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Originally Posted by cmbdiesel
It is a poorly written story. One is left to interpret what the country is really all about. Can't be all fundamentalists, or it wouldn't be a favorite vacation spot for the uber wealthy.
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and you suggest my statement was ignorant? Do you know or have any experience in marine tourism or tourism at all?
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Originally Posted by cmbdiesel
Thereafter, the country practised a mostly liberal form of the religion, but more fundamentalist interpretations have spread with the arrival of money and ultra-conservative Salafist preachers from the Middle East.
In 2007, following a bombing that wounded a dozen foreign tourists, the former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom banned head-to-toe coverings for women as a sign of his intent to battle conservative Islamic thinking.
from the same article...
so which is it? liberal form or fundamental? seems like maybe there is an ongoing switch likely bankrolled by the hard line terrorist sect.
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Can you follow a story line? The country was more liberal then money and extreme (aka ultra conservative) preachers came. When they got violent the president wanted to slow down the march to super extreme. If you need assistance in reading comprehension there are plenty of avenues to get help.