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| | Islam and Democracy |
 | | Although in succession, the Islamically oriented Turkish parties have been suppressed and many of their leaders jailed, the response of the people in the parties has simply been to form new parties and try again within the political system rather than withdrawing into a violent underground opposition. | | | Similarly, Islamically oriented political parties have operated successfully in the secular electoral politics of Turkey, with the leader of one such party, Necmettin Erbakan, serving as prime minister briefly in 1996-1997. | | | The relationship between Islam and democracy is strongly debated among the people who identify with the Islamic resurgence in the late twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. |
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http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2001-11/islam.html
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| | The New York Review of Books: Iraq: Bush's Islamic Republic |
| | He did not point out that the two leading parties in the Shiite coalition are pursuing an Islamic state in which the rights of women and religious minorities will be sharply curtailed, and that this kind of regime is already being put into place in parts of Iraq controlled by these parties. | | | Real power in Shiite Iraq rests, however, with two religious parties: Abdel Aziz al-Hakim's Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Dawa ("Call," in English) of Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari. | | | By bringing freedom to Iraq, the Bush administration has allowed Iraq's Shiites to vote for pro-Iranian religious parties that seek to create—and are creating —an Islamic state. |
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18150
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| | CQ Press : Current Events In Context : Terrorism |
| | For a time Islamic parties wielded some power in the democratic arena but were eventually overshadowed by the rise to prominence of the Muslim League, which since 1993 has successfully created a broad right-of-center coalition that includes the Islamic vote but is not an exclusively Islamic party, further constricting the avowedly Islamic parties. | | | State patronage of Islamic modernism increased tensions with Islamic forces, who refused to be marginalized and relinquish the right to interpret Islam to the state. | | | His government nationalized religious endowments and assumed guardianship of religious shrines, restricted religious education, introduced a new secular family law, and in the constitution of 1962 removed "Islamic" from the official name of the state. |
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| | Liberal Islam Network |
| | Hefner, when we look into the current tendency, why should Islamic parties and Islamic groups be divided through negative competition by using religious symbols. | | | The use of Islamic symbols in politics, dragging has become a commodity for the parties. | | | I mean with the term civil Islam an Islamic politics which starts from the acceptance or openness toward democracy, equality, to a good and democratic form of nationalism. |
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http://www.islamlib.com/en/page.php?page=article&id=541
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| | Islamic parties - encyclopedia article about Islamic parties. |
| | An Islamic party are those political parties A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. | | | - of which there are several in the Islamic world The Islamic world is the world-wide community of those who identify with Islam, known as Muslims, and who number approximately one-and-a-half billion people. | | | They describe their founding purpose to have been to encourage public debate about the Islamic alternative way of life to the failed ideologies of capitalism and communism. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Islamic+parties
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| | :: Hizb ut-Tahrir - Britain :: |
| | Our vision of the Islamic Caliphate is one of an independent state with an elected and accountable ruler, an independent judiciary, political parties, the rule of law and equal rights for minority groups. | | | The party adheres to the Islamic Sharia in all aspects of its work, and takes its methodology from that which the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) used to establish the first Islamic state in Madinah. | | | The methodology is derived from the Islamic texts and is not a matter of expediency or pragmatism. |
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http://www.hizb.org.uk/press/index.php?id=2426_0_45_0_M97
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| | The Role of Islamic Parties in Pakistani Politics |
| | Islamic parties in Pakistan have been a potent force to reckon with and can be counted among the elite groups that influence political processes and decision-making in Pakistan. | | | The Islamists believe that the solution to Pakistan's problems lies in the enforcement of the Islamic code and the premise that Islam is more than a religion, in that it is a complete guide for life. | | | Maududi emerged as the ideologue of the doctrinal Islamic state. |
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http://www.arches.uga.edu/~sga/islamic_parties_in_pak.htm
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| | A Peace Advocates Annotation of the Tripoli Peace Agreement |
