Tag Archive | "democracy"
Posted on 10 May 2013. Tags: democracy, families, feminism, gender roles, human rights, men's rights, modernism
he issue of Men’s Rights has recently come a long way since it first branched off from the men’s liberation movement in the early 1970′s. Formed in response to second-wave feminism, the MRM often opposes what they feel to be societal changes sought by feminists. Today, the Men’s Right’s Movement continues to gain traction among in [...]
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Posted in Most Recent, Society
Posted on 08 September 2012. Tags: activists, Arab Spring, democracy, Libya, occupy wall street, Protests, slutwalk, Syria
The belief that the masses are a power that can really influence history, or even more so, throw down the established order is part of the propaganda of the French and American Revolutions, and is one of the most effective myths of modern society. The notion that any of these movements succeed because of popular support, or [...]
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Posted in Current Events, Economy, Most Recent, North America
Posted on 23 August 2012. Tags: democracy, elections, government, voting
Democracy is one of the championed pillars and ideals of the modern world- it is consistently toted as a sign of “progress” and development, and as a way to make society the happiest. To call a government a dictatorship is a slur, and the western media describes governments it opposes as undemocratic, totalitarian, authoritarian, etc, [...]
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Posted in History, Most Recent, Other, Politics, Society, Uncategorized
Posted on 14 August 2012. Tags: democracy, government, monarchy
Monarchy is a principle as old as history itself. The natural order of human history was with notable exception a society based around a king and his court, or the chief and his tribe from the noble to the yeoman down to the serf. It is a principle which was held to have an authority [...]
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Posted in Culture, History, Politics, Society
Posted on 02 April 2012. Tags: conservatism, democracy, election, elections, Europe, France, immigration, Islam, leftism, LePen, liberalism, Marine, Nationalism, shariah, socialism
What follows below is the conclusion of the translation of Albert Ali’s article, “Osons Marine?” in which he tackles the issue of institutional Islamophobia among various French political factions, and concludes with some comments on why Marine Le Pen is a possible candidate for some French Muslims. The first part of Ali’s article, as well [...]
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Posted in Current Events, Society
Posted on 30 March 2012. Tags: Albert Ali, conservatism, democracy, election, elections, Europe, France, immigration, Islam, leftism, LePen, Marine, Nationalism, socialism
Note from the Editors: This article originally appeared in French under the title “Osons Marine?” on the website of Albert Ali, a French-Muslim writer as a response to the President of the Muslim Collective of France. The latter had made statements warning Muslims against voting for the “Far Right” party Front National in the upcoming French [...]
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Posted in Current Events, Europe, Politics, Religion
Posted on 18 February 2012. Tags: Arab Spring, Assad, democracy, interventionism, middeast, NATO, Syria, uprising, war
To the Editor: I have been a frequent reader of RidingTheTiger, and have thus far been impressed by the quality of the articles. The authors have presented interesting facts in a clear manner, and for this I thank them. As we watch the current situation in Syria unfold, I’d like to weigh in with some [...]
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Posted in Current Events, Letters, Middle East, Politics
Posted on 10 September 2011. Tags: 9/11, democracy, freedom, interventionism, liberalism, liberty, New York, September 11th, terrorism, United States
This article was contributed by Xiaochen Su in London. The ceremonies are certainly as solemn as they have ever been. Across the nation, people remembered that pivotal day exactly ten years ago, when America bore witness to a whole new kind of terrorism. As buildings collapsed and lives lost, the Americans everywhere were forced to [...]
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Posted in Current Events
Posted on 06 July 2011. Tags: Catholicism, democracy, interventionism, modernism, Pius X, Pope, Protestantism, secularism
On 8 September 1907, Pope St. Pius X issued the encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis, which condemned modernism in relation to the Roman Catholic religion, which, in part, translated from the original Latin, reads: Undoubtedly, were anyone to attempt the task of collecting together all the errors that have been broached against the faith and to [...]
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Posted in Religion
Posted on 20 June 2011. Tags: conservative, democracy, democrats, election, liberal, McCain, modernism, Obama, republicans, voting
Election time is approaching in the United States of America, and along with it all the warm and fuzzy rhetoric about continuing commitments to democracy, freedom, and equality, so that nobody need question the intentions of any political candidate. I probably won’t be voting in the 2012 election, probably not for whatever shill the Republicans [...]
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Posted in Politics