Word: entrenchment
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...vote was a test of support for Saudi liberals who have long been overwhelmed by conservatives loosely allied with the ruling Al Saud dynasty. A conundrum in President Bush's State of the Union call for democracy in Saudi Arabia, al Ammari says, is the risk that elections could entrench religious conservatives, not liberal reformers, in elected office. ?They will make the country more conservative, while we want it to open up,? says Al Ammari. ?We have to open our minds and be part of the world...
...despair among these advocates. But you would be wrong. Within minutes after losing the Senate vote, they were preparing to introduce a similar measure into the House, knowing full well that there is no hope of passage. But success at this juncture is not important. In fact, failure helps entrench the sense of alienation and anger that is already being stoked for political ends. The members of the religious right have therefore achieved what they set out to achieve. They have used this issue to galvanize parts of the evangelical base, just as President Bush's political mastermind, Karl Rove...
...French culture, and combating extremism fail to see an important point: the ban will lead to the very things it claims to oppose. Muslim girls who choose to wear headscarves will be forced to leave the mainstream society by lack of being afforded a public education. This will further entrench the fragmentation of French society. It will lead to a whole community of economically deprived, marginalized, ghettoized, and privately educated youth who feel antagonism towards the French republic for helping to aggravate their situation, instead of improving it. Since they will be segregated from mainstream society and perceived as belonging...
That Bush may win a second term as President is more than worrying. To think he may be given another four years to entrench his good-vs.-evil foreign policy while destroying everything standing in his line of fire (including relationships with allies such as France) underestimates the intelligence of the American people. I wasn't one of those who followed the European fashion of protesting Bush's policy on Iraq just because it was war, but I can't see that the war improved anything. Terrorism is still a threat, and the Iraqis are still unhappy. For the sake...
...effect, Plavsic admitted Bosnian Serb troops co-operated with Yugoslav army units - evidence that could be used to help secure the conviction of former President Slobodan Milosevic. BELARUS My God Is Your God The Senate approved a bill that would restrict the activities of small religious communities and help entrench the dominant position of the Orthodox Church. The bill banned organized prayer by groups of less than 20 people and prohibited religious communities that have been in Belarus for less than 20 years from publishing literature or setting up missions. MIDDLE EAST Courtroom Rage Scuffles broke out in court between...