| | The Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front herein referred to as the Parties to this Agreement; | | | THIS IS REFERRED TO BY G.R.P. On the aspect of ancestral domain, the Parties, in order to address the humanitarian and economic needs of the Bangsamoro people and preserve their social and cultural heritage and inherent rights over their ancestral domain, agree that the same be discussed further by the Parties in their next meeting. | | | Mindanao Peace Process: Islamic Challenge, Constitutional Rethinking, with an epilogue added, by the University of the Philippines Press. |
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| | Zarqawi And the D-Word (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Islamic political parties and movements across North Africa and the Middle East are deciding with greater frequency to take part in elections whenever possible. | | | While he says that Islamic and secular democracies cannot be the same, he rejects the notion that "Islamic democracy" must mean perpetual rule by the Islamists. | | | But some Muslims are trying to give democracy an Islamic dress while embracing essentials such as elections, human rights and the rule of law. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46419-2005Jan29.html
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| | Islamic Fundamentalism. (Yasmin Mather) |
| | The rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East coincided with disillusionment with Marxist, secular ideologies and the failures of Stalinist parties. | | | We will further argue that as Islamic fundamentalism is not a monolithic force, and because most of the Islamic world is an integral part of world capitalism, twentieth century Islam is unlikely to threaten "The West" as some want us to believe. | | | In this article we will try to explain the diverse and often contradictory nature of Islamic fundamentalism, both in Iran where an Islamic state came to power in 1979 and among Islamic movements in the Arab world. |
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http://www.isf.org.uk/ISFJournal/ISF3/IslamicFundamentalism.htm
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| | Cover story: Islam -- Islamic Fundamentalism Feared, Misunderstood |
| | Countries where Islamic parties have been allowed to compete in elections, in Jordan or Yemen or some of the South Asian countries, they’ve tended to be fairly moderate and responsible in terms of parliamentary debate. | | | In fact, most Islamic fundamentalists have much in common with their Christian counterparts, both perceiving reality through an interpretation of scripture that they view as inerrant. | | | While some Islamic fundamentalists are recruited from the poor and uneducated, others come from middle class or prosperous backgrounds and have university degrees. |
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http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004d/100804/100804a.php
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| | Dar Al Hayat |
| | It’s no secret that the Shiite parties that dominate Parliament, particularly the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Da’wa Party, want a religious state with a Shiite tinge. | | | There is hard-line Islamic rule even before a constitution; alcohol cannot be sold and women must be veiled. | | | The committee members probably selected a vague formula that mentions Islamic legislation or statutes, while the result is that a majority wants an Iranian-style state. |
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http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/08-2005/Article-20050817-c4eeb458-c0a8-10ed-00c7-49e4d5325a5e/story.html
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| | Cover story: Islam -- Islamic Fundamentalism Feared, Misunderstood |
| | Countries where Islamic parties have been allowed to compete in elections, in Jordan or Yemen or some of the South Asian countries, they’ve tended to be fairly moderate and responsible in terms of parliamentary debate. | | | But despite the growing perception in this country that Islamic fundamentalism poses a threat to the United States, many Americans have only a minimal understanding of who Islamic fundamentalists are, what they believe and why their ranks continue to grow. | | | Context, say scholars, is everything, and the political and economic climate that pertains in many Muslim countries, particularly in the Middle East, fuels Islamist movements that go beyond respect and reverence for the Islamic religion to adopt Islam as a political strategy or that refer to Islamic principles in calling for social and political reforms. |
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http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004d/100804/100804a.php
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| | Politics of Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Islamic Republic Party was Iran's dominant political party until its dissolution in 1987; Iran had no functioning political parties until the Executives of Construction Party formed in 1994 to run for the fifth parliamentary elections, mainly out of executive body of the government close to the then-president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani. | | | The leader appoints the six religious members of the Council of Guardians (the six lay members--lawyers--are named by the Islamic Consultative Assembly, or Majles); appoints the highest judicial authority, who must be a religious jurist; and is commander-in-chief of the armed forces. | | | The parliament, officially titled the Islamic Consultative Assembly, consists of 290 members elected to a four-year term. |
