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ALGIERS: As voters go to the polls for the first national elections in five years, it says a lot about what life has become in Algeria that nearly two dozen people could be killed by bombs in Algiers in the previous week -- and observers remarked at the relative quiet. More than 60,000 have been killed in the struggle between the government and the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) since the Islamic party, which looked sure to gain control of the government in the 1992 elections, was outlawed after an army coup. Hoping to establish legitimacy after coming to power...
Stansky: Not necessarily. It also calls for the same thing that I have done every day here, and that is worry about the company's fundamentals. I can't do anything about a war in Algeria. Let's look at the valuation of a stock relative to the companies in its group and then relative to the whole market...
...based on the actions of this one individual. Likewise, it is unfair to characterize every grass roots Islamic group as terrorists. True, some Islamic groups are fanatical terrorists--the Taliban in Afghanistan, for example. However, that does not preclude the existence of legitimate Islamic groups like the FIS in Algeria, which is fighting for social justice. My article was simply pointing out a double standard. I do not propose to eliminate the double standard by stereotyping Jews; I simply mean to say that we should stop stereotyping Moslems...
...recent seizure of Kabul by fundamentalist forces to illustrate his fears of Islamic violence; in fact, the victory of the Taliban brings the country closer to the resolution of the civil war to which the U.S. has abandoned Afghanistan following the Soviet withdrawal. Nelson also points to Algeria and Turkey as countries which have embraced Islamic fundamentalism and threaten "freedom." As the defender of freedom, Nelson should have pointed out that in both countries, Islamic fundamentalists came to power legitimately through the democratic process. In Algeria, the military's suppression of democratic electoral results which awarded victory to the Islamic...
...understand this lack of response, we must seek to comprehend why Eric Nelson holds Islamic "fundamentalism" to be a danger warranting the sacrifice of his own valued democratic principles. Nelson boldly generalizes, "Almost as a rule, these Islamic revolutions turn to tyranny and terror...". Neither Algeria nor Turkey, examples of Islamic fundamentalism cited by Nelson, were "revolutions" that overturned the existing order; in fact, the Refah, a Turkish Islamic party, operated willingly and effectively within the existing democratic system. Algeria descended into chaos because the world looked on and allowed the suppression of democratic results, not because of the Islamic...