POL 1025 Chapter Notes -United Nations Development Programme, Wahhabism, Fareed Zakaria
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1. 5 billion muslims living in more than 150 countries surprising support for osama bin laden: extremists have now been isolated, we no longer fear the possibility of a major country succumbing to jihadist ideology. In most muslim nations, mainstream rulers have stabilized their regimes and their societies: modern, somewhat secular forces are clearly in control and widely supported across the. In 2001, the un development program published a detailed study of the arab world and said that in an era of globalization, openness, diversity, and tolerance, the arabs were the world"s laggards. In 2005, king abdullah ascended to the throne and inaugurated a large-scale political and intellectual effort aimed at discrediting the ideology of jihadism: perhaps the most successful country to combat jihadism has been the most populous. Jemaah islamiah has been marginalized and main-stream parties have gained ground, and a young democracy has grown after the collapse of the.
