Word: islamicizing
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But just as the deal seemed imminent, an outsize and vocal hard-core Islamic minority hijacked the political majority's desire to make it go away.
Islam is a double-edged sword in Sudan. In many instances, the regime harnesses it to advance its own power - witness the decades-long war successive Arab regimes in Khartoum waged against non-Muslim Africans in the south. Then, too, there are the regime's frequent charges of anti-Islamic...
But just as often, as the controversy surrounding Gibbons illustrates, it is Islam that harnesses the Sudanese regime. Far from being a radical Islamic autocracy, the Khartoum government is a tenuous regime riven with factions and dissent.
In a timely boost to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel on Monday freed 429 Palestinian prisoners. Their release was seen as a goodwill gesture toward Abbas, who is anxious to show Palestinians that he did not return from the Annapolis summit empty-handed. Abbas needs all the help he can...
In fact, the U.S. has long been active politically and militarily in East Africa, and its presence dramatically increased after Sept. 11, 2001. In the summer of 2006, the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), an alliance of clerics and clan leaders that included several al-Itihaad al-Islamiya leaders, took...