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...Java, as in most of Indonesia, moderate and liberal Muslims are dominant. Islamists haven't made inroads in electoral politics, and recent attempts to codify Shari'a law in the country's constitution were soundly defeated. When puritanical Islamists in Solo conducted sweeps of the bars and nightclubs to shut them down for the holy days of Ramadan and trashed some establishments to make their point, Solo's drink purveyors and customers fought back with well-attended street demonstrations...
WERE YOU SURPRISED WHEN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS FORCED TO RETRACT SOME OF THE EVIDENCE IT HAD OFFERED ON WMD? We had weapons inspectors who took three years to prepare, and then were shut down in about 3 1/2 months, when [then U.N. chief arms inspector Hans] Blix said they needed more time. We've always felt in this organization that disarmament requires patience and time. And we didn't have it. I think what's happening in Iraq proves that that judgment wasn't entirely wrong...
...presidential candidate Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party sprang from the pro-independence movement. Beijing branded him a "dangerous" separatist and threatened "a blood-soaked battle" to reunite with Taiwan. Chen was a long shot until then, but ended up winning. "China has learned to shut up," says Emile Sheng, a professor at Taiwan's Soochow University. "It knows now that its statements have the opposite effect than it intends...
...Soviets had shut down all of the monasteries in Moscow—with the Danilov last—and converted the Danilov into a prison for children of dissidents...
...completely shut down by the atheist Soviets in 1930 after the Bolsheviks overturned the tsardom...