As Tehmina Kazi of British Muslims for Secular Democracy affirmed, "It is no longer enough to simply condemn British militants who join the Islamic State with words.
Norms of relational equality that figure in this scheme would then qualify as principles of justice that all citizens of modern democracies can affirm, and to which we are already implicitly committed.
"I mean, if you had to choose between a genocidal terrorist organisation like Hamas, which believes in the extermination and annihilation of the Jewish people based on its 1988 Charter, and a society like Israel, which is an open, liberal democracy that affirms all the values and rights that Britain does, how could Britain side with a terrorist organisation?
"I mean, if you had to choose between a genocidal terrorist organization like Hamas, which believes in the extermination and annihilation of the Jewish people based on its 1988 charter, and a society like Israel, which is an open, liberal democracy that affirms all the values and rights that Britain does, how could Britain side with a terrorist organization?
The constitution affirms democracy, but the language affirms restriction and power.
If a President advances civil rights because those rights are popular and might excite voters, he affirms democracy's credibility.
What better way to show respect for those who died than by "affirming democracy on that day"?
He starts by affirming democracy, human rights and open markets, insisting that they are not Western exports but fundamental values.
Yet by choosing an icon of the 1968 student movement, the Left Party's nomination responded to a longing among Germans to have a head of state who comes from outside the political establishment, but who also has the moral authority entrusted to the office to affirm democracy.
Some reject U.S.-style democracy without exactly affirming CCP-led autocracy.
