Word: islamicism
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"The most treacherous government is Britain," Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, intoned at Friday prayers on June 19, and I had to laugh. The Supreme Leader, in the midst of announcing a crackdown on the Green Revolution demonstrators, was sounding like the lead...
The danger does not only come from drug lords and the Taliban. Afghan journalists say their government is not making reporting any easier. Islamic hard liners, former warlords and corrupt officials, they explain, are behind an increasingly harsh assault on press freedom - one of the country's key post-Taliban...
Despite a week of consistent protests following a disputed presidential election in Iran, most Harvard Middle East scholars interviewed in recent days said they doubt the Iranian opposition will succeed in ushering their own reform-minded candidate into power, though the professors said the events have left the Islamic Republic...
Kennedy School Professor Graham T. Allison, whose specialties include Iran and international defense, said that the outcome of those protests is more likely to resemble Tiananmen Square in 1989 rather than Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979. But he added that recent elections, whose results he said were...
Al-Shabaab, originally the armed wing of the Islamic Courts Union - the government Ethiopia toppled in 2006-07 - also grew into something far more menacing during its resistance and eventual defeat of Ethiopian forces, attracting vocal support from Osama bin Laden, imposing the strictest Shari'a law and attracting hundreds...