"I thought it was sacrilege, " says Jackson, who describes himself as a devout Catholic.
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While such shrines are highly revered by Shiites, a number of Sunni radicals believe they amount to sacrilege.
Some consider it sacrilege to write about Bologna without mentioning the town's most famous eatery, Al Pappagallo .
Judging by the polls, pundits and prognostications on the issue, few seem to be taking Kobe's sacrilege seriously.
Other surprises include Sacrilege - a life-sized inflatable replica of Stonehenge by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller.
Turns out this summertime sacrilege traces to a butcher shop in Hugo, Minn.
That means a talented early-30s engineer can easily out-earn a laggard several years his senior -- sacrilege under seniority pay plans.
"To auction these would be, in my opinion, a sacrilege - a criminal gesture that contains grave moral repercussions, " he said.
His installations include a recreation of a 1984 confrontation between police and striking miners and an inflatable model of Stonehenge entitled Sacrilege.
It would be sacrilege because that's not what Royal Melbourne is about.
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Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege, " has launched a guerrilla campaign of bombings and shootings across Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north.
And then the presen- tation is treated as if it were the Gospel and to change one word of it would be a sacrilege.
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Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege, " has been attacking government buildings and security forces over the last year and a half.
It's probably sacrilege these days to say anything positive about decisions made privately in smoke-filled rooms (and the Blackstone is a no-smoking-anywhere-on-the-premises hotel today, anyway).
To the Communists, the abandonment of November 7th is a sacrilege.
Lopping off the roof of a 911 is design sacrilege.
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The FMB Coalition is not perpertrating its sacrilege everywhere.
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Yet in 1923, when Steichen effectively defected from the art world for a lucrative magazine and advertising career (he would later burn all his painted canvases), the idea of merging art and commerce was sacrilege.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria's north, has said it wants its imprisoned members freed and Nigeria to adopt strict Shariah law across the multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people.
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Bush's views were nothing short of sacrilege not only for the Arabs and the Europeans, but for Washington's foreign policy establishment, headquartered at the State Department and the CIA. For the men and women of these bureaucracies, Bush's recognition that the Arab regimes they championed were the primary source of regional instability and anti-Americanism was a repudiation of everything they worked for.
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