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Grounds for hope.(What's Next in Iraq?)
The TAE survey is not a slam-dunk, but it does give grounds for hope. Young people are more optimistic than their elders. That bodes well for the future. Iraqis want to work things out for themselves; that is the native impulse behind democracy and individual liberty, or at least it can be. Many Iraqis have at least some college education, and it turns out they are the people most likely to support democratic values.
Two thirds of the Iraqi population does not want a theocratic government. That's very good news. The survey says that Iraqis think the U.N. is more likely to help Iraq than is the U.S. I doubt that, but no one's perfect.
America's primal mission and broadest international goal, beyond self-defense, is to defend and extend the writ of individual liberty. When this is possible, and there is something worth fighting for, we have been prepared to flex our military muscle. In all, the results have been positive. Strength has paid off.
We should have a balanced perspective of Arab/Muslim demography. Arabs and Muslims are many in number; they are not ten feet tall.
There are about 275 million Arabs, and 1.2 billion Muslims. Almost one out of six human beings is a follower of Islam. There is a belief afloat that the Islamic countries have ...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 30, 2003 700+ words
...Adam Benson Though Shiite Muslims have been an integral part of Iraq's culture and civilization...timeline of events of Shiite Muslims in Iraq and Iran, beginning nearly...population to gain a majority in Iraq. Though Shiite Muslims currently account for 60...
- POL: JI leaders warn against US designs to divide Muslims in Iraq.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International June 15, 2007 700+ words
...Askaris shrine in Samara, Iraq. In a statement on Thursday...his solidarity with the Muslims of Iraq and assured them that...act is not to be of any Muslim. In fact all the evidences...American strategy to divide Muslims through Iraq into a sectarian civil...
- Sunni Muslims in Iraq are still loyal to Saddam Hussein.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Dilanian, Ken July 25, 2004 700+ words
...Ken Dilanian BAGHDAD, Iraq _ Omar Masood is no religious...and video business in Iraq's capital. As he tells...neighborhood, a Sunni Muslim stronghold of members...before the war, that Iraq was replete with moderate...than a million Shiite Muslims. And, like their compatriots...
- It's a bleak Aidilfitri for Muslims in Iraq.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 12, 2004 700+ words
...month with their Muslim friends. There...countries like Iraq. With the country...security, the Iraqi Muslims are not even able...Ramadan, when Muslims believe Allah...But not for the Muslims in Falluja and other parts of Iraq. They have no...
- Bangladeshis pray for Muslims in Iraq, Palestine, Kashmir on Eid.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire November 26, 2003 700+ words
...mass prayers for beleaguered Muslims in Iraq, Palestine and Kashmir...special prayers were offered for Muslims in the conflict regions of Iraq, Palestine and in Indian...officials and Dhaka-based Muslim diplomats offered their Eid...
- Iraqi Shi'i radio says US missionary groups trying to convert Muslims in Iraq.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire June 26, 2003 700+ words
...missionary work in Iraq in different ways...which are entering Iraq under the cover of...the religion of the Muslim Iraqi citizen and...the minds of Iraqi Muslims, particularly children...concerned with the Iraqi Muslim's deviation from...believed that the war on Iraq is a war on ...
- Russian Muslims warn Iraq war may provoke wave of extremism.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire March 20, 2003 700+ words
...the security of this country". "Muslims living in Russia may be proud of their...brethren to give their lives for defending Iraq, but we cannot guarantee that none of the Russian Muslims will try to go to Iraq"... Source: ITAR-TASS news agency...
- Religious Revival for Shiite Muslims in Iraq.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire April 2, 2003 700+ words
...WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Iraq's majority Shiite population...of thousands of Shiite Muslims gathered in the holy...one of the most revered Muslim martyrs for Iraq's Shiite population...many of these Shiite Muslims. Some of the slogans...
- Bruneians pray for Muslims in Iraq.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire April 6, 2003 700+ words
...Reports) Devoted Muslims in Brunei Darussalam...of their innocent Muslim brothers in Iraq... With increasing...the civilians, Muslims here could only...safety of other Muslims there. Observers...led invasion of Iraq and global reactions...
- US now the common enemy of Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq: experts.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire April 8, 2004 700+ words
...States and its allies in Iraq, he said. "If you...between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Iraq. But he added: "A feeling that is common in the Muslim world is that there is now a common enemy." Muslims "will put away their...
Source: HighBeam Research, Grounds for hope.(What's Next in Iraq?)