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It is in the battle for Islam's soul that the United States and liberal Islam share a common strategic goal: the systematic dismantlement and delegitimization of the rogue Islamist discourse that portrays America as an anti-Islam crusader and Islam as an ideology of hate and violence.

Die Frage, ob Demokratie und Islam miteinander vereinbar sind, bewegt die wissenschaftliche Forschung gegenwärtig in hohem Maße. In Bezug auf Indonesien lassen sich Belege dafür finden, dass Islam und Demokratie voneinander profitieren können. Dies ist vor allem auf den besonderen Charakter des Islam in Indonesien zurückzuführen. Der moderat-tolerante Charakter des indonesischen Islam und die Struktur der indonesischen Gesellschaft stellen eine Art Garantie gegen eine Machtübernahme durch radikale Islamisten dar. Nach dem Bali-Zwischenfall vom Oktober 2002 sieht sich Indonesien jedoch starkem internationalem Druck ausgesetzt, der zu einer Radikalisierung des indonesischen Islam führen könnte. (ICEÜbers)

RECENT EVENTS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD HAVE FUELED THE ILLUSION THAT ALL SECULARIZING EFFORTS ARE DOOMED TO FAILURE, WHICH IS AT VARIANCE WITH BOTH THE FACTS OF HISTORY AND WITH PRESENT REALITIES. IT IS OBVIOUSLY TRUE THAT MUSLIM SOCIETIES HAVE ENCOUNTERED OBSTACLES IN THEIR SECULARIZING EFFORTS, AND SOMETIMES HAVE EVEN BEEN FORCED TO SHIFT THEIR COURSE. SECULARIZATION HAS ALSO KNOWN ITS DISCONTINUITIES AND CAESURAE, SUCH AS ENDED WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ISLAMIC REGIME IN IRAN, AND THERE WILL PROBABLY BE OTHERS IN THE FUTURE. BUT THE GENERAL FACT REMAINS. THOUGH SPORADIC REVERSALS MAY TAKE PLACE AT THE SURFACE, THE PROCESS OF SECULARIZATION CONTINUES ITS NORMAL COURSE. CONTEMPORARY MODELS, EVEN MANY OF THOSE THAT EXPLICITLY PROCLAIM THEMSELVES ISLAMIC, ARE STRIKING EXAMPLES OF THIS DEEP-SEATED PROCESS.