... strategic importance, which is vital in the mission to restore homeland security. In order to achieve this restoration, the United States should expand inquiries on intelligence in predominantly Arabian-Muslim-oriented various regions. One step in examining potential threats, is determining whether or not nations pose a threat, and if so, is the threat direct or indirect? When ... The only threat the government of Egypt poses to the U.S. is indirect through continuation of an illegitimate government that sustains a recruit breeding pool for militant Islam. Militant Islam "the radical, e...

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... not have to convert the people. (Ringrose, 2001) The people must only recognize their Muslim authority. This method was effective because the conquered people more readily accepted rule under the local elites and therefore made Ottoman authority more tolerable. Sometimes, regional elites would eventually convert to Islam after conquest. Ottoman rule was easy for Christian communities to accept because it did not ... that contributed to the dominance of the Ottoman Empire was their success in integrating non-Muslim communities into their own. Less than half of their population in the 150...

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... but also by helping to defeat and crush the Left and progressive nationalism throughout the Islamic world, it freed up the space for political Islam as the only ideological and organizational expression of popular resentment. This resentment is the cause of US disrespectful attitude towards the citizens of ... contrary is seen as the US definite purpose was to create a monster (ME regimes) by assembling the elements produced by the decomposition of various Muslim societies to carry out the dirty work that itself was unable to carry out. As a result, Anti-Western sentiment is seeing throu...

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... Female circumcision is not generally found in southern Africa or in the Arabic-speaking nations of North Africa, with the exception of Egypt. Female circumcision occurs among Muslims, Christians, and Islam's, although no religion requires it. Africa encompasses innumerable social groups, each possessing different foundations for their religion, culture, and tradition. Because of this, the reasons for practicing female ... circumcision: Islamic and other African religions are one of the primary foundations of female circumcision in Africa. The sources of the Islamic faith are found in the...

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... are the key role of social media, difference of results in monarchies and dictatorial political setups, and the containment of the dissent to the Muslim world. On the global level, a new era of competition among the superpowers for influence in this as yet disorganized region, as part ... autocratic regimes offers the hope for democracy and new freedoms. Some issues apparent in all of these countries include economic problems, the role of Islam in the political system, security concerns, and a lack of experience with democracy. Democracy grows best when begun and incubated in a country t...

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... Arabic, which is the language of their religion. Despite a history of conquests, the Berbers have retained a remarkably homogeneous culture. Education and Religion: Until their conquest in the 7th century by Muslim Arabs, most of the Berbers were Christian (also, a sizable minority had accepted Judaism), and many heresies of the early African church, particularly Donatism, were essentially Berber protests against the rule ... against the Arabs, and in the 9th century they supported the Fatimid dynasty in its conquest of N. Africa. Although they accepted Islam as a new religion, the Berb...

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... , some may be surprised that it's not isolated to such areas; rather, it has been reported in lower Africa and Asia as well, where the muslim religion is much harder to find among the local inhabitants. Many may not even know what Female Genital Mutilation is. FGM is defined as all procedures involving partial or total ... barbaric practices (Female Genital Mutilation Around the World). There are no figures to show how common female genital mutilation is in Asian countries, but the practice has been reported in Muslim countries such as Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia. The practice ha...

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... family so if she commits any violation, the family will be viewed negatively in society. The only way to remove the negative perception is through honor killing the female. Since Islam is the dominant religion in Arab societies and it is responsible for assigning the female the role of honor carrying, then this phenomenon has spread across the entire Arabic region ... frequent there. The United Nations reports that an estimated 5,000 honor killings occur worldwide with 72% of the killings happening in the Muslim world [Pyh10]. It is very important to keep in mind that 93% of the Arab po...

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... conceiving children. Amnesty International estimates that over 130 million women have undergone female genital mutilation with a predicted 2 million undergoing the procedure this year. Female genital mutilation is performed in mostly Muslim areas of the world including Somalia, Egypt, Ethiopia and Mali. In Somalia, nearly 100% of the women have undergone female genital mutilation. Recently, due to immigration to the west, increasingly ... can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians; scientists have found female mummies where this procedure took place. There is now a debate over whether ...

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