![]() ![]() She pledged to work with the United States and the West to ensure that Pakistan ceased to be the petri dish of international radicals, and to re-establish its bona fides as a realistic and effective moderate alternative for one billion Muslims around the world. It argues that democracy, economic development, moderation and modernity are the greatest threats to international terrorism. RECONCILIATION was her compelling and convincing prescription for the country at the heart of the so-called 'clash of civilizations'. In this important new book, completed just days before her assassination, Ms Bhutto demonstrats that extremism is not inherent to Islam, but that various factors, including some policies of the West, have empowered Islamic fundamentalists and are responsible for the current battle for the hearts, minds and bodies of the Umma (the Islamic nation around the world). ![]() ![]() ![]() Part of that process was a clear-eyed assessment of where Pakistan was, and of the nature of its relationship with the West, with Islam, and with extremism. In exile for years, in late 2007 she felt the time had come to actively re-engage and to return to the country she loved. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party, was seen as vital to that country's future. In Reconciliation, Bhutto recounts in gripping detail her final months in Pakistan and offers a bold new agenda for how to stem the tide of Islamic radicalism and to rediscover the values of tolerance and justice that lie at the heart of her religion. Conservative Muslims tend to view the western worlds advocacy of human rights as a modern agenda by which the West hopes to establish its hegemony over the. ![]()
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