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Part of the problem is that not many Americans know what Islam really is. With so many people claiming to act “in the name of Islam”—including extremists from both sides of the political spectrum—it is hard to know what Islam stands for. And the media does not help. Most mention of Muslims and Islam includes terrorism and oppression...
...Islam should be the official religion of the country and one of the main sources for legislation, along with other sources that do not harm Muslim sensibilities." IBRAHIM AL-JAAFARI, leading candidate for Iraqi Prime Minister, on the role of Islam in the new Iraq...
...acknowledged that Abu Sayyaf was indeed responsible.) Sulaiman didn't want to be taken so lightly last week. On Valentine's Day, after two bombs exploded in the southern cities of Davao and General Santos, Sulaiman was again on the radio, asserting that Abu Sayyaf's "gallant warriors of Islam" were behind the blasts. But his last words were: "There is one more to come." About 20 minutes later, a bomb went off on a bus in Makati, Metro Manila's financial center. The toll for the day: 12 dead and more than 100 wounded...
...author, I think, has a particularly stereotypical view of Islam, that studying Islam is just about reading texts,” Asani says...
...Jaafari is a ?Shiite modernist,? according to an AFP profile carried in the Tehran Times. He has signaled a moderate Islamist position on questions of religion and the state, advocating that Islam be constitutionally recognized as Iraq's official religion and a source (but not the sole source) of legislation, and that no laws will be passed that contradict Islamic values. At the same time, he favors protection of minority religious and ethnic groups, and insists that the first priority of a new government is not only to be as inclusive as possible of those who participated in the election...