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...fact that Turkey is being tapped to provide the troops to keep the peace between Israel and the Palestinians in the latest Gaza cease-fire proposals: for hundreds of years, Istanbul was the seat of power for an empire that, among other things, maintained tranquility between Jews, Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land. But since its founding in 1923, modern Turkey has shied away from any involvement with the Muslim world, once ruled by the Ottomans, instead orienting its foreign policy firmly toward the West. The predominantly Muslim nation is officially secular - it's a longtime U.S. ally...
...Palestinian uprising or "intifada" against Israeli rule came from a refugee camp in northern Gaza in 1987 and quickly spread across the region. During the revolt, which brought international attention to the Palestinian cause, the political party known as Hamas was created as a Palestinian extension of the popular Muslim Brotherhood Organization that had already swept through Egypt and much of the Arab world. Hamas gained momentum in the occupied region, especially in Gaza, by establishing educational and social programs for disenfranchised Palestinians, but drew international condemnation for its tactics of rebellion against Israel, including terror attacks and suicide bombings...
...hoarse about the enemy at the gate? They were all sabre-rattling in the direction of Islamabad.” Or as the New York Times put it, more delicately, the Mumbai attacks have “prompted bellicose outbursts from the Indian news media” against their Muslim neighbor.Media hawkishness is nothing new, of course. There are more than passing parallels between Indian news coverage of the Mumbai attacks and American coverage from the rubble of the World Trade Center. In India, the attack is already referred to as 26/11, mirroring America’s 9/11...
...moved with his family to Kuwait, where he joined the local chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood...
Mumbaikars, though, did not wallow in their woe. In the past, bouts of bloody Hindu-Muslim violence followed acts of terrorism. But a sense of unity, not vindictiveness, permeated the city this time. Mumbai's influential Hindu right-wing went missing, knowing its brand of extremism wasn't welcome. Soon after the last shots were fired, the city's leading Muslim clerics showed their contempt for the act, declaring that the bodies of the terrorists would not be allowed a proper burial within Mumbai...