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As fears about the Islamization of politics in the Muslim world grow, Bangladesh has moved in the opposite direction. The country's relatively anonymous international stature belies its strategic importance. Its secular politicians' ability to defeat the country's Islamists decisively in recent parliamentary elections may, indeed, have revived the viability of "Muslim democracy" around the world.

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