Tremors Along Global Islamic ‘Fault Lines’
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A note impaled on Van Gogh’s body by the alleged Muslim killer threatened further attacks against Dutch politicians in the name of Islam. The body of the 60-year-old Buddhist worker in Thailand also was found last week with a message: “More will be killed” in revenge for the deaths of 85 Muslim protesters last month in a region with a mounting Islamic insurgency.“The fault lines are growing,” said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of Middle Eastern and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. “It’s not just between the Muslims and non-Muslims. It’s also within Islam itself. It’s a battle between moderate Muslims and extremist forces that threaten to hijack Islam.”
The most recent hot spots zigzag around the atlas — from Liberia in West Africa to the Netherlands to Southeast Asia. They join a growing roster of places already feeling the strains of religious conflict and terrorism along the edges of the Islamic world — regions as diverse as Chechnya, Nigeria, Spain, Central Asia and the Philippines. Even China is worried about separatist sentiment in its vast and mostly Muslim western province of Xinjiang.
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