How and why the Saudis are changing their tactics for controlling the Islamic resurgence from donations promoting reactionary extremism to commercial investment promoting quietest conservatism:<\/p>\n
The saber-rattling dance before the war:<\/p>\n
“A handful of Muslims took a stand during the hundred days of slaughter. Their stance inspired thousands of Rwandans to become Muslim in what was once called Africa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most Catholic country”:<\/p>\n
The sacrilegious execution of Domineque Ray<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is only the tip of a very ugly iceberg:<\/p>\n Islamophobia trumps capitalism as a “French value”: elected officials are outraged by Decathalon’s defense of free markets, freedom of expression, and freedom of religion:<\/p>\n “I’ve never questioned my faith. I tend to question other religious leaders. … We’re stuck in the middle between two communities that cannot …even correspond with one another without being heard. It’s very frustrating” …<\/p>\n … yet sex-reassignment surgery has been legal in Iran since Ayatollah, Khomeini, moved by a trans woman’s plight “issued a fatwa<\/em> allowing the procedure, which a cleric later compared to changing wheat into bread”:<\/p>\n “We will move to the next stage, the imposing of Israeli sovereignty” — Netanyahu:<\/p>\n\n
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