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"I would not overstate this threat, " he said. "It is not as significant as the global threat of Islamist extremism, but it is real. "

But he took a tough line on the worsening Islamist insurgency in the north Caucasus, promising to "exterminate the bandits" .

Police have said the attacks do not appear to be linked to Islamist terrorism but they are linking the two incidents.

In a way, Hamas may be evolving into a client (mini)state of a more Islamist-oriented Egypt.

Forget the constitution and all that guff about a shining city on the hill; the founding fathers did not have to face Islamist jihadis.

Incidents to date cannot be described as yet adding up to a significant home-grown Islamist terrorist problem in the United States.

The Islamist leadership seems to have little control over the wilder jihadist groups, and is itself hardening on human rights.

The assassination of a secular opposition leader is forcing an Islamist-led government to give ground. But how much?

Nasser was not an Islamist: he was a secular pan-Arabist socialist, which in the 1950s seemed to put him on history's cutting edge.

This has prompted the militants to demand a more extreme form of Islamist rule and for sharia to be extended to the whole of Nigeria.

He said al-Nahda had invited a hard-line Islamist singer to one of its political meetings.

Only a few Islamist bloggers talked about his case while most other bloggers, seemed to ignore his case. Probably because he was a cleric.

Somalia's interim government is trying to assert authority in the city which it seized from fleeing Islamist fighters late last Month.

It was a utopian dream, but one can't deny the genuinely utopian aspect of what was so much more than a hardline Islamist takeover.

Finally, along the road near the university, Qaddafi's forces were stopped by an army of shabab, local men, and Islamist fighters.

"I told Basayev that Dagestan was not ready for jihad, but he did not listen, " says Mr Magomedov, the Islamist leader.

That the terrorist seems to have been a Norwegian anti-Islamist instead should give us all pause.

The multicultural tensions that were so acute in 2005 and 2006, after the Islamist attacks in London, seem to have abated.

He made his name as an Islamist student leader in the 1970s and was even jailed under the draconian Internal Security Act.

Nahda (Awakening), Tunisia's main Islamist group, is the only party big enough to field male and female candidates in all constituencies.

An ill-timed piece of publicity could bring enraged Islamist activists banging down the door.

Protesters declined the offer, which was made to the head of an Islamist party that had once been a partner in Mr Saleh's government.

Israel would then find itself "sharing" Jerusalem with an Islamist government, turning the city into a war zone.

Add in a couple of fringe Islamist parties and you could be looking at an Islamist majority in Egypt's first parliament.

Indeed, the biggest dangers Russia poses to the West may be as an incubator of assorted diseases and of Islamist extremism.

There was no claim of responsibility for the incident from either Islamist group.

Islamist fighters have made steady advances against forces controlled by an alliance of secular Somali warlords.

Mr. Jalil portrays himself as an honest broker interested in the good of the nation and a moderate Islamist in the mold of Turkish leaders.

Just before the visit, at least 40 people died in three suicide attacks in different parts of the country, blamed on Islamist extremists.

And this summer, Germany found that it, too, is not entirely safe from Islamist terrorism, despite its opposition to the war in Iraq.

U. S. and Iraqi officials said the Mosul and Baghdad bombings bore the hallmarks of Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.

Events in Afghanistan, along with the Iranian revolution, signaled the beginning of the global Islamist revolution.

He seems to want to continue to squeeze the Gaza Strip until its elected government, run by the Islamist movement, Hamas, is toppled.

Soon after, Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian novelist and Nobel Laureate, was stabbed by an Islamist who considered his books blasphemous.

Police in northern Nigeria say suspected members of a radical Islamist group have killed three policemen and a civilian.

Eastern Libya, the anti-Qaddafi rebels' stronghold, has long been a hotbed of Islamist activism.

Such connections raise the spectre of a concerted Islamist threat against Nigeria, a close ally of America and a large oil exporter.

Karman, 32, an Islamist journalist dubbed the "Mother of the Revolution, " has been a key figure in protests in the capital Sanaa this year.

Up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamist militants, a leaked UN report says.

Now I should know, because for 13 years of my life, I was involved in an extreme Islamist organization.

Islamist extremism and Islam are not the same thing, he said.

Experts worry that the strengthening Islamist militant movements in Central Asian countries could begin to target the supply lines as well.

Reports emerged this year that the U. S. -backed Somali government enlisted child soldiers in their fight against rebel Islamist fighters.

Islamist insurgents have attacked towns and villages across the country, including some close to the border with Kenya.

I did not call him a terrorist. I am not a cultured person and I don't even know what as Islamist terrorist is.

The "long divergence" also helps to explain some of the Islamist rage against capitalism.

His country's rich hydrocarbon deposits and its role in the fight against Islamist terrorism may also be considerations.

Islamist insurgents and pro-government forces in Somalia are fighting in an area near the presidential palace in the capital, Mogadishu.

Moreover, pluralist politics and a decentralization of power have helped bring Islamist politics into the mainstream.

The Islamist party, Refah, led by Necmetin Erbakan came into power in June 1996, which aroused considerable concern in the United States.

Learning from India's decades-long experience combating Islamist violence in the region will strengthen U. S. efforts to do so as well.

The statement did not mention Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza.

But the move came as Algeria plunged into a bloody civil war, pitting the country's military-backed government against Islamist radicals.

