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...Restiveness among the masses is driving voters to embrace opposition parties. The Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party, or PKS, has become popular with young educated urbanites by dropping its demands for Islamic law and painting itself as a corruption fighter. And Golkar's Wiranto is gaining by tapping into lingering nostalgia for the high-growth days of Suharto. During the party's political convention, Wiranto emphasized his ties to the strongman with a black-and-white video that juxtaposed his face and the dictator's. The biggest threat to Megawati, however, is Yudhoyono. The 54-year-old four-star general...
...wholly different LPs?one from China, one from Latin America, and the third by American country balladeer Jim Reeves. Rahman's Hindu family was also devoted to a local Muslim pir, or saint, who was a Sufi dervish. Sufis share the same devotion to Allah as other strands of Islam, but none of the rigid stoicism. Instead, Sufis believe the way to God is through vehement, ecstatic self-expression. With such a teacher, Rahman says he can't remember a time when music, and mysticism, wasn't his life...
...article “Clarke Blasts Bush’s Policy on Terrorism” (News, April 22) reads “The United States needs ‘prominent, articulate Islamic leaders we could look to for counterweights,’ Clarke said. ‘We have to get inside the head of the enemy.’” This quotation, taken out of context (and I’m not even sure whether Clarke actually said these two sentences consecutively as it is printed in the article, in which case it is even worse), implies...
...What is to be done to prevent more attacks? As long as revenge and war remain the only answers, peaceful coexistence has no chance. We must fight Muslim extremism by seeking dialogue with the majority of peace-loving Muslims. In Germany, moderate Islam prevails. Dialogue with moderate Muslims may give Europeans access to the religious and cultural essence of Islam, so they can better understand it. Hans Gerbig Gersthofen, Germany...
...International terrorism has adopted a different modus operandi. It has become decentralized without giving up veneration of Osama bin Laden. He is an icon of revenge for perceived atrocities against followers of Islam. The ongoing attacks in Iraq and the Madrid train bombings are grim indicators of the changing face of terrorism. Kailash Mehta Mohali, India...