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Blast At Spy Agency In NW Pakistan Kills Seven

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Peshawar, Jihad, Peshawar Bombing, Terrorism, Pakistan, Taliban, South Waziristan, Islamists, Al Qaeda, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and st...

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Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Barak, Emir of Qatar, Islamists, Extremism, Ammar Mousawi, Peace Process, Bernard Kouchner, Palestine, Lebanon, Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, Shiite, Lieberman, US State Department, Middle East, Usama Hamdan, Cairo, Oprah, Taliban, Khaled Meshaal, Israel, US President, Resistance, Abu Mazen, Hassan Nasrallah, Us, Terrorism, Sunni, World News
Sharmine Narwani

While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.

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The Taliban's Ties to Al-Qaeda

Will Marshall | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Al-Qaeda, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Al-Qaida, Taliban, Islamists, Al Qaeda, World News
Will Marshall

How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.

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The Islamist Threat In Tunisia Still Justifies the Stagnation of the Political Scene

Amel Boubekeur | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Tunisian Islamic Front, North Africa, Tunisia, Foreign Affairs, Africa, Islamists, Annahda, Terrorism, Radical Islam, World News
Amel Boubekeur

The Tunisian president has not chosen to address religious radicalism and terrorism through transparent solutions that are respectful of civil liberties.

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Islamists and the Future of Democracy in the Arab World

John L. Esposito | Posted 09.22.2009 | World

Read More: Arab World, Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Global Terrorism, World News
John L. Esposito

The Bush legacy in the Muslim world leaves America with a significant credibility gap to overcome.

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What if the Right was Right? A Reflection on the "Christian States of America."

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Fundamentalism, Social Justice, President Obama, Teabaggers, Islamists, Secularism, Violence, Globalization, Gun Control, International Law, Obama, Christian Nation, Religious Right, Guns, Nation-State, Politics, Gandhi, Us Constitution, Moral Majority, Christ, Taxation, Health Care, Spirituality, Taxes, Christian Right, Jesus, Terrorism, War, Democracy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Terroists, Nonviolence, Jesus Christ, Far Right, Progressive Christianity, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Christianity, Socialism, World, Gospels, Politics News
Cynthia Boaz

I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.

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The Ultimate Divide

Wael Nawara | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Neocons, Zionism, International Justice System, Islamists, Clash of Civilizations, Armageddon, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Extremism, Egypt, Lebanon Election, Iran Election, Pakistan, World News
Wael Nawara

The recent events in Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon and even inside the United States, show that we are experiencing a deep divide in our world.

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The Neo-Islamists' March of Ignorance

Abukar Arman | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: War in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shariah, Islamic Courts, Islamists, Islamic Law, Tfg, World News
Abukar Arman

Neo-Islamists can only win this war of ideas when they succeed in winning the hearts and minds of the Somali people, yet they seem convinced that sustained violence will achieve them that end.

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Arrested Moroccan Islamists Planned To Attack Jews

AFP | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

Read More: Morocco Islamists, Jews, Africa, Morocco, Foreign Affairs, Moroccan Jews, Morocco Jews, Islamist Militants, Islamists, Advocacy, World News

A group of alleged Islamists recently arrested in Morocco planned to attack Jewish interests in the country, a court source said Thursday, citing the ...

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Somali Militants Capture Strategic Town, Setback To Unstable Government

BBC | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

Read More: Somalia Islamist Insurgents, Somalia Islamic Insurgents, Somali Insurgents, Somalia, Mogadishu, Mogadishu Somalia, Islamist Militants, Islamists, Somali Militants, Africa, World News

Hardline Islamist militants have captured a strategically important town north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, eyewitnesses say....

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Pakistan Taliban Exploit Class Rifts To Gain Power

New York Times | JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Peshawar, Pakistan Islamists, Islamic Law, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Pakistan Islamic Law, Peshawar Pakistan, Taliban, Pakistan-Swat-Valley, Islamists, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small gro...

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Pakistan Soon To Be Islamist State: US Experts

McClatchy | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Uprising, Intelligence Officials, Pakistan Opposition, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Pakistan Crisis, Pakistan Islamists, Taliban, Islamist Militants, Islamists, Pakistan State of Emergency, Advocacy, World News

A growing number of U.S. intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials have concluded that there's little hope of preventing nuclear-armed Pakistan f...

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Yemen Islamists Fight Law Banning Child Marriage

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Yemen, Islamists, Islam, Child Marriage, Child Bride, Yemen Child Marriage, Yemen Child Brides, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, World News

SAN'A, Yemen — She was 2 years old when her father promised her in marriage to a man in his 30s. It was a swap, so the father could marry the ma...

