Sentence examples for islamic tendencies from inspiring English sources

In a statement to a Tunisian radio station, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's brother has denied that he had Islamic tendencies, and so did some of his neighbours, although he was in jail for minor crimes.

While many opponents object to the Islamic tendencies in the new constitution, he is also under enormous pressure not to give ground to the liberals.

The uyoku are nationalists and traditionalists, and anti-Islamic tendencies have never figured prominently in their agenda.

"Even in so-called Islamic media, the tendency has largely been toward not portraying this war as a religious one," said Atmakusumah Astraatmadja, chairman of Indonesia's independent Press Council.

Because the School of Tehran was dominated by grand scholars who were also jurists, it continued in the Ṣadrian and Sabziwārian tradition, but distanced itself from popular Sufism, with whom they identified relaxed attitude and even antinomian tendencies towards Islamic law (Shari'ah).

The lack of sharia-compliant assets and a tendency for Islamic investors to buy and hold their investments have stunted the secondary market.

The equivalent would have been for a prominent American intellectual to be pro-Soviet in the cold war, or today to have kind words for Islamic Jihad.If Socrates had subversive tendencies, he never acted on them overtly.

(The Wahhabi movement is supported by the Saudi monarchy, among others, and today is one of the fastest growing tendencies in the Islamic world; it is ultra-puritanical and anti-modern; in things like avoiding contact with women or nonbelievers).

The tendency of the Islamic ethic to strengthen the immediate family on the one hand and the community on the other at the expense of the extended family or tribe did not succeed, however.

Another reason may be that the revival of Confucianism is thought to be associated with the revival of Islamic "fundamentalism" and its anti-Western tendencies.

Yet many of our leaders have a tendency to see the Islamic world as a single, terrifying monolith.