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...TIME: "At the end of the day, Malaysia is still well regarded internationally as an advanced Muslim country." Indeed, earlier in the year, Abdullah appeared so confident about his homeland's spiritual diversity that he rejected a plea by the non-Muslim members of his Cabinet to more strenuously protect religious freedoms. "We are at a crossroads as a nation," says Tian Chua, spokesman for the opposition National Justice Party. "The extreme religious rhetoric is threatening what we worked so hard for 50 years to accomplish...
...justified by Salafi teachings-even if most conservative clerics disagree. "If we don't promote a smiling Islam, then we will be seen overseas as a hotbed of radicalism and terrorism," says Syafi'i Anwar, executive director of the International Center for Islam and Pluralism in Jakarta. "We must protect the portrait of Indonesia as a bastion of moderate Islam...
...lives with three brothers and their families. In November, they all moved to Adhamiya from Shulla, a mostly Shi'ite neighborhood where she was born. "I knew every brick of every house on my street," she says. "When we left, some of our neighbors cried and promised they would protect our house with their lives. But the next day, a Shi'ite family took the place, and nobody stopped them." Ubaid says she had considered raising Mohammed as a Shi'ite, out of respect for her husband. But now, she says, "that would be inviting disaster." Still, Ubaid says that...
...Harvard graduates have served honorably in wars past and present in order to protect their country,” Barrett said. “They are heroes. I am just an ordinary person that wants to serve his country, but hasn’t done anything...
...analysts. After Neeleman presented the financials, one analyst asked a general question about what operational plans were under consideration in the event of flight cancellations. Neeleman's response: "If we have a hurricane and there are hundreds of flights canceled, then people just don't travel. But we always protect our customers, we don't leave people in a lurch. So, regardless of if we have a formal agreement or not, we protect them...