Brookings Institution senior fellow Shadi Hamid argues in a recently released book that modern political and military actions involving Islam and Islamic countries are complicated by a general misunderstanding of the religion – and in particular the intertwined nature of state and religion. – USNI News
[General Petraeus] defended the use of U.S. military forces abroad, saying that when the United States does not get involved in ungoverned spaces in the Middle East, northern Africa or southwest Asia, Islamist extremists will. The effects of those militant operations will spill into other countries, Petraeus said, citing the “veritable geopolitical Chernobyl” in Syria that has caused a “tsunami of refugees” to flee to European countries. – Washington Post’s Checkpoint
Brookings Institution senior fellow Shadi Hamid argues in a recently released book that modern political and military actions involving Islam and Islamic countries are complicated by a general misunderstanding of the religion – and in particular the intertwined nature of state and religion. – USNI News
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