And he maintains that those who neglect religion in the analysis of contemporary affairs, do so at great peril. Even in modern Western nations, it is not necessarily accurate to say that individuals' religiousness is on a downward trend. What does seem to be declining is the importance of ...
While freedom of religion is protected in principle, it is severely restricted in practice. The government appoints all clergy in Iraq and monitors all places of worship. Sunni Muslim Arabs, who constitute 13-16 percent of the population, dominate political and economic life, although token ...
we branded him from the start a communist. Flash forward to Iraq, where we fundamentally didn’t understand that the country’s nationalism was very complicated because it had these three communities — the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds — who hated each other, who had never really been ...