... Christian bias certainly plays a part in this issue but culpability may be placed in the lap of the media and their representation of Muslims and western antipathy towards Islam as a whole. Continually appearing in Australian headlines are words such as extremist and fundamentalist in regards to the tradition of Islam and ... letter to the editor section. However this plea in the small insignificant section of the paper was drowned out by headlines such as "The Islamic front is at our back", "A new evil imperils the world Islamo-facism has ended our post-cold war complacency" and "Arrest...

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... belief in a "clash of civilizations" is on shaky ground. Perhaps no other article, later expanded into a book, helped define the position of many Western scholars better than Samuel P. Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations". In it Huntington argues that "the underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It ... his book "Islam and Jihad", Noorani attempts to show that the different interpretations of jihad in Islam have contributed to the continued animosity between Western and Muslim cultures. The notion that jihad is something that can be used as a justification for att...

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... ,000 fighters from over 80 countries in ISIS's ranks as of November 2014. US intelligence estimated an increase to around 20,000 foreign fighters in February 2015, including 3,400 from Western countries. There are allegations of support from countries in Southwest Asia. The two major countries are Turkey and Qatari. Turkey has been further criticized for allowing individuals from outside the ... ISIS, it has been criticized for not doing enough to stem the flow of financing. Private donors within Qatar, sympathetic to the aims of radical groups such as al-Nusra Front and ISIS, are beli...

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... safely in Indonesia. "Some have come by air, but most have sneaked into Pakistan, then traveled several thousand miles in fishing boats from Arabian Sea ports," the daily said. The front-page report by Jonathan Weisman said the Pentagon wants to send troops to Indonesia, but was facing opposition from President Megawati Sukarnoputri's government as it was "fearful of rising anger ... the USA Today report, he said the presence of US forces in Indonesia would not be conducive to national security. He expressed regret that certain Western countries had linked social conflicts in Indonesia ...

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... "Al-Qaida" or "the Base" is originated from the term used to refer to the place where Saudi militant Osama bin Ladin train terrorists against the United States and other western countries. It was established around 1988 and the top members of the organization come from all over Islamic world. Al-Qaida is a network of many different fundamentalist organizations in diverse ... countries. Its primary ideology is the using of terrorism to attain their political goal and to overthrow western-influenced government and to replace them with Islamic regimes under the rule of Shariah, or Islamic ...

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... stores were hard pressed to keep U.S. apparel and memorabilia in stock. Driving up and down the streets of even small mid-western towns, one would find it difficult to find a house with out an American flag, flying in the front yard. Patriotism spread like wildfire, covering the United States from the northeastern tip of Maine to the islands of Hawaii within a matter ... ...

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The war on the western front in 1915 became trench warfare, putting Britain in a bad position. The British had lost the battle at Gallipoli against the Ottomans but refused to give up. When Britain realized that ... ...

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... times and attitudes are changing and that mostly black scholars have pushed for Egypt to be recognized as an advanced African civilization that has customs and language patterns similar to western and sub-Saharan Africa. The first section I visited was "Egypt and Beyond", which began with a collection of Assyrian art filled with half-man/half animal images much like the walls ... religious ceremonies. This exhibit showed several short films which I enjoyed. The men of one tribe spend several hours adorning themselves with face paint, feathered headdresses and jewelry to parade in front ...

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... of thinking referred to as Aristotelian materialism was the beginning of scientific inquiry and because of this he is referred to as the father of modern science. The history of Western civilization can be defined as a conflict between the ancient Greek and Roman world. This also can be said as the conflict between Platonic Spiritualism and Aristotelian materialism. The Ancient Greek ... people of the time believed strongly in Platonic Spiritualism. At around 1500, people began to think that they wanted to do more than prepare for death by putting faith in front of everything else. This...

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