Word: clericism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...create in Iraq may not be the one it gets. To achieve a stable, free Iraq, there's no going around the power?and preferences?of ... Sistani." I doubt, however, that Sistani would ever cooperate with a pro-U.S. regime in Iraq. After all, your story quoted the cleric as telling citizens to ask the Americans they meet, "When are you leaving Iraq?" Christopher Rushlau Mosul, Iraq...
...Sunni mosques, has spent much of the past year loudly decrying the political process on the grounds that any vote would be tainted if it were conducted during the U.S.-led occupation. The A.M.S. seemed to soften its stance last month when Abdul Salam al-Qubaisi, a high-ranking cleric, told TIME the group would confer its blessings on some candidates. "We will not be candidates, but we will support the election," he said. "We will support people with the right qualifications"--meaning those not associated with the U.S.-backed interim government. Al-Qubaisi was even cautiously optimistic that...
...Omar al-Mukhtar, worshippers who ask that question of al-Nasseri get a carefully weighed answer. A senior cleric in the A.M.S., he shares not only the Sunni clergy's intense dislike of the U.S. but also its distrust of a political process sponsored by "the occupying power." But unlike many of his fellow clerics, he believes Sunnis should hold their noses and dive in. He is advising his flock to vote. "The important thing is for us to have a say in the future of Iraq," he says. "If we stay out of the elections, then we lose...
...station and ordered the crowd to disperse. Shortly after?in what proved to be the military's last attempt at a peaceful solution before taking action?one of Narathiwat's most senior Islamic figures, Abdulrazak Ali, arrived to mediate. "They wouldn't listen to me," says Abdulrazak, a cleric. "There were a few radicals among the protesters, controlling the minds of everyone else." Deputy police commander Vuttichai Hanhaboon, a Buddhist who has spent 10 years in the south, watched the events unfold from his perch on the second-floor balcony of the station. "I looked down on the crowd...
...also encouraged the curious alliance of the religious al-Sadr and the secular Ahmad Chalabi, former U.S. favorite, who see in each other a way to trump Sistani's power. The ayatullah is agitating for changes that would give Islamic parties aligned with him a higher profile. While the cleric has not tried to negotiate the specifics, observers say that is as far into the grit of politics as he has ventured. He has to show Shi'ites that the election can benefit them, says Katzman. If it doesn't, he risks a damaging loss of legitimacy among ordinary...