Sentence examples for islamic trend from inspiring English sources

"The Islamic trend is coming to power.

"He will counterbalance the Islamic trend in Parliament".

For a pragmatic Islamic trend to truly take root "will take some more creativity," said Hossam Maklad, a researcher into Islamic movements.

Nasser's charisma and energy awakened the entire region to the postcolonial era, but he failed to find an accommodation with the Islamic trend, and he turned to Israel as a scapegoat.

Corruption was endemic, ruling party loyalists dominated university appointments, political freedoms were stifled, the quality of education suffered, the Islamic trend commanded a strong presence, and the security apparatuses kept tabs on students and professors.

He also disagrees with many scholars and commentators -- Fouad Ajami, Olivier Roy and this reviewer, among others -- who have argued that the militant Islamic trend represented by Osama bin Laden has crested, at least in most Arab lands.

"Have the erroneous policies of the United States weakened Islamic trends that favor wisdom and democracy?

And the Pakistani Army, whose leadership is still Western-oriented but whose base is increasingly affected by Islamic trends, will be influenced by that silent majority, particularly the religious parties.

Thus, both sides play the "Palestinian card" to attack the other while appealing to wider pan-Arab and pan-Islamic trends in the Middle East.

This complicates attitudes in Central Asia, where there has been a trend toward accommodation with the Afghan Islamic movement in order to ease the flow of Afghan heroin and militancy.

For the secularists, Sheikh al-Ghazali had come to represent a dangerous convergence between Egypt's radical and moderate Islamic political trends.