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World Policy Journal (2010) 27 (2): 16–18.
Published: 01 June 2010
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 63–76.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., the reign of Maliki is an object lesson to other nascent Islamist leaders across the Middle East of how to consolidate one’s rule from the rubble of a toppled state. To understand Maliki—this century’s first Arab leader elected through a genuinely democratic process, which prefigured the Arab Spring...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 59–69.
Published: 01 June 2014
... election of 2012, a Western diplomat marveled, naively, at the multitudes of veiled women who had come out to support the old regime’s candidate, the avowedly anti-Islamist figure of Ahmed Shafik. It was during this campaign that strongly held anti-Islamist themes were aired widely and used to mount...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 1–14.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... This decontex- ical Islam.1 There is, however, one widely tualizing of Islam allows Islamists in theory shared ingredient in the mix referred to as to ignore the social, economic, and political political Islam that may be responsible for milieus within which Muslim communities projecting a monolithic...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 56–67.
Published: 01 June 2000
.... Ecevit’s re­ “modern” civilization and Western values. marks echoed statements by the General From Afghanistan to Algeria, Islamist move­ Staff that even more pointedly blamed the ments have typically flourished in societies moderately Islamist Virtue Party, then and that found themselves...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 59–67.
Published: 01 December 2002
... and state power ical Islamist regime of the Taliban. In the produces a political culture that can neither shantytowns of the West Bank and the im­ accommodate pluralism nor tolerate dissent. poverished urban centers of Pakistan, angry Iran’s Muslim revolutionaries reinforced crowds celebrated...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 47–55.
Published: 01 June 2018
... a banned Sufi order, Kısakürek refashioned himself as an Islamist thinker. In Büyük Doğu (The Great East), the political magazine he founded in 1943, Kısakürek diagnosed Marxism and capitalism as the chief causes of Turkey’s ills. He wrote editorials recommending that Islamists seize power, advising them...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 101–112.
Published: 01 September 2011
... the Corniche and stroll the glittering avenues. Barely 600 miles down the coast, in Algiers, the dark Islamist forces unleashed by the civil war still linger. But in “Casa,” there are bright lights and freedom. These visitors to Morocco are fully prepared to invest their trust in“M6”—Mohammed VI, the gentle...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 64–66.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Islamists. The Islamist dislikes life. For him, it’s a waste of time that blocks his entry to eternity. It’s temptation, futile growth, a distancing from God and from the sky, a delay on his appointment with the everlasting. Life is the result of a disobedience, and this disobedience is the result...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 89–99.
Published: 01 June 2011
... democratic reforms that might threaten their power and privileges. The unity of Tahrir has given way to violence between Muslims and Coptic Christians. It’s an environment that favors the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood—long accustomed to organizing under repressive conditions— over the inexperienced...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 37–50.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and Palestinian Islamists in­ national Islamic Front for Jihad Against troduced him to new trends in revolutionary Jews and Crusaders,” and directed the at­ Islamist thought, stemming from the think­ tacks on American interests around the ing of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood ideo­ world.3 logue Sayyid Qutb...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 78–84.
Published: 01 June 2004
... the Islamists considerable free­ The government changes its moral tone not dom to organize themselves after years of 78 WORLD POLICY JOURNAL • SUMMER 2004 clandestine activity in the hope that this held by the NDP, 8 percent are held by inde­ would reduce the power...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 77–83.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of the more traditionally hostile parties in the Middle East closer together. In short, it is urgent that we change our foreign policy. The breakup of Syria and the subsequent spread of chaos to neighboring countries, the establishment of a regime that is subjugated to the Islamists, the continuation...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 65–70.
Published: 01 March 2000
... corruption, system, the judiciary, the administration, abuses by security forces, unemployment, and investment procedures. Most important, and the growing gap between rich and poor. the broadly based government provided the Pressured by the rise of the Islamists in the necessary leadership...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 70–79.
Published: 01 June 2013
... that radicalism is being addressed, others doubt the Russian government’s motives, believing officials are exaggerating the Islamist menace to spread anxiety. As one local Tatar suggests, “they hope we will embrace Moscow to get away from terror.” The pro-Moscow leadership of Tatarstan may also be using...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 88–100.
Published: 01 December 2013
... citizen, the son of Iraqi refugees, blew himself up in central Stockholm. He was near a busy shopping street, but killed only himself. In an email sent shortly before the attack, he blamed the war in Afghanistan—and the cartoons. Now, in the hours after the Oslo bomb, it seemed that an Islamist had...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 82–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... and Afghanistan. The Pakistani and Afghan networks that the ISI created in the late 1980 s and the 1990 s and have fostered inside Pakistan are the main source of the Islamist terrorism ripping apart Afghanistan and threatening the United States and its allies. Three ISI connected Pakistani religio-terrorist...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 23–31.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., the intensity of nationalistic fervor always corresponds to the existence of a threat. Until 1979, that threat was Israel; now, it is Islamists, who have opposed military presidents since the 1950s. In the 1970s, as religiosity was ascendant in Egyptian culture, Sadat loosened restrictions on the outlawed...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 53–60.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of the region, the Washington- against its Islamist opponents that cost based political analyst Anthony Cordesman more than 100,000 lives over the following noted several years ago (in a wonderful turn eight years. A fragile civil concord was shat­ of phrase), “lies in the fact that many Mid­ tered...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 83–91.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in Uzbekistan has been especially enthusiastic in its embrace of rats . Islam Karimov, the country's autocratic ruler, has long fought a brutal counterinsurgency campaign against Islamist opposition groups, led by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Hizb ut-Tahrir. Members of these groups had been among...
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