“Turkey has emphatically not backtracked to ‘the road not taken’ and given up on its quest for modernization. But it has struck out on a very different modernization track, one embedded in a cultural conservatism that seeks an appropriate synthesis between Islam, capitalism and liberal democracy.†– Soli Ozel, Professor of Political Science at Istanbul Bilgi University
- It’s About Modernization, Not Religion (Washington Post)
US dishes out $20 billion in military aid to Sunni Arab states to pursue a cold-war style “containment†policy again Iran, but some analysts fear this response will encourage Iran to “go nuclearâ€:
- Secretary Rice’s Mideast Mission: Contain Iran (Christian Science Monitor)
Secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reasserts its authority over Bush’s NSA wiretapping program declaring it illegal and puts new limits on scope and size of the spy effort:
- Court Puts Limits on Surveillance Abroad (Los Angeles Times)
- Behind the Surveillance Debate (MSNBC)
The story of Britain first mosque, its founder, the movement to restore it and make it a national treasure:
- Forgotten Champion of Islam: One Man and his Mosque (The Independent)
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