Sentence examples for islam widespread from inspiring English sources

Islamist groups, affiliated with Al Qaeda, have singled out Sufism, a moderate, mystical form of Islam widespread in Mali, for attack.

Photograph by Sebastian Liste / NOOR for The New Yorker Tunisia has many advantages over other Arab states: no deep ethnic or sectarian divisions; no oil wealth that distorts the economy and draws foreign interference; a tradition of moderate Islam; widespread literacy; a small, apolitical army.

Nevertheless, the perception that America is hostile to Islam remains widespread, much to the satisfaction of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and the government of Iran.

But their extreme version of Islam attracted widespread criticism.

Meriam Ibrahim was sentenced in May to hang for renouncing Islam, sparking widespread outrage at home and abroad.

But in a disputed article published in 1996, historian Youssef Mroueh said Columbus' entry was proof that Muslims had reached the Americas first and that "the religion of Islam was widespread".

Hilal admits that it could be beneficial for American Muslims to forcefully condemn the extremists, given that negative views about Islam are widespread.

Saudi clerics have relied on the Middle East's explosive sectarian divisions to motivate Saudi youth to travel to Syria and wage jihad against the Shia/Alawite political order, but as many Syrians (both pro and anti-Assad) are secularists who practice a moderate form of Islam, the widespread rejection of Wahhabism in Syria undermines Riyadh's soft-power there.

Mr. Ahmed smoothly articulates the sophisticated, politicized version of Islam that has become widespread here.

So broad are its aims -- the global triumph of Islam -- and so widespread its foes that it can wage its war wherever and whenever it likes: from Manhattan to Mombasa.

In the Arab world, aspirations for democracy and prosperity were also widespread, but Islam in its various forms offered either a strong modifying force or even outright opposition to the Western model of human rights and liberation of sexual minorities.