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5 | Indonesia Protests over Bali Bomber Executions Three perpetrators of the 2002 nightclub bombings that killed 202 people on the resort island of Bali were executed Nov. 9, prompting demonstrations by Islamic radicals who gathered at their funerals to vow revenge and hail the dead--Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim...
Yadav, who is also an assistant professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, specializes in comparative politics of the Middle East and teaches classes in Middle East politics, comparative politics, and Islamic political thought.
The Nov. 13 story, "Visiting Scholar Addresses Islamic Politics in Yemen," contained a number of factual errors. The story referred to the practice of declaring that another has given up faith in Islam as "tut phir" instead of "takfir," misstated the title of the talk, and misquoted the speaker as...
...controversy is yet another reflection of the epic struggle under way regarding Turkey's future. Secularists fear that Atatürk's legacy is threatened by the Islamic-rooted ruling party, and they look to the military for protection. The government denies it has any secret Islamicizing ambitions. Meanwhile, European Union-inspired reforms are transforming society, allowing previously taboo issues, such as rights for the Kurdish minority or the overbearing role of the military in politics and society, to be aired...
"We could see some kind of backlash in their hometowns in Java but I don't think there will be on a larger scale as people have seen the suffering and the majority of Muslims disagree with what they did," says Masdar Hilmy, a professor at the State Islamic University...