Sentence examples for tolerant interpretation from inspiring English sources

These states are not promoting an inclusive, progressive and tolerant interpretation of Islam that could be the foundation of people power.

The officers involved told themselves, "In intelligence, the stakes involved and the interests of national security may permit a more tolerant interpretation of moral-ethical values".

Another woman described, how when she attended a madrasa in the 1980s, she was raised on what she described as a peaceful and tolerant interpretation of Islam; an understanding of Islam that embraced British society rather than rejecting it.

He believes that, ultimately, the bigger, more important, struggle may not be between autocracy and democracy, but between Egypt's traditionally more tolerant interpretation of Islam and the more extreme Wahhabi view which was imported to the country in the 1980s from Saudi Arabia.

Viewing video images of a blissed-out Qaradhawi after his Moroccan "wedding," Wadi' felt he saw in the spectacle a kind of sexual imperialism: a new Brotherhood "conquest" in Morocco; a dose of manly Islamism for a woman whose country's tolerant interpretation of Islam is commonly derided by the Brotherhood as "effeminate".

This schism would have significant consequences on the development of Islamic law: the rationalists were more eager to apply reason and scholarly judgment, while the traditionists favored literal — and ultimately far less tolerant — interpretations.

Indeed, as I have argued before, the group is committed to a tolerant and democratic interpretation of Islam that has individual choice as its basis and respects popular elections as the sole criterion for a government's legitimacy.

Furthermore, educators should be tolerant of diverse interpretations of spirituality and have a broad understanding of spirituality deriving from different religious contexts.

Changing what is taught in the schools, then, may be a necessary first step toward spreading the tolerant and open-minded interpretation of Islam that many Muslims feel is their birthright.

The prayer book allowed for the coexistence within one institution of distinctly different interpretations of Christianity, with the unofficial designations of High Church (those parishes inclined toward a more Roman Catholic orientation), Low Church (evangelicals), and Broad Church (those Anglicans tolerant of wide doctrinal interpretations).

For the scholar of fairytales, this is a collection to treasure, gorgeously presented in its gold and turquoise binding, intelligently translated and saturated with the ancient, exotic, playful, romantic, multifaceted and tolerant culture which the Wahhabi interpretation of Arab faith has done its best to obliterate.