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We still try to address problems like poverty and Islamic extremism by trying to tease out individual causes.

The party is an Islamic-rooted movement, and there is nothing Islamists do better than serve ordinary people and mobilise in times of need.

Some Iranians did not conceal their hope that the Islamic Republic, whatever its public words on the subject, would end up making a bomb.

Both the idea and the word existed in pre-Islamic Arabian tradition, in which some evidence of a primitive monotheism can also be found.

Witnesses said the killers left a flag at the checkpoint, the black flag of the Islamic State of Iraq.

Experts said the East Turkestan Islamic Movement was believed to be a very small organisation.

It was in the, this month of the American president reached out to Iran and a wider Islamic world in a major speech in Cairo.

With a revived opposition mounting a number of large protests, the Islamic Republic ought to be looking across the region with trepidation.

The president said the continued existence of Guantanamo is one of the top recruiting tools of Islamic extremists.

He said the relationship between the Islamic world and the West often dominated by fears of terrorism must expand beyond security issues.

That would be a serious blow to PKR, and its two coalition partners, an Islamic party and a Chinese-dominated one.

The other is that too many Islamic clerics seem to sanction or at least tolerate violence in the name of religion.

The main myth they promoted was that Bush was the Christian philosopher-king heading a new crusade against Islamic extremism.

At least eight soldiers are dead after what authorities in Thailand say was an attack by Islamic militants in the country's south.

But a year later the Islamic militant group Hamas seized control of Gaza and stepped up rocket attacks across the border.

The newspaper said the men arrested on Friday were suspected of heading for an Islamic Jihad Union camp.

One of the main organizers of the relief effort was the Turkish charity the Foundation for Humanitarian Relief, which has Islamic roots.

Fund managers and analysts said the bond seemed to be pitched more at traditional investors in renminbi bonds than at Islamic investors.

Since the late 1990s, Islamic shows became popular, in which a sheikh is the host and people call in asking him for Fatwas.

But the rise of aggressive Islamic fundamentalism and its accompanying threat of home-grown terrorism has changed all that.

The Islamic Republic had its own revolt a year ago, after the stolen presidential election incited the uprising known as the green movement.

He said the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) was a terrorism organization listed by the United Nations.

And Islamic terrorism was one of those things that would surely go away if Israel would just compromise with the terrorists.

Currently, Nigeria, an Islamic extremist organization "Brocade Holy Land, " a statement, said the responsibility for the attack.

He said the motion to implement Islamic law passed without abstentions or rejections, and will now go into effect.

One of them, Islamic Jihad, said the bomber entered Israel from Jordan. Alan Johnston reports from Gaza.

But it is worth noting, as something of a precedent, the Islamic concept of zakat.

The controversy that you point out may be understandable from the fact that the Indian calendar is lunar-based, like the Islamic calendar.

He said he hoped to help his new bride to master Roman script while she taught him Islamic religious knowledge.

Wu said the gang had been acting on orders from a radical Islamic Xinjiang independence group, East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

An Israeli mayor on the front lines of the conflict with the Palestinians is calling for a truce with Islamic militants.

Before I leave let me also briefly address the events that have taken place over the last few days in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Worse, they are sold in Tehran, which many would like to call the heart of the Islamic world.

We are simply trying to be just and fair on the basis of a solid Islamic ground, which is a very hard task in itself.

Both the Palembang group and the Jakarta bombers seem to have had ties to pesantrens (Islamic boarding schools) with JI affiliations.

We are ready to cement our friendship and cooperation with Islamic countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence.

In a suburb of Jakarta, children drifting in poverty seem to have found a lifebuoy to keep them afloat in the Nurul Iman Islamic School.

The Islamic religious authority, like the police, can also carry out raids among the Muslim community to identify wrongdoing against Islam.

Mr. Sarkozy's aides scrambled later to say he had been referring to arrests among the broader Islamic movement, not the London bombers.

As a result, Islamic radicalism now seems to be becoming an increasingly serious threat to India just as it is in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Anything less would be considered treasonous, for the Islamic Republic now exists in a carefully managed state of national emergency.

