After all, what was being enforced went far beyond sharia or Saudi Wahhabism, so many of whose tenets are similar to those of Isis.
For a movement whose tenets are supposedly drawn from the religious norms of the 7th century CE, Isis has a very modern and manipulative approach to dominating the news agenda by means of attention-grabbing PR stunts in which merciless violence plays a central role.
Gaza was never a place with a quantitative food shortage; it is a place where many people lack the means to buy food and other goods because of a closure policy whose tenets are "no development, no prosperity, and no humanitarian crisis", Gisha, the Legal Centre for the Freedom of Movement, explained in a press release.
A gentler strand in Islāmic eschatology produced, over the centuries, a series of reinterpretations or adaptations of the original doctrine, some of whose tenets were even claimed to have been only metaphorical.
And it's that rare business book whose tenets, which are based on being an ambitious realist, have not become the stuff of parody.
They espouse a philosophy whose main tenets are a belief in "nature" and the sanctity of childhood.
Read it to remember that "liberal" is a label with a proud, patriotic history and one whose primary tenets are shared by supermajorities of the American people.
In her more than eighty movies, she played flappers, working girls, adulteresses, matrons, and, most notably, the anguished heroines of melodrama — women embracing the reality principle whose iron tenets are that life is hard, satisfaction elusive, and happiness never without cost.
Mohandas grew up in a home steeped in Vaishnavism worship of the Hindu god Vishnu with a strong tinge of Jainism, a morally rigorous Indian religion whose chief tenets are nonviolence and the belief that everything in the universe is eternal.
And I suppose that my friends and I sought it out among Christian preachers rather than among ecstatic Hasidim precisely because of the sharp doctrinal difference: as Jews, we might have seen ourselves as part of a continuum with Hasidic believers whose basic tenets were as distant from us as pastrami on white with mayo.
From its opening scene, in which Meir (Yoram Hattab), a brilliant young Talmudic scholar, gives thanks to God in his morning prayers that he wasn't born a woman, "Kadosh" inveighs against a zealous religious fundamentalism, one of whose central tenets is a profound and shocking misogyny.
