One aim of the American invasion here was to establish a moderate center of Shiite Islam, democratically inclined and oriented to the West, that would be a counterbalance to Iran's system of clerical rule.
2. A new division within Sunni Islam itself, pitting Muslim Brotherhood oriented regimes such as Turkey and Qatar against Saudi Arabia and its allied sheikdoms.
He criticised New Zealand and Australia for sending troops to Turkey in the first world war Gallipoli campaign, claiming their motive was anti-Islam-oriented.
The N.Y.P.D. could have avoided this embarrassment by cooperating with Muslim community leaders and elected officials who last winter called for an investigation of "The Third Jihad" screening and an open review of Islam-oriented training materials.
Hardliners were suspicious of these reforms — they believed that the ostracism of the military would threaten Turkey and that the Islam-oriented government was undertaking a perilous adventure.
Islam exploded on the world scene as flag bearer of a just, lawful, tolerant and value oriented society.
It's singles oriented, not artist oriented.
The dramatic conflicts are oriented to the conflicts of the three religions involved Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and coalesce in the love of a Knight Templar for the daughter of Nathan, the wise Jew who embodies the ideal of humanity.
Theology, philosophically oriented discipline of religious speculation and apologetics that is traditionally restricted, because of its origins and format, to Christianity but that may also encompass, because of its themes, other religions, including especially Islam and Judaism.
