Mosques, like other religious institutions, are not exempt from such considerations, but objections must be backed up by studies or other hard data (missing here) and may not be used as a pretext to discriminate against a religion seeking to build a house of worship.
In 1997, under the pretext of concern about mad cow disease, Ratsiraka obstructed Ravalomanana's plans to build a farm stocked with imported high-yield milk cows.
As a result, Bush is now forced to run around the Arabian states along the Persian Gulf in an effort to build an anti-Iranian alliance and find a pretext for keeping a strategic presence in the region.
To shift the offshore patrol vessels from South Australia to Perth after two ships being built on the pretext that South Australia can't do both is reckless, it's a highly political decision, it's bad for the nation's taxpayers and it's bad for the nation's security," he said.
He added: "Even though the road should not be built, we believe the fish should not be used as a pretext".
A year later, Iraq is no longer a pretext or an abstraction.
The document notes that some officials have tried to use the economic crisis "as a pretext to attack the single market," which, Mr. Barroso wrote, the commission regards as "the rock on which European growth is built".
September 11th was a pretext.
But decommissioning is a pretext.
