Word: islamicism
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"Smile, you're in Swat," reads a billboard on the main road into the lush green honeymooners' valley in Pakistan once dubbed the "Switzerland of Asia." But over the past two years, Swat has been turned into a playground for the Taliban. And it may be the Taliban and their...
The lynchpin of the government's effort to defuse the Taliban insurgency is Sufi Mohammed, a septuagenarian Islamist cleric whose Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law has returned to Swat with the backing of the authorities. "We will ask them to lay down their weapons," Mohammed says of the...
Maybe the Muslim world is, after all, a mystery to the West. Maybe the two cultures have simply diverged one step too far from each other—somehow neither can break the encryption just beneath the surface of the mutual chatter that seems to elicit so much wrath and...
There’s a certain responsibility that’s assumed when assessing a work that so obviously engages issues with a cultural pertinence. A film that concerns itself with an act of devotion whose intensity distinguishes Islam from all other faiths should naturally aspire to enrich and elucidate...
Amid the shrill chatterings of hurried students rushing to class at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS South), the mystical images on the walls of the bottom floor remain placid and vibrant. “Sufism: Mystical Ecumenism,” the exhibition of photographs by Iason Athanasiadis...