Sentences with phrase «islamist political»

While the revolutionary nations had been mostly governed during the last decades by secular (and socialist) political elites, the Arab Spring has promoted Islamist political parties.

As an effective tool of political mobilization, the universal concept of Ummah is absolutely crucial in Islamist political ideology.

This year opened with a revolution holding great promise of Muslim - Christian unity, but has been largely displaced with liberal - Islamist political competition and attacks on Copts in Atfih, Imbabah, Maspero, and elsewhere.

But when the Jamaat - e-Islami, an Islamist political party in Pakistan, began to push the country to a more orthodox view of Islam in the 1970s, the Ahmadis were cast out.

Not exact matches

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the country's president, has been turning Turkey into an Islamist - tinged autocracy, purging the military and other state institutions of perceived internal enemies and jailing thousands of journalists, professors, civil society leaders, and political opponents.

In Iraq, and eventually in Syria, political accommodation of diverse ethnic and religious groups — however difficult — will be essential to fully defeating ISIS and preventing it or the next millennial Islamist movement from gaining a new foothold.

Yeah, Henry Rollins might provide a workable way (for sophomoric liberals) to protest LAPD heavy - handedness in the early 1980s, and other minor Western maladies, and maybe punk music really could strengthen your spine in the aughties if you're an alienated Egyptian liberal youth under the boot of Mubarak, but no, the example of Rollins and such sure can't find help you navigate your way to political effectiveness between the Egyptian military on one hand and popular Islamist groups on the other.

In this context of aughties - unease, older conservative assumptions of a natural alliance between more libertarian Americans and more socially conservative ones, around the supposedly shared attributes of religious Liberty, economic Liberty, and political Liberty, with the threat of Islamist terror cast as the substitute for that of Communist domination, fell flat.

Political pressure on Islamist groups can achieve very little in the long run if the change of Muslim ideology is not genuine.

Los Angeles Times: Growing ties between Egypt, Turkey may signal new regional order Egypt and Turkey are forging an alliance that showcases two Islamist leaders maneuvering to reshape a Middle East gripped by political upheaval and passionate battles over how deeply the Koran should penetrate public life.

Especially following Ahok's conviction, fringe Islamist groups have leveraged increased political influence.

The Islamist movement is «the part of Islam which embraces a clear political agenda for bringing nations under Muslim domination and shari`ah law,» according to Open Doors.

In my book, I have shown that the project of Islamist populism is facing a crisis of political mobilization in contemporary India and Bangladesh due to the challenges of mobilizing across a heterogeneous Muslim community, and the tensions between nationalist and internationalist appeals facing Islamism.

The nation's successful transition is rooted in its well - developed civil society, which intervened at a critical point during the constitutional bargaining process to reconcile the Islamist Ennahda party and more secular political factions.

A successful electoral transition in 2014 from Ennahda to Nidaa Tounes, an umbrella party for leftists, liberals and businessmen who oppose the Islamist faction, further consolidated political stability.

The idea of Ummah provides the ground for Islamists to take the challenge of rallying the entire Muslim community under a single political project, a project I call Islamist populism.

Last weekend, I discussed on Radio France International the meeting in Khartoum (Sudan) of thousands of politico - religious militants with strong links to the government: the general conference of the Islamist movement known as Al - Harakat Al - Islamiyyah is the most important political rally in the country of the last 10 - 15 years.

Some observers, including the editorial staff of the Saudi Gazette, have expressed sympathy for Egypt's position, stressing Cairo's need to defend its territory from Islamist militants: «Egypt's curbs on movement through its crossing with the Gaza Strip is a security decision that had to be taken even though it has cut off imports of medicine and aid to the impoverished coastal enclave... Egypt had no other recourse but to seal the tunnels although it is not a decision without physical and political risks.

In Turkey, Erdogan has eroded it as he continues to make political use of Islamist tendencies.

In February 2011 a Guardian blog report covering his early performance as Mayor concluded that he had proved «highly adept at political jujutsu - drawing strength from his enemies» attack», including unfair branding of the borough as «Islamist» in the tabloids, and was working with the local Labour MPs to resist the Government's cuts.

The researchers found that religiously motivated Islamist terrorists were more committed to self - sacrifice than were less religious perpetrators, whose objectives were purely political.

Although a rich history of organized protest, opposition, and resistance by labor unions, professional syndicates, student groups, and Islamist organizations is prominent in both Egyptian and Tunisian modern histories, formulating policy and garnering political support were especially difficult for secular and liberal parties under the newly toppled dictatorships.

Each represents diverse political and ideological modes of thinking and activity, i.e. Islamist groups, Ugandan insurgent constituencies, and right - wing Israeli factions.

Islamist militants took advantage of the political chaos and occupied the north for nine months.