Word: islamics
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...early as possible". Although the parliamentary debate reflected the power plays of a political culture in which parties rarely put the national interest above their own, it also reveals a profound difference in perspective even within the ruling coalition - Zardari's allies in the religious Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party demanded an end to military operations against the militants...
...follow this trial not because its details sound lifted from the next James Bond film, but rather because its intrigues do resemble a higher-stakes version of our own party politics. What makes this case pertinent is that those prosecuting the group have been accused of representing the pro-Islam government, the ruling AK Party, in revenge for a failed court attempt to ban the party this summer for undermining Turkey’s secular government system. For years, secular Turks have battled more Islamic Turks over the direction of their country. The result of this case and any cases...
...other motive for keeping mum has to do with the simplistic and largely negative characterization of Islam and the Arab world post-9/11, to which the government itself must plead guilty. Though few have gone as far as televangelist Pat Robertson, who called the prophet Muhammad “an absolute wild-eyed fanatic…a killer,” or Fox News personality Sean Hannity, who compared the Quran to Mein Kampf, the idea persists that there is something possibly threatening, and definitely unsettling, about Islam...
...another occasion, in response to allegations that he secretly practices Islam, Obama retorted: “Let’s make clear what the facts are: I am a Christian. I have been sworn in with a Bible...I lead the pledge of allegiance sometimes in the United States Senate when I’m presiding.” The question did not have anything to do with the pledge of allegiance; to even raise the topic sustains the false opposition between Islam on the one hand and patriotism on the other...
...political climate thus far makes it unlikely that the Obama campaign will directly acknowledge the legitimacy of Islam and the Muslim vote, at least not anytime before Nov. 5. Part of this has to do with the 13 percent of independent voters who believe that Obama is a Muslim; as long as the possibility exists that this perception will jeopardize his chance of winning undecided votes, Obama’s campaign will prioritize disabling the rumor mill over dismantling religious stereotypes...