Word: islamicism
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On the streets of the cities and towns of China's northwestern region of Xinjiang you can hear complaints from the Uighur minority group about restrictions on the Islamic religion they practice, their Turkic language or their culture, which is most closely linked to the lands of Central Asia. But...
Getting to Know God Robert Wright's article, "Decoding God's Changing Moods," on historical interactions among monotheistic religions is interesting [June 15]. But when he refers to "the most dangerous of intra-Abrahamic fault lines, the one between Muslims and Jews," he is wrong. The attacks in New York...
The Pendulum Swings The Islamic revival in Bosnia is classic human nature [June 15]. The Bosnian Muslims had a mainly secular sense of identity but were nevertheless brutalized during the Balkan civil war due to their religion, for there is little else to differentiate Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks. In reaction...
Obama avoided any sense that American values and Islamic ones were in conflict. Instead, he offered a more porous vision of both Islam and the West, one in which "Islam has always been a part of America's story." Where Sarkozy rushed to define what the burqa meant ("subservience ... debasement...
4 | Tehran Sore Winner Iran's Guardian Council has officially confirmed the re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, following a recount of some 10% of the ballots cast in the country's disputed June 12 election. Tehran has warned that it won't tolerate further protests; the harsh...