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...Instead, Feldman proposed that the constitution should include a clause that acknowledged the role that Islam should play in the country along with the role of democracy...
...final constitution, the language is unique because it specifies that no law can contradict Islam, but in the same sentence, it says that no law can contradict democracy,” Feldman says...
...presently conceived, “respect” and “sensitivity” are the subsidiary platitudes of this vacant multiculturalism. A real sensitivity for other cultures, however, would entail discerning differences, perhaps even more than finding common ground. People who truly respect Islam, for instance, should be able to understand and fear the signs sent by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s millennial behavior: What is not considerate of Islam is to assume that those of its adherents whose theology brooks no separation of civil and religious authority will be motivated by the same incentives that...
...flags of Pakistan's rival political parties waved, for once, in unison. Members of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, of Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League, of conservative Jammat Islamia and fundamentalist Jamiat Ulema Islam, were out in full force, as were thousands of ordinary Pakistanis. Rauf Naizi, a 33-year-old farmer, had been waiting hours for the Chief Justice to pass through Haripur, the halfway point on Chaudhry's route. "The government rents crowds for their rallies, but we are not getting money or food to be here," he said. "We come just...
...Hamra are sitting around makeshift coffee shops waiting for news of the fighting. "We are all supporting the Lebanese army here," says Marwan Zaatar, 33. "These people [in Fatah al-Islam] are not true Muslims. They are a gang of terrorists." That sums up the general mood. There is tension on the front lines, but local Lebanese are in good spirits. It's been a very noisy...