Snow-drenched Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital is a futuristic, glittering wide-boulevarded city. The skyline is of a huge mosque surrounded by stylish sky-scrapers — very similar to the imaginary mural Saddam Hussein had made inside the Convention Centre in Baghdad.   Saddam lost track of how to make it work. Kazakhstan is an example of a predominantly Muslim country that embraced the West; Iraq is one that chose to take the West on. 

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