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...seems remote. The city's residents remain wary of militants. Rustempasic says he doubts any company will ever employ him, and when three Algerian-born Bosnian citizens returned to Sarajevo after six years' detention in Guantánamo, they were shunned by those who feared they would spread militant Islam. "They have no opportunity to get jobs," says human-rights activist Dizdarevic. More typical of Sarajevo's new religious fervor are young professionals like Begic and Husic, whose faith has instilled meaning and order into their once tumultuous lives. Husic says she has learned to ignore the jeers that...
...pictures of Islam's soft revolution...
...also see that this God then had bursts of moral growth - within both Judaism and Islam - and that the proven ingredients of that growth are around today, just when another such burst is needed...
...least we can quit talking as if this adaptation were impossible - as if intolerance and violence were inevitable offshoots of monotheism. At least we can quit asking whether Islam - or Judaism or any other religion - is a religion of peace. The answer is no. And yes. It says so in the Bible, and in the Koran...
...specter of an Islamist threat has often worked in favor of the region's governments. After 9/11, U.S. Central Asian strategy was dictated largely by the Department of Defense under Donald Rumsfeld. Uzbekistan, ruled its entire independent life by the iron-fisted Islam Karimov, was brought into the fold as a staging ground for American operations in Afghanistan, as well as a willing accomplice in the renditions of suspected terrorists. That cozy partnership ended in 2005 when the Uzbek army gunned down hundreds of civilians protesting for reform in the Ferghana Valley under the pretense that it was curbing...