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| | CWS Talk! - Leading Shiite Clerics Pushing Islamic Constitution in Iraq |
| | The article points out that Basra has already been transformed into an Islamic fief since Hussein's overthrow, where the Shiite religious parties already try to impose Taliban-like dress restrictions on women. | | | With religious Shiite parties poised to take power in the new constitutional assembly, leading Shiite clerics are pushing for Islam to be recognized as the guiding principle of the new constitution. | | | While I doubt that he would object to a Christian theocrasy in the U.S., an Islamic theocrasy in Iraq would be intollerable. |
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| | Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation) |
| | Unlike more traditional Islamic parties, it is supranational and refuses to be involved in local politics. | | | Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation) a radical Islamic political movement that seeks 'implementation of pure Islamic doctrine' and the creation of an Islamic caliphate in Central Asia. | | | The group's aim is to resume the Islamic way of life and to convey the Islamic dawah to the world. |
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| | rabble news |
| | The Tawhid survives on foreign funding and sharply denounces all mainstream Islamic parties for failing to operate through the “true Islamic way” as preached by the Prophet 1400 years ago. | | | In a new trend, about a dozen Islamic parties including the leading Jamaat-e-Islami, wedded to establishing Islamic rule through election, have begun openly opposing militant Islamic groups. | | | In a major attitudinal shift, Bangladesh's mainstream Islamic parties have joined forces with the right wing government and the people to crack down on extremist Islamic groups in the country — a move aimed at boosting the country's international image. |
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| | Crisis of Impunity - Afghanistan's Civil Wars |
| | Islamic organizations that became the heart of the resistance based themselves in Pakistan and Iran. | | | They were particularly prominent in two mujahidin groups, the Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami (Movement of the Islamic Uprising) of Mawlawi Muhammad Nabi Muhammadi and a breakaway faction of Hizb-i Islami (Islamic Party) led by Mawlawi Yunis Khalis. | | | In 1996, the groups opposed to the Taliban formed an alliance called the National Islamic United Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, commonly known as the United Front, which supports the ousted government, the Islamic State of Afghanistan (ISA). |
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| | Uzbekistan - Islamic Fundamentalism |
| | And some of the Islamic groups and parties that have emerged might give leaders pause. | | | The expectation was that an Islamic country long denied freedom of religious practice would undergo a very rapid increase in the expression of its dominant faith. | | | In the early 1990s, however, Uzbekistan did not witness a surge of Islamic fundamentalism as much as a search to recapture a history and culture with which few Uzbeks were familiar. |
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| | Coexistence between democracy and Islamic Shoura developed through time, Tazi |
| | The treaties between the two parties are "a valuable source of information" on the enforcement of Islamic injunctions, regarding diplomatic relations, which were "a model of ties between nations, based on cooperation and consultation," Tazi said. | | | Coexistence between democracy and Islamic Shoura (consultation) has developed through time, as shown by the relations between the Moslem world and European countries, and the various treaties they signed, said here Professor Abdelhadi Tazi before the 13th session of the conference of the "Al-Beit" foundation for Islamic thought. | | | Tazi said historic Islamic documents should be given due scrutiny for they contain information on the way Islamic leaders dealt with the issues they came across, citing the "Meknes Declaration," a document issued in 1777 during the reign of Sultan Mohammed Ibn Abdallah, that upholds the principle of consultation. |
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| | The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today |
| | I also wonder why the group didn't say anything when political parties exploited Islamic symbols for their own benefit in the elections. | | | Not many people know about such Islamic art writing. | | | I think Dewa wants to introduce Islamic symbols to a wider public. |
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| | The main opposition parties boycotted the contest, enabling President Zeroual to secure a clear victory of 67%, amid a 75% turnout, which had been achieved despite Islamic militant calls for voters to boycott the polls. | | | In the first round of assembly elections in December 1991, the Islamic Front for Salvation (FIS) won 188 of the 231 seats contested. | | | A multiparty system was adopted in 1989 but after the Islamic fundamentalist Front for Salvation won the first round of assembly elections in December 1991, the electoral process was suspended, a state of emergency declared, and power assumed by an emergency military body, the high security council. |
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| | Sino-Pak ties: India factor |