Syed Zainal said the vehicle was an Iranian initiative. "What they (Iran) want to do is to call that an Islamic car, " he said.

Films featuring children were born out of necessity to tell stories in an environment governed by the Islamic Code.

Abdulrahman Asal, 4, is all over the playground at the Islamic Center of Raleigh, after a day of pre-school here.

When local Islamic leaders got to hear, they said Aftab's words constituted a divorce under an Islamic procedure known as "triple talaq. "

He said the pirates are not concerned about being attacked by alphabet or any other Islamic militant group.

Staff working in the Islamic finance sector will be able to enter computer-based exams in London and Beirut from November 2006.

China has been trying to suppress separatist movements in its own Islamic western region for many years.

He made the comments at Jordan's biggest mosque in a speech aimed at improving relations between Roman Catholicism and the Islamic world.

Nevertheless, the Crusades, to make direct contact with Western Europe was more advanced Byzantine civilization and Islamic civilization.

"We hope the ladies employed at the taxi company display their capabilities in social activities by respecting Islamic values, " he said.

It has been battling up to 200 Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp near the Mediterranean city of Tripoli.

The construction of the Islamic Center was an international affair. It was designed by Italian architect Mario Rossi.

Islamic banking operates by sharing profit or loss between the bank and its clients, instead of interest, which is forbidden.

Osama's Galatea was sculpted, conveniently, out of a love with the ideal of "defence" of the "Umma" , the global Islamic community.

Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic would not cheat or betray the vote of the people.

If it is the Islamic world , the US should stop intruding into Russia's geopolitical space and work out a long- term engagement with China .

Hadith is a source of Islam and it has been a guide of Islamic spiritual heritage and a guide for practical life.

But conservative parliamentarians argued the bill violated Sharia, or Islamic law, which does not stipulate a minimum age of marriage.

The jihad for him was not about resistance and liberation, he said. It was about establishing a pan-Islamic state.

Some small number of the Muslims believe in the Islamic extremism, whose actions have been one of the reasons of the regional instability.

Even if the fate of Christians in the Islamic world were far worse, that would not be a reason for the West to mistreat Muslims.

The Afghan Islamic Press news agency said the Taliban insurgents were responsible for the abduction.

After enjoying the flowers, many guests check out the paintings, pottery and jewelry on display at the garden's Islamic art museum.

Their goal was to take up the jihadist cause around the world, righting perceived wrongs under the accordance of pure, Islamic law.

Islamic charities suspected to be linked with outlawed militant groups have continued to operate, defying the government's ban.

Many of the sternest Islamic regimes give men absolutely no choice in the matter.

One of the least known and least publicized current wars involving Islamic extremists is the ongoing jihad in southern Thailand.

Once an ally of the president, he has broken ranks to call for an Islamic caliphate.

To change the country's constitution in favour of an avowedly Islamic one, he said, would be "unacceptable to Indonesians" .

In Islamic tradition, they argue, the ambitions of any individual are set aside for the common good of the umma, or community.

But when he was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution, the new rulers did not want the tanks and cancelled the arms' order.

Mankind is still at risk from far more dangerous weapons and vanities than those likely to be possessed by Islamic fanatics.

China has a huge stake in the global capitalist economy that Islamic terrorists aim to overthrow. And China, like the U.

A Muslim couple in India has been told by local Islamic leaders they must separate after the husband "divorced" his wife in his sleep.

Like the navy, the army and the air force have their regular components as well as Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

I am worried to see that the governing institutions in Iran are pushing the country and Islamic Republic into an endless hole.

The tape is said to be from Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State of Iraq, The claim could not be verified.

frankfurt airport and a sprawling us military base in germany , both set to be targets of three suspected islamic terrorists now in custody.

The Islamic militant group Hamas, that rules Gaza, said the new ceasefire was requested by Egyptian mediators.

President Barack Obama has used the fact that his father was a Muslim to foster better relations with the Islamic world.

But to see General Musharraf as lone defender against the Islamic tide is to misread Pakistan.

