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...Hamas goes in promoting its brand of Islam may yield answers to a dilemma that is roiling the Middle East: Will the party choose moderation, now that it has inherited responsibility for governing some 4 million Palestinians? Or will it use its power to impose a fundamentalist ideology that, coupled with its militant anti-Israel stance, has produced suicide bombings against Israel and led the U.S. and the European Union to designate it a terrorist organization...
...like Sheik al-Bitawi are sounding conciliatory. "There are good things in Europe and the U.S.: civilization, democracy, medical care," he says. "But there are also bad things: divorce, drugs, murder. We hope that the positive things in the West can combine with the positive things we have in Islam. This is our vision." The world is waiting to see it in action...
...other hand, one expects faculty to monitor their own profession. For example, Harvard recently announced a $20 million gift from a member of the Saudi royal family. The gift is targeted for the study of Islam, and may legitimately enhance the University’s research in that area. Yet, without prejudging the uses to which the gift will be put, there is reason for careful scrutiny of this funding: Saudi Arabia exports and pays for the spread abroad of some of the most virulent forms of Islamism. Last year the Center for Religious Freedom (a division of Freedom House...
...disagree with the argument advanced in Emily Ingram’s piece from February 15 (“Clash of Civlizations,” op-ed). While I recognize the right of European bigots to defame Islam if they choose to, these cartoons cannot be examined outside the context of the anti-Muslim sentiment that has, of late, gained so much legitimacy in European public discourse. The spurious examination employed by Ms. Ingram naturally leads to quaint visions of a "clash of civilizations" or of a noble Europe bearing the burden of free speech against rapacious Muslims who just don?...
...Qaeda claims to be faithful to Islam and God, but they are not,” the ambassador said. “They are an evil cult. Their twisted vision is alien to the healthy body of the faith that holds the Muslim community together...