Wahhabism is the official state religion of Saudi Arabia and is noted for its intolerance and violence.
Some Thai nationalists are even demanding that Buddhism be made the state religion in the new constitution now being drawn up.
As Americans, they are uncomfortable with the notion of a state religion.
The Saudi regime, which has made Wahhabism its official state religion, has spent billions supporting terrorism and spreading hateful Wahhabi militantcy around the world.
Now that Orthodoxy has become a sort of state religion, its ranks have refilled with nationalistic Russians, many of whom were once cheerful Soviet atheists.
According to the survey, 34 percent of Americans would favor making Christianity their official state religion while less than half (47 percent) oppose the concept.
Mr. Siddiqi is a long-time board member of several organizations in the United States funded by, and closely tied to, Saudi Arabia's radical state religion known as Wahhabism.
In Canada these days austerity is practically a state religion.
Communism and its concordant atheism remain the state religion.
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Among early Christians, the millennialists were those, frowned on by Jerome and Augustine, who wanted to keep alive the excitement of a prophetic creed in the face of an institutionalising state religion.
In fact, for some fifty years, Saudi official, royal family and what passes for private sector institutions have been expending untold sums to promote the state religion a virulently intolerant strain of Islam known as Wahhabism.
In fact, for some fifty years, Saudi official, royal family and what passes for private sector institutions have been expending untold sums to promote the state religion -- a virulently intolerant strain of Islam known as Wahhabism.
Like other Saudi-backed Islamist organizations, Hamas has long used educational, religious, medical and other social-support services to ingratiate itself with local populations and to proselytize a virulent brand of radical Islam most closely associated with the state religion of Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism.
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The Saudis whose state religion is Wahhabism fund the spread of their faith in lavishly endowed schools and mosques all over the world and, as a result, traditionally moderate Muslim populations from the Balkans to South Asia have been dramatically radicalized.
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As an aside, it is interesting to note that the same progressives that demand that evolution be elevated to the status of a state religion also fervently deny that evolution could result in fundamental differences between men and women, and between ethnic groups that evolved in different environments.
Later it was expounded on by various Islamic scholars, such as Ibn Taymiiya in the 13th century, but it did not become institutionalized until the mid-18th century when the theories promulgated by the radical cleric Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab were accepted and imposed as the state religion of his realm by the founder of the House of Saud.
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Not surprisingly, Republicans were more likely to support Christianity as the official state and national religion with 55 percent supporting the idea for their state and 46 percent in favor of making their Christian faith the official religion of the United States.
But such talk sounds explosive to French citizens who want to keep state and religion apart.
By asking people to state their religion, or lack of it, the census was asking a complex question.
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It also had the highest percentage of residents who did not state a religion - 8% (693, 000) did not answer.
It stretches beyond the boundaries of state, religion and kinship to take in all individuals, equal in dignity and respect.
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Kosovo, which is considered by nationalists to be the medieval cradle of the Serbian state and religion, declared independence in 2008.
Statisticians believe many Muslims used their legal right not to state their religion in the survey, according to the news website, Der Spiegel.
They agreed to discuss the outstanding issues of state and religion, self-determination for the people of southern Sudan, power-sharing, wealth-sharing and human rights.
This new approach was branded by Turkish columnists as a revision of "laicism", a Turkish term for separation of state from religion.
At least those polled clearly understand that establishing an official religion for their state would require a constitutional amendment as only 11 percent believe the Constitution currently allows a state to establish an official religion while 58 percent do not believe it to be constitutional.
Most believe forcing imams to preach in French would be an unnecessary intrusion by the state into their religion.
In Egypt, secular means freedom from state control of religion, not nonreligious.
Given up the important principle of the State Establishment of religion.
Defining the relationship between religion and the state was certainly easier when it could be assumed that religion's hold over people's lives and behaviour was in long-term decline.
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