Good news.A group of 27 religious and other leaders has joined together to end the use of torture torture, the intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering in order to intimidate, coerce, obtain information or a confession, or punish. . Coordinated by the National Religious Campaign to Abolish Torture, figures such as Jimmy Carter, Purpose Driven Life author Rick Warren, Sayyid Syeed ' Biography Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed, Secretary General of the Islamic Society of North America, ISNA, a national community leader, is chief executive officer of this Plainfield, IN – suburban Indianapolis – based national umbrella organization which has more than 300 of the Islamic Society of North America The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), based in Plainfield, Indiana, USA, is an umbrella group that describes itself as the largest Muslim organization in North America. , and retiring Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick signed "Torture Is a Moral Issue," a statement that argues that torture violates the basic dignity of the human person. "Torture is a dehumanizing and terrible attack against human nature," said McCarrick in a June 7 press conference. |
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