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Karzai, Zardari Meet In Turkey To Discuss Combating Islamist Extremism

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

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Afghan president Hamid Karzai has met his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, to discuss ways to combat Islamist extremists in both countries....

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Mullah Omar Calls For A Taliban Surge

New York Times | Robert Mackey | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

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In spirit, the attack on the Pashtun poet's shrine in Pakistan seems to echo one of the Afghan Taliban's most infamous acts of cultural cleansing: the...

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Yemen hosts African refugees despite economic woes, social problems

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 03.31.2009 | World

Read More: African Refugees, Islamists, Darfur, Somalia, Bab Al-Mandeb, Sana’A, Indian Ocean, Yemen, Arab World, Qat, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Gulf of Aden, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Red Sea, Frontline Magazine, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh, Saudi Arabia, International Labor Organization, India, Sudan, Arabian Gulf, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

Yemen hosts thousands of African refugees fleeing unrest and poverty in their countries every year - with Somalis topping the list - despite its own e...

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Dr Fadl, Al Qaeda Founder, Launches Ideological Revolt Against Bin Laden

The Telegraph | David Blair | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaida, Egypt, Bin Ladin, Sayyid Imam Al-Sharif, Alqaida, Iraq War, Iraq, Islamist Militants, Osama Bin Ladin, Islamists, Al Qaida in Iraq, Islamist Insurgency, Al Qaeda, Zawahiri, Al-Zawahiri, Dr Fadl, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, who goes by the nom de guerre Dr Fadl, helped bin Laden create al-Qaeda and then led an Islamist insurgency in Egypt in the 199...

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Somalia: Most Dangerous Country In The World

Foreign Policy | Jeffrey Gettleman | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Mogadishu, Africa, Islamist Insurgents, Somalia, Pirates, African Union, Islamist Militants, Islamists, Dangerous Somalia, Al Qaeda, World News

In more than a dozen trips to Somalia over the past two and a half years, I've come to rewrite my own definition of chaos. I've felt the incandescent ...

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Hamas Murder Campaign In Gaza Exposed: Human Rights Group

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Strip, Human Rights, Operation Cast Lead, Hamas Fatah, Gaza Hamas, Amnesty International, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, Israel Hamas, Israel Gaza Operation, Islamists, Hamas Murder Campaign in Gaza Exposed, World News

The terrorist organization Hamas has allegedly killed and tortured dozens of people accused of being "collaborators" with Israel, according to the Gua...

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Pakistan Urges Holbrooke To Take Regional Approach

Daily Times | Sajjad Malik | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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Islamabad will urge US special envoy Richard Holbrooke to adopt a regional approach to solve the prevailing issues of terrorism and extremism, diploma...

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Holbrooke Visits Wary U.S. Ally In Pakistan

New York Times | Jane Perlez | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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When the envoy Richard C. Holbrooke arrives here Monday looking for ways to stop a runaway Islamist insurgency that is destabilizing Pakistan, he will...

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Obama Should Quit War on Terror, Talk to Hamas and Taliban

Nathan Gardels | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Taliban, Obama Middle East, Terrorism, Obama First 100 Days, Obama Hamas, Obama Foreign Policy, Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban, Islamist Militants, Islamists, Obama Hezbollah, World News
Nathan Gardels

Dealing with Hamas or the Taliban doesn't mean that if Obama talks to them they will roll over. It means that the use of force alone cannot work and that ignoring them won't make them go away

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The Ten Worst Religious Stories of 2008

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prosperity Gospel, Religion, Hunger, Buddhist Monks Mynamar, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Sarah Palin, Mumbai Attacks, Religion and Politics, Jeremiah Wright, China Tibet, Bernie Madoff, Buddhist Monks, National Press Club, Islamists, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

10. Jews feel the financial and image pain of Wall Streeter Bernie Madoff as his money lies damage Yeshiva University and Elie Weisel as well as sma...

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Terrorism in Mumbai: Is It All Over for India?

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Gateway of India, India, Mumbai, Islamists, Shashi Tharoor, Mumbai Terrorism, Politics News
Shashi Tharoor

Bombs and bullets alone cannot destroy India. What can destroy India is a change in the spirit of its people, away from the pluralism and co-existence that has been our greatest strength.

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Maximum Terror in Mumbai: Confusion Reigns

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, India, Mumbai Hotel Shootings, Islamists, Terrorism, Pakistan, Mumbai Terrorism, Mumbai, Politics News
Shuja Nawaz

The attacks in Mumbai have produced scores of deaths, though what is scarier is the possibility that this incident may spell danger for India-Pakistan relations at a time when a much-needed thaw seems to be emerging.

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