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God Willing: The Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh | 
 enlarge | Author: Ali Riaz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
Buy New: $88.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2776545
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0742530841
Dewey Decimal Number: 954.9205
EAN: 9780742530843
ASIN: 0742530841
Publication Date: June 15, 2004
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Is Bangladesh becoming a Taliban state? The question has become urgent in light of the growing strength of militant groups supposedly aligned with Al Quaida, the landslide victory of the center-right coalition in the general election of October 2001, and the deliberate and planned violence against religious minorities that followed. God Willing explores the explosive issue of Talibanization by analyzing the politics of Islamism in the world's third most populous Muslim country. Ali Riaz helps the reader to understand the emergence of Islamism as a legitimate democratic political in a largely secular state, as opposed to the media's sensational portrayal of Bangladesh as a country overrun by Islamist forces with a supranational agenda. The author compares Bangladesh with Indonesia and Pakistan, thus adding a valuable global context for evaluating the politics of Muslim countries.
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 Welcome to the mind of a confused babbler!! December 23, 2005
RLR (UGA)
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is not a book, it's more like a bland paper to be submitted to scome academic journal. The author claims that bangladesh is becoming a hotbed of fundamentalism, yet the constitution is firmly based on secular principles. They even have Christmas, Doorga Pooja, Diwali as state holidays. If you're interested in reading the biased opinion's of a perosn, you might like the book, but if you want intelligent interpretation / exposition of facts, you'll be disappointed.
 Good observations March 5, 2006
Farseem Mohammedy (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Its a good reading. Although the book is decorated with endless academic jargon, it presents the modern history of Bangladesh in a less-biased way. The authors style is very academic and he looks at the political set-up in a secular way. The reader can actually feel there is a sort of leftist touch when he sees that the author is referring to Gramsci not infrequently. But then the author is determined to explain the forces and motivation behind the ruling clique in a socio-political structure. I liked his observations.
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