| | While Islamabad's liaison with the Taliban was a cause of concern for the Chinese, they were particularly disturbed by reports that some religious parties in Pakistan also had a nexus with Islamic militants from Xinjing province. | | | For instance, the Chinese are not comfortable with Islamabad's Taliban connection, or to be more exact, with the entire gamut of dealing with the rise of Islamic fundamentalist forces in the region. | | | Beijing's decision to join the 'Shanghai Five' along with Russia and three Central Asian states was an indication of China's alarm over the rise of militant religious fundamentalism in Afghanistan. |
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| | Political Islam - SourceWatch |
| | Islamic parties gained in elections in mid-2003 after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and a very high percentage of people polled in Muslim nations, in some cases up to 70%, said that they believed Osama bin Laden would "do the right thing" for the interests of Muslims vs. non-Muslim forces. | | | Although there are more modern interpretations and efforts towards a new fiqh ("jurisprudence"), most non-Islamic-parties using sharia as a means to re/claim authority simply adopt some spectacular punishments taken from the Qur'an, and apply them only to helpless people, or their own enemies. | | | Whether the current nations that call themselves Islamic republics are in any sense implementing the actual program of governance defined in the religion itself (an issue raised in particular by Ziauddin Sardar) |
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| | AlterNet: War on Iraq: Misreading Islam |
| | The best hope, some of these scholars say, is that after a generation or so, the "Islamic" tag in Arab religious parties becomes rather anodyne, reminiscent of what happened to Christian democratic parties in Europe. | | | Even the creator of Wahhabism, the 18th century thinker Mohammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, was outside the mainstream, notorious for vandalizing shrines and "denounced" by theologians across the Islamic world in his time for his "doctrinal mediocrity and illegitimacy," as the scholar Abdelwahab Meddeb writes in another new book that rebuts Lewis, "Islam and its Discontents." | | | In the place of traditional Islamic learning – which had once allowed, even encouraged, science and advancement – there was nothing. |
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| | Pakistan Today: Front Page 1022005 |
| | Pakistan government also chose to remain silent when the leader of one of the radical Islamist political parties making up the Islamic bloc in parliament (MMA) warned that no Arab ruler or army had the right to amend the concept of Jerusalem land which was declared as Islamic trust by the second caliph Umar. | | | And so long as Pakistan's popular mind remains anti-American there never will be any place for the Islamic State among the dignified comity of nations. | | | As a leader of an Islamic nuclear power that has always championed the Islamic causes, it is incumbent upon Pakistan to undo the injustices done to the civilization by autocratic Muslim rulers. |
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| | Backgrounder on Afghanistan: History of the War
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| | In 1997, the Taliban renamed the country the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; Mullah Omar assumed the title amir-ul momineen (commander of the faithful). | | | Arguably the most powerful agency within the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as the Taliban renamed the country, is the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (al-Amr bi al-Ma'ruf wa al-Nahi `an al-Munkir), which is responsible for the enforcement of all Taliban decrees regarding moral behavior. | | | Many others who became core members of the group were commanders in other predominantly Pashtun parties, and former Khalqi PDPA members. |
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| | Asia Times |
| | As a result, more than 20 political parties eventually used Islamic symbols, and several splinter groups won in Indonesian elections, making them a faction that could be courted by whoever was in power to maximize their gains. | | | Speaking at a June 2000 conference in Hong Kong organized by the Asian Wall Street Journal, former Thai foreign minister Surin Pitsuwan, himself a Muslim, raised the alarm of the possible rise of Islamic militancy. | | | Indeed, fatwas, declarations and proclamations originated not in Islamic countries alone but also in several Islamic communities in the Muslim diaspora, including Europe and the United States. |
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| | BBC News SOUTH ASIA Pakistan detains Islamic 'army leader' |
| | South Asia) Pakistan's Islamic parties lead anti-US fight (02 Oct 01 | | | An Islamic leader who led thousands of Pakistanis across the border to support the Taleban in Afghanistan has been arrested, his son has confirmed. | | | Mohammed is the head of Tehreek Nifaz-e-Sharia Mohammadi, a group which supports the imposition of Islamic Sharia law in Pakistan. |
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| | Islamic Republic of Iraq Needlenose |
| | With religious Shiite parties poised to take power in the new constitutional assembly, leading Shiite clerics are pushing for Islam to be recognized as the guiding principle of the new constitution. | | | Exactly how Islamic to make the document is the subject of debate. | | | The real irony of this for me is that King George the Witless is bringing about something that he specifically ruled out on the eve of the invasion: that the Iraqis could have a representative government, but not one modeled on the Islamic Republic of Iran. |
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