... as bread and water have been removed, resulting in price increases, depriving access and causing poverty. A consequence has been civil unrest in countries such as Mexico, Jordan, Venezuela, Egypt, Indonesia and Nigeria. For example, Jordan was hit by bread riots in 1996. People demonstrated on the streets to denounce an increase in the price of bread, which rose from around twelve cents ... to twenty-three cents. The increase in price of the staple food of Jordan's 4.2 million people followed government reductions to wheat subsidies which were part of a forced agreement with the IMF. Th...

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... c., the modernists accepted political ideas such as democracy, evolution, emancipation of women and gained support especially after the end of WWI with the creation of new Muslim states like Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. After WWII, with the French/British colonies gaining independence, the Muslim world fragmented into nation states that were ruled by Western-influenced elites. But in the late ... , welfare and political institutions. These institutions fund military assitance to Hezbollah (the Party of God) in Lebanon (tacitly supported by the Syrian government), to The Muslim Brother...

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... c., the modernists accepted political ideas such as democracy, evolution, emancipation of women and gained support especially after the end of WWI with the creation of new Muslim states like Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. After WWII, with the French/British colonies gaining independence, the Muslim world fragmented into nation states that were ruled by Western-influenced elites. But in the late ... , welfare and political institutions. These institutions fund military assitance to Hezbollah (the Party of God) in Lebanon (tacitly supported by the Syrian government), to The Muslim Brother...

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... norms. While moderate Muslims or apologists argue that honor killings do not related to Islam, the perpetrators of such crimes say they are following the teachings of their clerics. In Jordan and other countries, the killer's belief that he is defending the family honor or acting to defend Islam can be factor that courts take into account in reducing sentences. Women ... ...

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