"Today, Islamic fundamentalists have come out of the woodwork, and there are recurring attacks on Christians, " Cardinal Naguib said.

Jasmin Tabatabai was born and lived in Tehran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, at which point she migrated with her mother to Germany.

Egypt is trying to mediate a long term ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas which rules Gaza.

He said if Israel launches deadly air strikes on Gaza, the Islamic Jihad will retaliate by the same measure.

It seemed to me that I had to grasp the essence of Islamic architecture.

And in conservative Islamic societies, marriage for many is the only launch there is into independence, dignity, and a life of one's own.

Under Islamic law, the punishment is mandatory for offences like adultery, but it's believed to be too harsh for a young girl.

the status of islamic bank in relation to its clients is that of partners , investors and trader , buyer and seller.

From a Judeo-Christian-Islamic perspective, the Garden of Eden was a fruitarian haven.

Two other factors need to be considered: the war on Islamic radicalism, and deep cultural affinities between America and Israel.

But it is growing at a rate of fifteen to twenty percent a year. There is growing interest in Islamic banking in the West.

The zurna, also known as the surna, is an instrument from Islamic areas including Iran, Mesopotamia, and Syria.

Ali Akbar Salehi said the reactors will produce nuclear material that will be exported to other Islamic countries for medical research.

The hope was that these videos would get Muslims thinking the Mahdi -- the Islamic Messiah -- was coming.

In an audio address released in February, al-Zawahri noted that bin Laden assigned him to advise Mujahideen on Islamic Sharia law.

After all, Islamic resistance to westernization is not a new phenomenon, though it has taken on a new and potentially cataclysmic dimension.

But it left unclear whether the country would be a secular democracy, with equal rights for all, or an Islamic state with Islamic law.

Islamic Relief works to help the poorest and neediest people around the world regardless of race, gender, or religion.

"We are like one nation and two countries, " he said, comparing Pakistan's "Islamic socialism" to the thoughts of Mao Zedong.

Mr Allawi, himself a Shia Muslim, believes the mystical (or Sufi) tradition must be an integral part of the revival of Islamic civilisation.

Karroubi said he still believed in the Islamic republic, but not the current ruling system.

As a reward the bakers were allowed to, or asked to create celebratory goodies in the shape of the Islamic crescent.

In Milani's film, a female college student is caught up in the events of the Islamic Revolution.

Like many Norwegians, he turned on the television, followed the reports and speculated that the bomb was the work of Islamic extremists.

Listen to his tone lonesome, the jade Islamic person is just face up peep out a surprised color.

He went on to become one of the most prominent critics of the Islamic republic and spent years under house arrest in the city of Qum.

Mr van Gogh, who made a controversial film about Islamic culture, was shot dead as he cycled through the city.

The Obama administration regards India as an emerging world power and a key to turning the tide against violent Islamic extremism.

After 1700, however, the Islamic peoples together with the Hindus and Buddhists of Aisa found themselves unable to stave off the Europeans.

It took months and a national referendum to decide Iran would be an Islamic republic, and longer still to write an Islamic constitution.

"We're all one, " he says, as he spins a globe on his coffee table, counting the Muslim states that once comprised the Islamic caliphate.

Indeed, the Islamic Republic, the second largest oil producer in OPEC, has come to be very concerned about petroleum.

An Islamic court in Nigeria has permanently banned a rights group from holding an internet debate about amputation as a form of punishment.

The move comes as Islamic banking continues to see strong growth, in defiance of the credit crunch.

Conservatives, including non-believers, also consider a church led by Pope Benedict to be a stout bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism.

In New York City, things are tense over plans to build an Islamic center with a mosque a few blocks away from Ground Zero.

The United States wants the Islamic Republic of Iran to take its rightful place in the community of nations.

For a group claiming to defend the Islamic ummah, these massacres had dealt a devastating blow to its credibility.

For most of its 32-year existence, the Islamic Republic has had an uneasy relationship with its home-grown film industry.

He says using the media is one way to get out Islamic teaching and values to the general population.

