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winterbadger) wrote2007-01-26 11:08 am
winterbadger) wrote2007-01-26 11:08 am
Islam and Democracy
http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr93.html
An interesting and well-written report for the US Institute of Peace. Worth a read. It's nice to see a USG-funded institute taking the US to taks for inconsistent and hypocritical actions in resepact to promotion of human rights.
My class is almost over (just the exam to take tonight). It's been quite a valuable learning experience. As I said to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shy_kat last night, I haven't gained that much from my interaction with the professor and the other students, but I have learned a lot from the syllabus that the professer assigned, and I plan to go back and finish reading most of the coursebooks that I didn't read comepletely (though I may skip the one on the Sufis and the one on the ghulati sects: there's an awful lot there about obscure doctrinal differences that might be useful as a reference but aren't terribly interesting to me. I took a substantive (rather than structural) class to see if it was worth continuing this program. It is. If I stay at SAIC and they keep paying some or all the tuition, I will keep working on the degree.
An interesting and well-written report for the US Institute of Peace. Worth a read. It's nice to see a USG-funded institute taking the US to taks for inconsistent and hypocritical actions in resepact to promotion of human rights.
My class is almost over (just the exam to take tonight). It's been quite a valuable learning experience. As I said to
shy_kat last night, I haven't gained that much from my interaction with the professor and the other students, but I have learned a lot from the syllabus that the professer assigned, and I plan to go back and finish reading most of the coursebooks that I didn't read comepletely (though I may skip the one on the Sufis and the one on the ghulati sects: there's an awful lot there about obscure doctrinal differences that might be useful as a reference but aren't terribly interesting to me. I took a substantive (rather than structural) class to see if it was worth continuing this program. It is. If I stay at SAIC and they keep paying some or all the tuition, I will keep working on the degree.