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Democracy, Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam.(islamic philosophy)

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| March 01, 2006 | Stenhouse, Paul | COPYRIGHT 2006 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THE MYRIAD FACES that Islam presents to the non-Islamic world reflect the vastly differing racial, cultural, linguistic and social origins of Muslims, and the fact that Islam is itself in a state of unprecedented flux and reappraisal.

This ethnic and cultural diversity within Islam partially explains the differing reactions among Muslims to the bloody aftermath of the return of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Iran in 1979, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in the USA, and to the Bali bombings on October 12, 2002 and October 1, 2005. A minority of extremist Islamists or "fundamentalists"--both Sunni and Shi'i--openly rejoiced at "victory" over the ...

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