BU Alumni Web - Bostonia - Winter 2007-2008
My alma mater's take on why the Muslim world is in the eye of virtually every storm. It strikes me that it is emotionally based. The article starts:
"Husain Haqqani recalls a Newsweek cover from October 2001: a Pakistani child brandishing a gun and the headline "Why They Hate Us." The photo is emblematic of a question that has haunted Haqqani, director of BU's Center for International Relations and a College of Arts and Sciences associate professor of international relations. "I have always wondered why the Muslim world is in the eye of virtually every storm, in my lifetime at least," he says. "The Middle East is a cauldron. The India-Pakistan conflict has a Muslim dimension. In Russia, there's Chechnya, another Muslim dimension." Why is the Muslim world plagued by instability, undemocratic governments, and sectarian violence?Haqqani has set out to find answers."

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