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 | | Communist parties sprouted, grew and gained mass support not only in Lutheran Germany but in Confucian China and Muslim Indonesia.(274) What is more, the fundamental political relationship between 'civilizations' is better characterized by terms like 'inter-related' and 'imbricated' than by the zero-sum notion connoted by 'clash' or 'conflict'. |
 | | Indeed, after reading Ali's account, one is struck not by the uniform, but rather the multifaceted ideological functions of Islam and indeed by the difficulty of speaking as if there was one single Islam. |
 | | Over the course of the last one hundred years, Islam has functioned as an oppositional ideology, the legitimating creed for authoritarianism (Saudi-Arabia, Iran), and most recently as the theological justification for murder. |
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