1) What is unique about Central Asia's experience with Islam? What did you learn from the focus on this specific context?

2) Familiarize yourself with one of the following organizational sites. Find a page or report that stood out to you and tell us what insights or arguments you learned from it (regarding our topic for this week). These organizations represent a range of agendas and purposes -- you may wish to read their "About" pages to determine where the sources are coming from: (total words 500) Need references as well.

Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID)

Foreign Policy Research Institute

[ [Middle East Forum] ]

Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)

Middle East Research Institute (MERI)

The RAND Corporation's page on the topic