• • John Walker Lindh Doesn't Deserve the Right to Pray 
J.K. Gregg, American Thinker Individual Rights  |Objectivist author  | What is important to remember, especially in times of war, is that individual rights are not absolute. They are contextual absolutes, existing only within certain conditions. Contrary to the idea that rights are gifts from a god or permissions from a benevolent government, rights are, as philosopher Ayn Rand put it, "conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival," but more specifically, "a 'right' is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context."   Published: 2012-09-01