Word: islamicism
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Ask locals about Sarajevo's Islamic resurgence and most rush to point out that the city is still mainly secular. People continue to pack its many bars, and plenty of women wear revealing outfits. At the King Fahd mosque, Nezim Halilovic, a former war commander who delivers the Friday sermons...
Indeed, for many Bosnians the religious awakening simply enriches the old city, restoring a taste of Islamic traditions rooted in more than four centuries of Ottoman rule. Yet Western and Bosnian intelligence agencies tell Time they are nonetheless concerned by a small group of local Muslim militants, who they say...
For Bosnia's antiterrorist chief Hadzimahmutovic, the idea of a homegrown Islamic threat is a fabrication of Serb politicians. Washington is less certain. The U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Terrorism 2008, released on April 30, says competing intelligence agencies in Bosnia are failing to share information. As a...
Gaafar Nimeiri, 79, had a tumultuous tenure as President of Sudan. After assuming power in a 1969 coup, he became an ally of the U.S. But his 1983 imposition of Islamic law stoked tensions between the country's mainly Muslim north and largely Christian south. While on a 1985 trip...
Working the Back Channels At first, the "bigger carrots, bigger sticks" approach seemed to show promise. When, after eight years away, Ross returned to the State Department in early February, he quickly assembled a seven-person team and began working through a long list of moves. The first and still...