Indian officials and elites protested the arrest as a political affront as well as a cultural misunderstanding.
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The A. P. said Mr. Maliki had used the Arabic word tajawiz, which can be translated either as affronts or challenges.
The ruling upheld a challenge by the Islamic Defenders Front, a vigilante group known for occasionally smashing up bars that it views as affronts to Islam and forcibly closing Christian churches and the mosques of Muslim minorities.
What also made the party seem out of step were some of the positions espoused by the elder Mr. Yadav, who once opposed the use of English and computers as affronts to traditional Indian culture and village industries.
The pageant has drawn heavy criticism in recent months from radical organizations, including the Islamic Defenders Front, a vigilante group known to smash bars, restaurants and nightclubs that they see as affronts to Islam.
Officials are untroubled by the clash between the city's famously freewheeling capitalism and the Communist Party's ideology, yet still see religion and its symbols as affronts to the party's atheism.Christians in China have long suffered persecutiont.
Harper described the killings as "affronts to the values that unite all civilized people".
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The European Court of Human Rights unanimously denounced the proscriptions as affronts to the right of freedom of assembly and of association.
