American values of democracy and pluralism — and emphasizing Brandeis's insistence that any Jewish state had to proceed in a spirit of equality, with full political rights and economic inclusion for its Arab citizens.
By embracing each other and working together, we can not only blunt the appeal of ISIS and other extremist groups, but also inspire a majority of Europeans to embrace anew the vision of an inclusive Europe committed to pluralism and freedom of expression for all faiths and ethnic communities.
Stylistic pluralism went hand-in-hand with expressionism — one heightening the other — nowhere more so than in "Die Soldaten" ("The Soldiers"), for which Zimmermann wrote a libretto closely built (at least to begin with) on an 18th-century play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz drawing upon his military service.
"What we're seeing in Israel is no less than a quiet revolution driven from the bottom up by organizations and individuals," said Uri Keidar, executive director of Be Free Israel, an organization that advocates civil rights and pluralism and is one of several offering alternative marriages and unions.
But the ensuing face-off between Mr. Le Pen and Jacques Chirac, of the mainstream right, turned into a display of force by the proponents of French pluralism: Many different camps — the right, the center, the left, the far left — rallied to give Mr. Chirac a crushing victory.
In this richly sourced biography, Blanning uncovers a complex, often contradictory character: a Francophone who despised the German language but whose rule coincided with a flowering of German literature; a misogynist and probable homosexual who detested the values of Christianity but whose kingdom was a model of enlightened pluralism.
While liberal democracy seemed to be ascendant 30 years ago with the fall of the Berlin Wall, ethno-nationalist autocracies have been on the rise this decade, with Russia and China leading a backlash to globalization that offers tribal pride at the expense of pluralism and promises wealth without liberty.
Unofficial results on Wednesday showed former education minister Anies Baswedan of the opposition Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra, eclipsing incumbent Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, commonly known as Ahok, to be Jakarta's next governor in a tight race that has sparked concerns about religious pluralism in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.
But I have seen too much of this suicidal violence for too long to believe that it has nothing to do with the puritanical, anti-gay, anti-transgender, anti-female, anti-religious-pluralism versions of Islam that are too often promoted by sources in the Arab world, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Twitter and Facebook in their current forms have only known a country where Obama is president and, even as he was stymied legislatively by Republicans and renounced by some on the left over his national security policy (see: drones), the voice coming from the bully pulpit preached pluralism and progress.
This "ethno-pluralism," as New Right activists call it, is not based on Western liberal notions of equality or the primacy of individual rights but in opposition to other cultures, usually nonwhite, that they say are threatening to overtake Europe and, indeed, the entire Western world by means of immigration.
I think that France would be much better served by a combination of reduced immigration and the kind of accommodations to its Muslim citizens that the Catholic French philosopher Pierre Manent has proposed, in which secularism gives ground to religious pluralism even as it firmly demands certain forms of assimilation.
For every piece of lighthearted fluff about the significance of the Super Bowl ("On the menu for many: nachos, hot wings, chips and dips, and any food that can be made into a shape of an American football"), there is a pamphlet that makes more ennobling claims about American pluralism.
The delegation of the European Union to El Salvador, expressing "great concern," rightly invoked the importance of the rule of law, respect for political pluralism and separation of powers in its response, but then posited a false equivalency, calling on both the president and the Legislative Assembly to respect institutional independence.
"If the investments and contribution of publishers increase the value of publications but are not compensated by sufficient revenues, the sustainability of publishing industries in the EU may be at stake with the risk of further negative consequences on media pluralism, democratic debate and quality of information," the draft proposals say.

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