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...after she was fired for refusing to adjust her headscarf. Europe is home to some 12.5 million Muslims who suffer high unemployment - and, since Sept. 11 - growing mistrust from non-Muslims. One sign of the tension came when the French government tried to create a representative council for French Islam. French Muslim organizations were set to choose their representatives last June, but Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy canceled the elections. The reason: the vote would have given the majority to the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF), a federation representing the majority of France's 1,500 mosques. The UOIF...
...makes." In the social realm, Assem grants that Shari'a is more restrictive than Western norms and lifestyles. "Women are to be admired, not used for cigarette advertisements," he says. But he blames later traditions not derived from Shari'a for the extreme subjugation of women in the Islamic world - and his wife, Sana, agrees. Though the U.S. bears the brunt of the criticism in the party magazine, explizit , Assem argues that Hizb ut-Tahrir doesn't blame the Americans for everything that goes wrong in the Islamic world. "Our message is that America has an exploitative value system," Assem...
...March and May of this year, according to a senior Kurdish official, American teams from the Defense Department and the CIA visited Iraqi Kurdistan to investigate Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist group that has been linked to al-Qaeda and that has its base in caves on the border between Iraq and Iran. (The Americans didn't hide their presence; they drove black Grand Cherokee SUVs with communications gear on the roof, not exactly common in Kurdistan.) The U.S. teams promised the Kurds that they would be back, and they have kept their word. U.S. officials tell TIME that within...
...religious arm, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council, or VHP), warns that what little control the BJP, or even he, exercises over the Hindu mob would evaporate if Modi were to lose on Dec. 12. "It will mean people are no longer prepared to defend themselves against Islam democratically," he states. "The masses will take the law into their own hands; there will be civil war." As the mascot of the far right, Modi benefits greatly from such political blackmail. "This is the start of something," he says, gazing out at the crowds swarming around his campaign...
...despite growing fears, doubts remain that there are more than a handful of fanatical militants in the region willing to die for their cause. The vast majority of the region's Muslims practice a moderate, tolerant form of Islam that utterly rejects the idea that slaughtering innocent civilians is a method of holy warfare. Gunaratna concedes that when it comes to the crunch, most militants balk at kamikaze-style attacks. He recounts a telling anecdote about Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, the suspected leader of the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiah (JI), widely blamed for the Bali blasts and other deadly...