Yet there are growing worries about the spread of hard-line Islamism in the heavily Muslim banlieues.
Bangladesh has emerged in a promising way from the challenges of militarism and Islamism.
Second, except in reference to the attack in Benghazi, Romney pointedly avoids mention of Islam, Islamism, or jihad.
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The argument that rejection from the EU sent Turkey towards Islamism is an old one in foreign policy circles.
The passions generated by the Bangladeshi variety of Islamism are as lively in London as they are in Dhaka.
Mr. Caci emphasized, as did many other speakers, the necessity of differentiating between the Muslim faith and political Islamism.
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FIS's absence to manoeuvre his party into being the acceptable face of Islamism.
In reality, France was no more supportive of the Tunisian regime than many others who saw it as a bulwark against Islamism.
Stephen Ulph from the Jamestown Foundation argues that the West has actually been remiss in not engaging more with the debate over Islamism.
Mr. Ajami is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-chair of Hoover's Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.
While the ideological persuasions of the Mauritanian coup leaders are still unclear, the virulent Islamism that exists in the country should be cause for concern.
But he warned that its definition of Islamism was "so broad that it fails to distinguish between Islamists and politically active Muslims inspired by Islam".
The story of Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa is complex and ominous.
Is there any difference in your view between Islam and Islamism?
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He was seen as a leader who did his best to protect the Coptic Christians at a time when Islamism was on the rise, our correspondent says.
The U.S. and other Western governments can check Islamism's designs on the region only by acknowledging that Africa is an important piece of the global security architecture.
Most analysts believe that despite the avowed Islamism of the insurgents this is primarily an ethnic-separatist fight of Malays against Thais, rather than part of any international jihad.
What's more, Islamism's advance often functions through nominally nongovernmental organizations.
If the Obama campaign is any sign of what is in store, we seem to be headed even further back into a retreat from any perceptible contest of ideas against the ideology of Islamism.
The boy earned high enough marks to win a place at the respected engineering faculty of Cairo University, a hotbed of Islamism in the 1970s, and then a scholarship to the University of Southern California.
Many Arab governments, including Egypt's, had come to regard Salafism, with its focus on Sunni orthodoxy and punctilious personal piety, as a useful foil to the more politically engaged pan-Islamism of groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The parties that campaign for the "green vote" in Tunisia, Libya, or Egypt have different positions on the defining issue of Islamism - whether to govern by religious law or allow different authorities, notably civil courts, to continue.
Whatever the outcome, Egypt looks set to join a broader regional trend that has seen a more pragmatic, tolerant form of Islamism rise to dominate the political scene, by way of the ballot box rather than the gun barrel.
While African Islamism has been much in the news of late with the genocidal events in Darfur, much less attention has been paid to the dramatic spread of radical Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa which is home to 250 million Muslims.
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His ideas, notably for tackling Sunni angst over the erosion of traditional religious authority and his attempt to counter millennial strands of Islamism with a conservative reformism, may have lost a resounding voice if he is now kept off IslamOnline.
Additionally, the rise of Islamism threatens to disrupt the flow of oil and natural gas from the region - a significant share of the world market - while discouraging investment in untapped reserves that could lessen dependence on Middle East supplies.
Erdogan's softly peddled but remorselessly consolidated Islamism was embraced by senior American officials intent on reducing democracy to a synonym for elections rather than acknowledging that democracy is only meaningful as a system of laws and practices that engender liberal egalitarianism.
But, whereas many of Abou El Fadl's contemporaries responded to such police-state tactics by embracing militant Islamism, the abuse only magnified his desire to find a community where he could speak his mind without fear of retribution from either secular or religious authorities.
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Reflecting the mild, modernist Islamism of the Justice and Development party, known by its Turkish initials AK, which has ruled Turkey since 2002, the new policy seeks to use the soft power of trade, along with historical links, to project stability beyond Turkey's frontiers.
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