A political anthropologist accuses the West of de-democratizing the Middle East “because seldom did its power elites see the\u00c2\u00a0region as a people with diverse, dynamic social-cultural texture instead of a repository of multiple resources and strategic interests. Hence their prime aim was to keep the Middle East ‘stable’ and ‘manageable'”:<\/p>\n
Muslim Brotherhood finds Egypt’s liberals refuse their offer of more seats on the constitution writing panel in wake of the group’s reneging on their promise not to run a candidate for president and in the midst of a U.S. goodwill tour:<\/p>\n
“Those arrested have a similar profile to Mohamed Merah,” say the French police. “They are isolated individuals, who are self-radicalized … [and] tracked on Islamist forums expressing extreme views and said they were preparing to travel to areas including\u00c2\u00a0Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Sahel belt to wage jihad (holy war):<\/p>\n
Scoffing at the accusation that he is in hiding or connected with the Mumbai attacks, Hafiz Saeed openly declares his itinerary:<\/p>\n
“[T]here is a real danger that Western analysts will mistakenly identify north Nigeria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conservative Islam with Boko Haram\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s violent ideology, instead of seeing the extremists for who they are: violent groups espousing fringe views that most Nigerian Muslims reject”:<\/p>\n
To their regret Muslims were the deciding favor in George W. Bush’s election in 2000. A report suggests they may decide this year’s Presidential election as well:<\/p>\n
In an attempt to assert his power in parliament, the Indonesian president expels the Islamist Party from the government coalition after a disagreement over fuel pricing:<\/p>\n