Islam | The United States Should Support Moderate Muslim Governments

Some of the most important foreign policy challenges faced by the United States today involve Islamic movements. These challenges extend throughout an “arc of crisis” extending from the Balkans through the Caucasus, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia. Though each of these situations has its own historic, ethnic, and political context, all involve Muslims asserting their identity and pursuing political goals against both non-Muslim and Muslim regimes. In Bosnia, Chechnya, Nagorno- Karabagh, Algeria, Gaza and the West Bank, Southern Lebanon, Afghanistan, and...

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