Iran claims the rodents were being used by western powers in an attempt to undermine the islamic republic.

It was the US's most staunch allies in the region against the Islamic fundamentalist who were embattled, which made the decision difficult.

The militant group Islamic Jihad said one of its members was killed on the ground while on a mission to attack an Israeli patrol.

Palestinian analyst Wadia Abu Nasser says Mr. Abbas is not strong enough to take on the powerful Islamic militant group, Hamas.

Jihadist groups (sometimes claiming to be "al-Qaeda in the Sinai peninsula" ) have called for the creation of an Islamic emirate.

Bush was to meet mainstream Islamic leaders later before leaving Wednesday afternoon for Canberra, the final stop on his Asian tour.

China being a friendly nation to the Islamic republic, it is only normal for Iran to open it airspace to Chinese warplanes.

The body of an Islamic Jihad militant, who was killed during Israeli air strikes, is lifted up by mourners during his funeral in Gaza City.

Whenever it was during the Cartage times or during Islamic Dynamics times, Tunisia was the country with significance.

The ultra-conservative Islamic state has said it has the right to stop women revealing 'tempting' eyes in public.

We are talking about an increase in Islamic extremism to which any dissent is not tolerated.

Maybe the central ex-soviet republics in the whole area right up to the caspian sea would be more like mongolia or tibet instead of islamic.

Among Arabs secular nationalism is meanwhile waning in the face of a powerful Islamic revival through the region.

In a statement posted on a website often used by militants, the Islamic State of Iraq said "martyrs . . . targeted the dens of infidelity" .

The Marie -Antoinette Breguet is due to be returned to display at the L. A. Meyer Museum for Islamic Art this summer .

The system of learning that gave rise to the Sinophone Islamic books is known as jing tang jiao yu, or Sinophone Islamic learning.

This glossary from the class offers explanations of terms that might be unfamiliar to students new to the study of the Islamic world.

His hope was that Muslims, unified by the battle, would create a single, true Islamic state.

It said the man was guilty of harming the women but noted that Islamic codes allow for "discipline' if no marks are left. "

Current is necessary to in-depth study of these new situations and new problems, do a better job in the work of Islamic culture patriots.

The letters showed what listeners are aching to hear most is music, banned as un-Islamic by the Taliban.

It has also, as we have been reminded recently, become a rallying cry in the escalating tension between the Islamic world and the west.

Islamic cuisine which uses mainly beef and mutton has an important place in Beijing cuisine.

Raised in a wealthy, influential, Islamic African family, Midnight enjoys a life of comfort, confidence, and protection.

But you know, evil exists today. Like, well, Islamic terrorism.

Islamic terrorism had won not on its own terms, but with the unified support of the United Nations standing behind it.

But unless the Islamic republic changes directions soon, all of that history and potential could be squandered.

Pray for a powerful move of God in Algeria, and members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb will cease to be in operation.

It was built after defeating Islamic forces in 1230, which had conquered Mallorca before.

His only other address was an Israeli prison, where he served time for being a leader of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.

A surgeon by profession, al-Zawahri, like bin Laden, gave up a life of privilege to violently promote a puritanical Islamic ideal.

The failure (so far) of the Norwegian authorities to expel Mullah Krekar, a fractious Islamic cleric, has caused agitation.

Relations between the United States and Pakistan have hit some bumpy spots over efforts to curb terrorist acts by Islamic extremists.

"Nobody's questioning the fact that he was the mentor of Zawahiri and the ideologue of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. "

With 60% of Muslims living in poverty, Islamic banking is of little benefit to the general population.

Remittances in hard currency funnelled through hawala (Islamic word-of-mouth banks) may have more to do with it.

But over the next two decades Islamic banking prospered, driven by a revival of faith following the Iranian revolution in 1979.

To have lost Mr Ahmadinejad to a liberal "plot" would, they judged, have imperilled the Islamic Republic which succours them all.

Initially, President Obama stayed out of the controversy over the Islamic center.

The abovementioned sciences are meant to help and enable the person to issue fatwas in accordance with the principles of Islamic teachings.

