Still, Christians and other minorities were singled out in the years of sectarian cleansing that bifurcated a once-diverse Baghdad into pockets of Sunnis and Shiites.
When Nadia first arrived, Fadl asked to have her undergo a ritual cleansing that involved covering her in mud and then placing her over warm embers in a back-yard pit.
It's not so much about finding a community, but about the spiritual reflection and cleansing that the month demands of its participants. .
The group cited specifically the cultural practice of widow cleansing that prohibits women from using condoms during sexual cleansing rituals.
"There is a sort of mental cleansing that goes on".
"We want justice for the ethnic cleansing that happened to us Tamils.
Moreover, there is a tremendous spiritual cleansing that comes with the fast of Ramadan.
One Chechen woman told me of a cleansing that went on for 48 hours.
In the last months of his life, Bill often grumbled about the blood cleansing that kept him alive.
He wanted to say that revolution was a kind of cleansing that conferred its own immortality in a perpetual present.
Before the partisans came, the peninsula was brutally "Italianised" by Mussolini's fascists.If all this brings to mind ethnic cleansing, that may also explain the response in ex-Yugoslavia.
