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...whose uncompromising toughness could bring security to Russians. For more than a decade, the Kremlin has waged a brutal war to prevent the secession of the republic of Chechnya. But it has done little to defuse the lethal determination of Chechen terrorists, who Moscow says have links to Islamic fundamentalist groups, including al-Qaeda...
Nowhere are the stakes in Islam's future higher than in the crescent of turmoil that runs from the Persian Gulf states to Pakistan and across North Africa. In several nations, moderates are locked in showdowns for political supremacy with fundamentalists aspiring to create an Islamic empire to challenge the West. Will control of Iraq devolve to the moderate Shi'ites and Sunnis or to the fundamentalist insurgents of both sects who have made parts of the country terrorist sanctuaries? Will pro-democracy reformers in Iran wrest power from the country's aging theocrats or be squelched...
...such sentiments varies, reflecting the diversity of the Islamic world. Only 18% of the world's Muslims are ethnic Arabs. In Southeast Asian countries with sizable Muslim populations, such as Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, radical Islam does not command a wide following. In both Indonesia and Malaysia, Islamic fundamentalist parties have lost political support in recent elections. But a U.S. State Department report on global terrorism warned last year that Muslim communities in the region are vulnerable to the "radical influences" of extremists because of the substantial financing that Islamic schools and mosques continue to receive from wealthy fundamentalists...
...Hours later, a shaken Hasina accused Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's four-party coalition government, which includes two fundamentalist Islamic parties, of carrying out the attack in a bid to destroy the Awami League, traditionally the country's liberal, non-Islamist party. "How can a well-planned assassination attempt take place in the heart of Dhaka without the complicity and involvement of the government?" she told TIME. The government flatly denies the charge, calling it "ridiculous," but Hasina's followers are in no mood to believe this. Bangladesh's already polarized political culture?in which the ruling party...
...government's critics claim it is failing to crack down on violence by religious extremists partly because it needs the support of two Islamic fundamentalist parties to stay in power. Prothom Alo editor Rahman says one of the politicians leading the angry demonstrations against his newspaper is a lawmaker from an Islamic party that is part of the ruling coalition. Former Foreign Minister Hossain remarks: "It is almost an irresistible inference that what has been allowing [the terrorists] to carry on their attacks with impunity is that they have patrons and protectors in high places." Zia's adviser Chowdhury denies...