The two are not the same and should not be spoken of as the same, but there is a point to be made about them both sharing a sense of preserving the cleanliness of a space through "ritualised" acts of eradicating the "defilement": the woman who "defiles" the family's purity, or the Muslim who "defiles" that of the nation.
The 1930s were filled with efforts to purify the race, encourage a high birth rate among the most "Aryan" in the ethnic German population and stamp hard on anything that smacked of race defilement, including abortion, prostitution and homosexuality.There were grim ironies in all this.
But Mr Will's column discourages reasoned conversation not only by characterising a proposal to alter the status quo conventions about corporate rights as "proposed vandalism of the Bill of Rights"—that is, as the defilement of our sacred civic text but also by very shadily associating the proposal with the idea that it's morally okay to slay newly-baked babies.
Several witnesses are dead or cannot remember, much evidence is long lost, and Uganda's legal system is often unable to deal with the simplest crimes, let alone this one.Mr Mukiibi, who takes the official court record in longhand, is juggling 30 cases before him this session, over half of which involve the crime of "defilement" (the age of consent is treated as a rough guideline in much of Uganda).
People thronged the Meiji stadium to watch them play, most barely minding (though Shoriki did) that the home sides usually lostNot everyone was so thrilled: a madcap group called the "War God Society" protested at the Americans' "defilement" of grounds sacred to the Meiji emperor.
By the 10th day, the near relatives have purged some of the defilement (mṛitaka sutaka) they incurred from the death, and the chief mourner and a priest are ready to carry out the first śrāddha (ritual of respect).
Iran's defilement was removed by the swelling tide of Shīʿism, which bore Ismāʿīl to the throne his family was to occupy without interruption until 1722, in one of the greatest epochs of Iranian history.
The human struggle has a negative aspect, nonetheless, in that it must strive for purity and avoid defilement by the forces of death, contact with dead matter, etc.
If a Hindu "breaks caste" by becoming either a Muslim or a Christian, a death ceremony is conducted, the relatives bathe to purge their defilement, and the person's name is never mentioned again.
In some parts of India it is believed that the souls of the really wicked depart through the rectum, and in so doing acquire such defilement that endless purification is necessary.
The ceremonial defilement of relatives is short, lasting only three days.
