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...Your coverage was good, but I was surprised that you dedicated half of it to Aryn Baker's story "Beyond Faith," giving readers the impression that Islam plays a big part in Indian life. Roughly only 1 out of 10 Indians is Muslim, and 60 years of independence have produced a functioning secular democracy in India and a failed Islamic state in Pakistan. Pakistan would have disintegrated into warring ethnic provinces had it not been for the billions of dollars that the U.S. poured into the coffers of military dictators and generals. Can we let India be India and Pakistan...
...real clout. Being in opposition allows the PJD to build its base without appearing to be doing the monarchy's bidding. It may be true that the Moroccan regime has postponed constitutional reform that would signal clear commitment to democratization. Nonetheless, its strategy of accommodating, rather than attacking, political Islam should be closely followed throughout the Middle East and the West...
Turkey today passed a political landmark when, for the first time in its history, a politician rooted in political Islam was elected President. Bringing four months of government turmoil to an end, Abdullah Gul won the post on the third round of balloting by the nation's parliament...
...beginning of a new period of compromise, or the start of secularist-Islamist strife?" wrote columnist Mehmet Ali Birand. A former foreign minister, Gul is widely known as a coalition builder who played a key role in Turkey's European Union membership bid, but his background in political Islam makes him unpalatable to secularists...
...Yazidis have their own extremists: earlier this year, members of the community stoned to death a young woman they accused of converting to Sunni Islam to marry her lover. A widely distributed video of the stoning inflamed Sunni sentiments; in retaliation, insurgents executed 23 Yazidi factory workers near Mosul. With reporting by Andrew Lee Butters