pan-arab

Altogether, the major Islamic parties suffered a drop in support from 38 percent in 2004 to less than 26 percent this year, according to the Indonesian Survey Institute, an independent polling firm whose figures are in keeping with partial official results. probably because, unlike in the other nations undergoing islamic radicalization, we aren't at war with indonesia and they have no real ties to the pan-arab movement either (regarding the Israeli / palestine situation).

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Saddam was almost entirely secular through most of his dictatorship, only occasionally invoking Islam when necessary to make for a sound-bite….the Ba’ath party was a Secular pan-arab one, after all.

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