Destiny Disrupted

336 DESTINY DISRUPTED was discovered. With power distributed throughout society in these coun- tries, with avenues of participat ...

THE TIDE TURNS 337 Certainly, governments could not depend on that tax base to fund their ambitious development programs. Once t ...

338 DESTINY DISRUPTED entertainment tastes might run to alcohol, nightclubs, opera. Their chil- dren might listen to rock and ro ...

THE TIDE TURNS 339 erated by the traditional economies of these countries, it was lots of money. Aid like this relieved ever-mor ...

340 DESTINY DISRUPTED outfit called SAVAK to consolidate his grip on the country, and as if just to salt his countrymen's wounds ...

THE TIDE TURNS 341 despotism but for his modernism-for promoting the western dress code, favoring women's rights, allowing night ...

342 DESTINY DISRUPTED ended with an odd or even number. I remember getting up long before dawn every other day that winter to se ...

THE TIDE TURNS 343 yond all fantasies. They thrilled to the idea of an apocalypse coming that would give them Earth and Heaven w ...

344 DESTINY DISRUPTED transformed Iran into an "Islamic Republic" ruled by the most conserva- tive clerics oflran's orthodox Shi ...

THE TIDE TURNS 345 Iran's oil; perhaps he felt threatened by Khomeini-as he had good reason to be: Khomeini blatantly announced ...

346 DESTINY DISRUPTED living in 1990 to one that approached the most impoverished on Earth. In- comes dropped about 95 percent. ...

THE TIDE TURNS 347 For years, they had been describing a world bifurcated between Dar al- Islam and Dar al-Harb. For years they ...

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AFTERWORD Although history is not over, the period since 9/11 has not mulched down enough to enter history yet: it still belongs ...

350 AFTERWORD entertainment, and the secularization of the rich elite along with the ever- hardening gap between rich and poor. ...

AFTERWORD 351 wielded such clout in the United States since the 1970s. Tariq Ali wrote a book after 9/11 titled The Clash of Fun ...

352 AFTERWORD ills in Iraq and Afghanistan and other troubled regions. Upon the success- ful completion of such elections, the c ...

AFTERWORD 353 Jordan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt helps bring democracy to those soci- eties, not to mention the blessings of a ...

354 AFTERWORD This sort of well-meant simplification won't get us very far. On the other side, I often hear liberal Muslims in t ...

AFTERWORD 355 human beings should be oppressed. This is not to deny that women suffer grievously from oppressive laws in many Mu ...