By undertaking a culture war, religious conservatives strengthened the public distaste for religious combat and enhanced the public appreciation for religious tolerance.
Given that your main concern with Al Qaeda is that it has lost the connection to religious combat, this seemed like kismet, and just like that we came up with Qaravan: strong, memorable, familiar, and also nostalgic.
Last August, Prime Minister Fayyad pledged, in a widely broadcast speech, to use the West Bank's public education system to combat religious and political fanaticism.
The bishops have power but no influence, and the notion that you need a tough-minded movement to combat religious influence still feels quaint.
A separate, less spectacular office block not far away in the West End houses the Tony Blair Foundation, a multitasking charitable outfit that sponsors international programmes to combat religious extremism in over 30 countries.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate and likely presidential candidate, wrote on his Twitter feed on May 8, "Urgent measures required to combat religious extremism and intolerance before Egypt slides into the dark ages".
Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the UN nuclear watchdog and a presidential hopeful, called for "urgent measures … to combat religious extremism and intolerance before Egypt slides into the dark ages".
And so in Denham's open-handed advocacy of the religious potential to combat racism, and rebuild a common and thriving civil society, there may also be glimpses of better policy on the way from his department: his predecessor but one Ruth Kelly, for example, was so steeped in one strand of Catholicism that coming to terms with the democratic change of mood on equalities was, for her, problematic.
Organizing faith groups to combat religious extremism.
The more recent Resolution 16/18, however, broke with that tradition by calling for concrete, positive measures to combat religious intolerance rather than legal measures that restrict speech.
Although the Anglican mass emphasises the Epistle to the Romans, Swift relied on Corinthians in order to combat religious schismatic tendencies in a similar manner to his criticism of dissenters in "On Mutual Subjection".
