There is no religious justification for this practice.

Yusuf has taken a stance against religious justifications for terrorist attacks.

Most laws have their roots in Islamic jurisprudence, and without strong religious justification they cannot be changed.

Asked why he had fired into the crowd, he claimed a religious justification.

There is no cultural or religious justification for the structural violation of universal human rights.

In democratic States, there is no religious, political or economic justification for recourse to terrorism.

Then, they came up with historical, religious and health-oriented justifications.

"There is no religious justification for such laws."

The police said they believed that the sermons offered a religious justification to the extremists who organized the attacks.