Islam's Happy Faces
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6733345/site/newsweek/
The year to come will witness changes both long-term and short, sharp
and dramatic. Here are 10 leaders, scientists, executives and artists
who will be at the forefront of it all.
By Owen Matthews and Lorien Holland
Newsweek International
Dec. 27 / Jan. 3 issue - Call them the new faces of the Islamic world.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, 65, and Turkey's Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, 50, are two Muslim leaders who have set out to prove
that Islamic societies can be tolerant, democratic and prosperous-and
that they can co-operate, instead of clash, with more developed Western
countries. The nations they lead may be on different sides of the
world, but the two prime ministers share similar challenges as they
attempt to define what it means to be a modern Muslim nation. First,
they are searching for ways to transcend fundamentalist doctrines-or
what Abdullah calls "extremists on both sides [who] will drive our
civilizations apart." But both men are also finding that the real key
to creating a functional Muslim society lies not in theorizing, but in
the nuts and bolts of good governance-promoting economic and judicial
reform, stamping out corruption, opening their economies to competition
and investment. Their shared goal is to ensure that while Islam is a
part of their nation's identity, it does not set the entire agenda.
Malaysia OR Malaysian OR Malaysians OR Malay OR Malays OR Malaya
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Turkey
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