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...discarding the more gentle type of Islam as it had grown up and was practiced in the Indian subcontinent. It was, among other things, a determined effort to cut the historical links with India and to project Pakistan as a part of the larger Muslim world in the Middle East. Darshan Khanna, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND...
...people. The U.S. is guilty of killing scores from collateral damage, be it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan or other theaters of the war on terror. So why single out Sri Lanka for criticism? The Sri Lankan government ought to be congratulated for saving the Tamils in the North and East from the devilish clutches of the Tigers and restoring their liberty. W.Y. Rambukwelle, Invercargill, New Zealand...
...China prefers North Korea to exist, even in its impoverished and infuriating current form, as opposed to what it sees as the other possibility: a unified Korean peninsula aligned with the U.S. Klingner says Beijing has for years feared a North Korean implosion, in the manner of the former East Germany's, because it would come with costs both economic (refugees crossing the Chinese border) and diplomatic (the loss of a buffer state in a region that, though stable, is inhabited by countries that really don't like one another much). The costs to Beijing of kicking the North Korea...
...Mousavi is Ahmadinejad without the invective or anger." -Patrick Clawson, deputy director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, on the similarities between the Presidential hopefuls. (Salon, March...
...North Caucasus region, located between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, consists of a cluster of semiautonomous republics, many of them Islamic, arranged around the Caucasus Mountains. It's one of the most ethnically diverse regions in the world, with over 40 distinct ethnic groups. Much of the violence is carried out by Muslim militants who have declared war on police and state officials, calling them anti-Islamic for their allegiance to Russia. Other clashes are interethnic, with a century of conflict behind them. Based on the escalating levels of violence over the past 20 years, including two wars...