| His Islamization was, therefore, selective and affected the weaker sections of society. |
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| Women and religious minorities became the main victims of Zia's Islamization. |
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| Much more successful have been above-ground fundamentalist groups that use strong-arm tactics to push for Indonesia's Islamization. |
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| In the 1980s, under the military dictatorship of Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, the blasphemy law was introduced as part of the Islamization of society. |
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| The country is still committed to some sort of legal and social, and even, to a degree, political, Islamization. |
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| Zia may have lacked popular support, but his policies of militarization and Islamization had a profound effect on State institutions and their responses to democracy and human rights. |
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| It appears that many of the debates in Pakistan concern the content and method of Islamization, not any meaningful form of return to secularization. |
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| Over time, the army, including its intelligence arm, has intensified the Islamization of Pakistani politics, nurtured the Taliban and opened the political space for extremist parties. |
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| In the interim Egyptian officials will expend greater effort to step up the dialog with the Islamists and try to ensure that domestic and foreign policies continue along the path of gradual Islamization. |
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| Oil wealth and support from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states as well as Libya provided international support for government Islamization programs as well as for individual Islamist movements. |
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| In January 2008, the mayors of 15 Belgian municipalities gathered to request a ban on the construction of mosques and a halt to the Islamization of European cities. |
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| In my speeches, I will warn my American colleagues of the dangers of Islamization. |
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| Nonetheless, the Islamization and Arabization of the region was a complicated and lengthy process. |
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| The beginnings of this sculpture type started with the Islamization of Sulu. |
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| Most Arabic pagans became virtually extinct during Muhammad's era by way of Islamization. |
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| A minimalist definition of Islamism, then, can be said to be a Shariafication or Islamization of the state and society. |
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| Arabic paganism gradually disappeared during Muhammad's era through Islamization. |
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| When self-rule was granted and the entire administration of the Sudan was handed over to the northern Sudanese, immediately they started their Islamization and Arabization policies, which did not please any southern Sudanese. |
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| Although Zia became a hero in Washington when, in 1979, he gave full support to the United States after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, it was he who brought about Pakistan's rapid Islamization. |
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| An urge to defend the nation's ghairat — a blend of intense patriotism and heightened religiosity — underpins the country's soaring anti-Americanism and growing calls for the Islamization of society. |
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