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"The Islamic community and Bosnian state officials should cooperate to engage non-violent Salafis, especially those returning from the diaspora, in dialogue so as to encourage integration."
—from Crisis Group’s recent report, Bosnia’s Dangerous Tango: Islam and Nationalism
"Virtually no home-grown radicals have been involved in violence; the vast majority of attacks have been the work of émigrés or persons with documented criminal or psychological records."
—from Crisis Group’s recent report, Bosnia’s Dangerous Tango: Islam and Nationalism
"The threat of fundamentalist Islam has been evoked repeatedly in Bosnia since several thousand mujahidin arrived in the early 1990s, though it is foreign to the great majority of the Muslim population."
—from Crisis Group’s recent report, Bosnia’s Dangerous Tango: Islam and Nationalism
In Istanbul, an Exhibition on Islam in China Accentuates the Positive | PRI’s The World
By Matthew Brunwasser
Muslims in China make up less than 2 percent of the population. But that’s still 23 million people, almost the population of Texas. And Zhang Jian from the Chinese state religious body, says the exhibition is meant to inform international audiences about the richness of Islamic culture in China.
FULL ARTICLE (PRI’s The World)
Photo: Main Prayer Hall at the Cow Street Mosque in Beijing
Credit: Kevin Schoenmakers/Flickr
Tunisia: Hardline Islam threatens democracy gains | Boston.com
By Paul Schemm/Associated Press
TUNIS, Tunisia—Thousands of hardcore Muslims chant against Jews. Youths rampage through cities at night in protest of “blasphemous” art. A sit-in by religious students degenerates into fist fights and the desecration of Tunisia’s flag.
Photo: BRQ Network/Flickr
Gilles Yabi on The Interview : Mali Crisis: Is there a way out? | FRANCE 24
Armen Georgian meets Gilles Yabi, the West Africa Project director of the International Crisis Group, to discuss about the deteriorating situation in Mali. The Islamists have chased the Tuareg out of key towns, imposed sharia law, and last week destroyed ancient Muslim shrines they deemed un-Islamic in the UN world heritage-listed desert city of Timbuktu.
