Word: badawi
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...decades in power, poor health may finally force 76-year-old Prime Minister Mahathir to step down. But the Prime Minister's designated successor, the charismatic Anwar Ibrahim, languishes in jail after being been convicted of corruption and sodomy in two controversial trials. Although Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi is set to take over, few see him as more than a place holder. One intriguing possibility: should Mahathir depart, Anwar might take advantage of his status as the only leader who can heal the bitter wounds caused by his downfall - not to mention the many questions hanging over his convictions...
Moderate Muslim leaders scoff at Butt as a self-publicist. But Zaki Badawi, principal of London's Muslim College, warns that "the idea that you can cut off the head of al-Qaeda and the body will wither is not going to happen." Ranstorp agrees. Though al-Qaeda's lair in Afghanistan may have been smashed, he says, "The snake has already laid a thousand eggs, which are hatching and slipping off in all directions." Foremost among them Britain...
...that influence could well spread to the Muslim world as a whole. For Zaki Badawi, chairman of the Imams and Mosques Council of Britain, Muslims in the West are helping to answer the question that has haunted Islam for the past century: how to reconcile tradition and modernity. "Islam, like any other society, finds modernity challenging," Badawi says. Although that challenge is felt more acutely in the developing world, intellectuals in those countries don't have the freedom to analyze the problem and find effective solutions. "The tension between Islam and modernity will be answered by thinkers in the West...
...Badawi said that although terrorist attacks may be perpetrated by members of other religions, those religions are never linked with such attacks in the same manner as Islam...
...Badawi also expressed reservations on the evidence that had so far been presented to the public, claiming that the will that was said to have been found in one of the hijackers’ luggage did not appear to have been written by someone whose native tongue was Arabic. He also noted the oddity of taking a will on board a doomed plane...