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A term used by Arend Lijphart (1969) to describe a form of democracy in societies with ethnic and religious divisions.
Someone might argue that those are not Islamists. Yet, this is a matter of definition. The article tackles the issue in coming discussions.
See, for instance, The Amman Message. A project led by King Abdullah the Second to promote a moderate understanding of Islam http://ammanmessage.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=30
It is important to exclude those students since they came from different societies, cultures and educational systems; hereby including them create statistical problems in analyzing the data.
The collected data lack a very important question; what is the role of the Islamic state. However, it provides important material on how students perceive different issues of religious moralities and how the state should act towards them.
The ambiguity and sureness will be analyzed later in the article
These results were presented in an article with the title “Gender and Democratization in Jordan”. The article was presented in a conference about “Methodological nationalism—transnational reality: crossing civic cultural borderlines” in Joensuu campus, University of Eastern Finland, October, 14 2010 and will be published soon.
The relation between the students’ support of applying religious rules and the social and political injustice is confirmed in the interviews as the article will demonstrate soon.
Needless to say that the names here are not the real names of the students
An Arabic expression, which means everyone says what suits him without any reference.
“The Arab term for intercession on behalf of a friend, relative, business partner, etc. describes informal personal relations with the purpose a mutual benefit”. (Schlumberger 2002: 250)
Relocating the family members of a murderer in order to protect them from being attacked by the victim’s family members, to ease the blood heat of the victim family member, foret eldam, and as a collective punishment of the crime.
It is important to note that the student does not claim to be secular or that the state should not interfere with applying religious rules at all. This is clear in his statement “the state cannot apply all religious rules at once; Little by little”.
Though the interview was conducted in Dec. 2009, the student mentioned George W. Bush.
Further crosstabulation analyses, which add each of those two variables as a layer in the other variable show that the two variables do not affect each other. This means that both variables have relation with the students’ answers.
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Kabatilo, F. Islamic state without Islamists: Jordanian students talk about the ideal state. Cont Islam 7, 85–106 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-013-0248-9
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