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Uzbek president Islam Karimov doesn't take kindly to criticism. He's branded opponents as Islamic extremists and imprisoned over 6,000 of them in a penal system where, according to the U.S. State Department and the U.N., torture is "routine" and "systematic." But after the Uzbek military reportedly killed at least 500 people after an uprising in Andijan two weeks ago, Karimov is under fire from a source that's more difficult to suppress: the international community. The British have called for an investigation into the shootings, as have the U.N. and the European Union. Craig Murray, the ambassador...
...context of Abu Ghraib and subsequent (confirmed) reports of female interrogators tormenting pious detainees with sexual come-ons, should Newsweek's item have helped trigger violence? The full answer involves Pakistani politics and flagging Afghan goodwill. But the short one concerns a religious force often mismeasured in the West: Islam's extreme reverence for the Koran and fury at its defilement...
...created but has existed with God for all eternity. If "Jesus is God's revelation, and the meaning [to Christians] of that revelation unfolds in the events of his life as described in the Gospels," writes comparative religion expert F.E. Peters in his book The Monotheists, in Islam the Koran "is the revelation." To say, as Georgetown University Islam expert John Voll does, that Newsweek's account portrayed Americans "flushing God down the toilet" might seem extreme. But Voll suggests that a sense of the offense involved can be extrapolated from pious Christians' horror at artist Andres Serrano...
...side of the church-state divide, and is a prime example of Islam’s potential to adapt to the 21st century. A stronger relationship with Indonesia would send the most powerful message yet to the silent, global, Muslim majority that America has distinguished between Islam and Islamism, and stands in solidarity behind the former. This ought to be a small step towards the long-term goal of alleviating rampant anti-Americanism across the globe...
...Everyone agrees that what happened at Abu Ghraib was horrible and tragic,” Downer said. “But...by portraying American foreign policy as targeted specifically against Islam, the play disparaged our men and women in uniform in an extreme and dishonest way. Certainly making these statements and arguments are within their rights, but I think it represents a new low in responsible dialogue on the issue...