Islamic history bears witness to the fact that women have made unique contributions in various scholarly and scientific fields.

In a rational world China would not stir up Japanophobia and rich Saudis would not help Islamic extremists abroad.

The U. S. contacts with the Islamic party could be unsettling to Israel and Arab states seen as threatened by Islamic militancy.

These were followed by the establishment of an "international" caliphate rule and eventually by a steep decline in Arab-Islamic power.

The origins of this Arabic word date back to the ninth century, when an Islamic sect was led to overthrow the Suni Muslims.

Islamic bonds, known as sukuk, and renminbi-denominated bonds are in high demand among investors due to their relatively small supply.

Busloads of devout Muslims from around the country swelled the crowd and chanted for the establishment of Islamic Sharia law in Egypt.

"Khomeini used them all" she said of the grand ayatollah who led the 1979 Islamic revolution.

El Para was proof that "terrorism" was far from eradicated in Algeria and that Islamic militancy now linked the Maghreb and Sahel.

Like any other ruler, he had two enemies: internal disorder or treason and external Islamic agressors threatening his country.

Perhaps most interesting to contemporary readers is Lane's chapter on the golden age of Islamic civilization.

But his efforts were almost pointless; Heap was taking on the Islamic Republic in a game of one on one, and he was no match.

This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

For years, Pakistan has developed a typical victim of Islamic extremism with its unique geopolitical and historical factors.

That is because he started off in piecemeal fashion by trying to ease bans on the Islamic headscarf in government offices and universities.

Perhaps people living in the repressive atmosphere that prevails in much of the Islamic world can be forgiven if their courage falters.

I can remember when I first went out in my hijab (Islamic dress), how people were staring at me and calling out things like, "You bomber! "

Ihsan, meaning "to do beautiful things, " is one of the three dimensions of the Islamic religion (Ara. ad-din): islam, iman and ihsan.

Even in 1990, Coll writes, he saw himself as "an international Islamic guerrilla leader who worked in service of his king. "

Adam Gadahn, the American member of al-Qaeda, is threatening foreign diplomats and embassies across the Islamic world.

That is because 'terrorism' is but a tactic -- a means to an end, which in al-Qaida's case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate.

The dish: As a province with a large Islamic population, Qinghai contains a great variety of halal food.

The blogger says members of Hamas were dancing around a dead body of a Fatah member, and that Islamic Republic' TV is silent on it.

More than 100 leading religious clerics called the attempt to restrict the age of marriage "un-Islamic" .

In a country that has been at war for three decades, the next generation of Islamic fighters is not hard to find.

But finally, he found in the Islamic faith all the kind of disciplined life he has always craved for.

has a long history, Manama Islamic Chronicle mentioned can be traced back to at least 1345.

Islamic scholars, however, challenged U. S. assertions that a burial at sea was an appropriate fate for a Muslim who had died on land.

In world banking, the total share of Islamic finance is less than one percent.

Thousands of women were arrested or intimidated because they did not adhere precisely to Islamic dress code on the streets.

Mr. Embrika considers it his religious duty to give even the enemy a proper Islamic burial.

As the name suggests, Islamic finance is first and foremost about religious identity.

We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.

Women in some Islamic countries do not vote becausethey have no right to.

What we have been witnessing is nothing short of a civil war in the Arab-Islamic world.

What followed was a gradual closing-down of possibilities as the Islamic establishment took political control.

This failed to be adopted because the Organisation of the Islamic Conference wanted to except those resisting "foreign occupation" .

Today, Iranians are registering their discontent with the system of Islamic government as a whole.

Most recently, the first Islamic bond was also issued by an American oil company.

At the other extreme are religious extremists who interpret religion so rigidly that they fail to be true to Islamic ideals.

Despite the widespread violence in Afghanistan by the Taliban and other Islamic militants, Percovich said he doesn't feel threatened.

The stocks were chosen with the help of a Mumbai-based Islamic finance company, Taqwa Advisory and Shariah Investment Solutions.

in Islamic law, in order for a marriage to be valid, the female must approve of the contract.

