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The brutality of Isis is increasingly at odds with his own views, which have mellowed with age as he has come to believe that the teachings of the Qur'an can be interpreted and not read literally.
The end of European colonialism in the Muslim world in no way diminished the immediacy of that challenge nor the venality, brutality and incompetence of local regimes.
I would simply note that, as we said yesterday, the regime's violence and brutality in these days leading up to the Eid holiday has continued unabated.
The strike could never have happened without the women's groups, on the picket, facing immense brutality and sexual harassment from the police, who called them "Scargill's slags".
The litany of brutality, lawlessness and lack of accountability serves as a reminder of what a horrible decision President Obama made at the outset of his administration to close the books on this chapter in our history, even as he repudiated the use of torture.
The intrigue, the brutality and the passion continue unabated.
Still, Johnson advocates more empathy than political brutality: "I believe that when talented people have something to offer a society and a community they should be given the benefit of the doubt".
Yes. Do you ever take the violence and brutality of some of your characters away with you?
As heavily armed soldiers continued rolling into the city in armoured vehicles on Tuesday, embattled authorities in Baltimore were struggling to control a growing crisis in their city, long notorious for urban blight and accusations of police brutality.
Outside mining areas, antagonism – more against Scargill himself than his members – encouraged scepticism about police brutality and the manufacture of evidence against peaceful pickets.
