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...terrorists, whose bombing campaign has claimed hundreds of lives since 2002, profess their violence is justified by Salafi teachings-even if most conservative clerics disagree. "If we don't promote a smiling Islam, then we will be seen overseas as a hotbed of radicalism and terrorism," says Syafi'i Anwar, executive director of the International Center for Islam and Pluralism in Jakarta. "We must protect the portrait of Indonesia as a bastion of moderate Islam...
...Israeli leaders thought a rapid negotiation would give their state some security in return for most of the captured land going back to the Arabs. But there came only more wars -- the War of Attrition in 1969-70, the October War of 1973. Only in 1977 did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat break the stalemate by traveling to Jerusalem to set a partial peace in motion. In 1979 Israel agreed to return all of the Sinai to Egypt in return for the formal peace treaty negotiated with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Jimmy Carter at Camp David. That event...
Ever since Muslim fundamentalists assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981, Egyptian authorities have been jittery about a resurgence of Islamic extremism. Last week their vigilance paid off. Four junior army officers and 29 civilians were indicted on charges that they planned to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak in a "holy war." The government said some of the plotters, who were arrested last April, were allegedly linked to the fundamentalist group responsible for killing Sadat...
...have to guard against people who want to turn Indonesia into another Saudi Arabia," says Syafi'i Anwar, executive director of the International Center for Islam and Pluralism in Jakarta. "But in this political climate, if you say you are against the Shari'a bylaws, people say you are a bad Muslim, so no wonder so many are afraid to speak...
...Complicating matters is what Anwar calls "a global radical Islamic resurgence" that gains legitimacy from its vociferous opposition to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Although Indonesia desperately needs to attract foreign investment, which has lagged since the bombing campaign started, President Bush remains uniformly unpopular. The U.S. is expected to roll out tens of millions of dollars in funding for health, anti-poverty and education schemes during Bush's Monday visit. But such handouts may do little to convince many Indonesians of American goodwill. "I do not trust Bush," says Mizram, a 20-year-old student who joined...