He turned his bank's Islamic-finance division into a stand-alone institution, then became chief executive of Bahrain Islamic Bank in 2002.

Bahrain is an Islamic law country, and its legal system is a very special type in the Gulf and the whole Arabic world.

Those arrested are believed to be connected to the al-Qaida-linked group Islamic State of Iraq.

Other opportunities for study within the department are also available through the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.

The "Islamic democracy" offered by Mr Khatami failed to address their desire for a freer society.

On Monday, a prominent Islamic cleric who had been critical of the sect was killed by a gunman on a motorbike.

In August, the leader of a group calling itself the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) urged Muslims to attack Chinese interests worldwide.

The owner of the Farvardin Minaret Making Workshop says that minaret-making is a popular profession because Ir an is an Islamic country.

Sukuk refers to a financial instrument that complies with Islamic investment principles, which prohibit interest payments.

Hundreds of Islamic hard-liners protested near the court on Monday, saying the sentence wasn't harsh enough.

She chose a politically dangerous topic, which might prevent her from returning to Iran for as long as the Islamic government is in power.

The Islamic identity is the essential condition, though not the sufficient one, for the formation of Muslim nationalism.

There were powerful countries to the east and west of the Soviet Union, and in the south was the vast and populated Islamic world.

The orders were handed out as Pakistan's new government stepped up talks designed to turn back a rising tide of Islamic militancy.

It said that bank was an active participant in the Islamic Republic's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.

Afghanistan was an Islamic country and also the path to the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.

France's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved a bill that would outlaw the wearing in public of the face-covering Islamic veil.

This, as Iranian leaders have made clear, is the case with the Islamic Republic and world order; it is the system that must go.

The court's judgment relies on hitherto unused Islamic provisions of the constitution to declare the NRO "immoral" .

The United States has also sanctioned Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard, which controls the nuclear development program.

Najib Razak, the deputy prime minister, provoked an outcry after he declared Malaysia to be an Islamic state.

It has been a source of inspiration for many Islamic movements.

For Hamas, Islamic Jihad and others, the problem is not so much Israel's presence in the West Bank; it is Israel's presence.

To be fair, many voices, Western and Eastern, Islamic and Christian, have spoken out against the violence.

But Mullah Omar's Taliban has adopted the rhetoric of a national liberation struggle, to oust foreign forces and restore Islamic rule.

And it is not as if the Islamic buildings are any better cared for than the king's palaces.

A mosque watchdog was established, and a touring Islamic roadshow provided a platform for more liberal scholars.

An American member of al-Qaida is calling on Pakistanis to put aside their differences and establish an Islamic state.

An American member of al-Qaeda is calling on Pakistanis to put aside their differences and establish an Islamic state.

The architectural design is just but amazing as it makes use of Persian, Indian as well as Islamic architecture in its design.

Lao She's Islamic complex is an order process when he communicate with the muslims get deeper and deeper.

It has even sought to forge closer diplomatic ties with the still more problematic Islamic republic of Iran, much to America's annoyance.

And like the Communists, the followers of violent Islamic radicalism are doomed to fail.

At the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley in Southern California, worshippers meet in an industrial warehouse.

Thousands of Christians are leaving the region each year, some due to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Alcohol cannot be sold at certain times, in deference to Islamic hardliners, but is available nevertheless.

On a separate issue, President Obama this week faced strong criticism in the debate over a proposed Islamic center in New York.

The emphasis on horseback operations is believed to signify a desire to emulate the warfare of the period of the Islamic conquests.

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Their concern is that the training of scholars essential for the Islamic banks' supervision may not be able to keep pace.

But the question now is whether "containment" is also the right metaphor for Afghanistan, and for the threat of Islamic extremism.

Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking and violence against U. S. troops and civilians.

The United States and the Organization of the Islamic Conference have teamed up on a new effort to eradicate polio.

It seems that European & Islamic Sword is not so concerned. Where's the warrior spirit? If no one ups, I won't post in future.

Islamic bonds can be structured in different ways, but a major idea is shared profit and loss.