Hand said the attack marks a new departure for Islamist terrorists in Algeria.

A senior commander of the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab, has been shot dead at close range as he left a mosque in the city of Kismayo.

The struggle against extreme Islamist terrorism is not a "clash of civilisations" but a civil war within Islam.

The rest of the country is home to a radical Islamist insurgency, as well as to pirate fleets that prey on international shipping.

A more democratic Turkey is today also a more Islamist Turkey, which is now refusing to take the American line on either Israel or Iran.

They were probably organised by the same militants, or by their Islamist allies along the border with Afghanistan.

He dismissed Western concerns that the Islamist group might use the situation to its advantage and take over the country.

Egyptians voted in the first parliamentary elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak; Islamist parties were the big winners.

Concealed in the courtyard of his home, a street vendor who has joined the Islamist militia called al Shabaab shows off his gun.

Syrian officials yesterday suggested they believed the attack was the responsibility of Islamist militants.

Indeed his Islamist movement won the only general election, in 2006, that it has contested.

Troops deployed across the country ahead of the elections scheduled for late this month, tightening security amid Islamist threats.

Until now, Hamas has held the Islamist franchise in Gaza, fending off al-Qaida attempts to come on to its turf.

Ethiopia sent troops to Somalia in December to help the temporary government push an opposition its Islamist movement from power.

It has yet to be determined whether Iraq will be Islamist, federal or centralized in character and constitution.

They've blamed Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect that has for the last two years carried out numerous attacks mainly in northern Nigeria.

Once again Egypt will be left to choose between military autocracy and a stealthy electoral coup by the Islamist Muslim Brothers.

Close to 200 Nigerian troops are due to arrive in Mali to help fight Islamist insurgents in the country's north.

Gone are the tired rants of his predecessor about a looming Islamist takeover.

As for Islamist terrorists, he said their ideas are bankrupt.

Labour women, intolerant of Islamist views on gender, make up a disproportionate chunk of those demanding change.

Pakistan has engaged in its own 'war on terror' against Islamist militants in the northwest part of the country.

The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab says it has taken control of the southern town of Afmadow without any resistance from rival militants.

The Israelis stress that Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group, is as much the West's enemy as it is Israel's.

The police chief in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, was killed by Islamist militias fighting against the fragile government.

With a modest outlay here, the Pentagon has dealt a blow to Islamist radicals and sharpened the skills of an ally.

Earlier, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed accompanied AU peacekeepers and government troops as they battled Islamist insurgents.

Meanwhile, Islamist militias no longer appear to be restraining pirates from the east coast.

Some of the delegates may be sympathizers with the Taliban, although members of the hardline Islamist group were not invited.

when they blocked a democratically elected Islamist government and continued forcibly to parade themselves as guardians of a secular order.

Acceding to crowd pressure, he has quickly reversed a two-decade ban on Tunisia's main Islamist party, and freed the last of its prisoners.

The full tape is yet to be released by an Islamist Web site.

It does not have much oil and has no Islamist movement waiting to assume power.

Mr El Himma founded an anti-Islamist group, the Movement of All Democrats, which he then used as a springboard to create PAM.

It will also alarm western powers that have been applying pressure on Islamabad to deal with the Islamist threat.

The Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, a powerful opposition group whose members are often rounded up by Egyptian police, condemned the attacks.

Reducing poverty and offering economic opportunity would also do much to ease the fight against Islamist extremism.

Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents say.

"The PA has ended the public existence of Hamas, " says a former finance minister of the brief Islamist government.

In March Islamist and other rivals of Hamas, out to spoil the movement's efforts, upped the number of rockets fired at Israel.

It was only this month, after all, when Tunisia held fair and free and peaceful elections, in which a moderate Islamist party came first.

The Yemeni people are far from a united group, divided as they are by tribal, political, military and Islamist loyalties.

The bloodshed was linked to a planned offensive by the army against Islamist militants in the tribal area of South Waziristan.

Nigerian police blame the raids in the town of Gombi on Islamist militants, who've been linked with a wave of violence in the region.

The BBC has condemned the conviction of its reporter in Tajikistan on a charge of assisting a banned Islamist organisation.

Scheme: Throughout the Middle East, mass arrests are a popular strategy for suppressing Islamist movements.

Some missiles fired from American submarines off the Somali coast have indeed killed Islamist insurgent leaders.

Members of a Nigerian Islamist radical sect have fled the northern city of Maiduguri after the military overran their enclave, reports say.

The U. S. military is evacuating American and other foreign hostages held by Islamist militants at a gas complex in Algeria.

Talking to Islamist rulers may be an unpalatable choice. But it is the least bad one.

Militant Islamists in Yemen are by no means limited to AQAP, though it is the most ideologically extreme of the Islamist groups.

The people launching the rockets appear to be a mixture of hardliners within Hamas and assorted Islamist radicals from other movements.

The reasons lie in Pakistan's tortured relations with America, with Islamist extremism and with India.

As our briefing explains, indiscriminate persecution of Islamist fundamentalists has only strengthened their cause, especially in Dagestan.

The plan was for Ethiopia to squash an Islamist movement and reinstate a Somali government that had lost control of most of its territory.

They note that the youth camp would be an unusual target for Islamist terrorists.

Its better-educated people have no love for the Islamist hooligans in their midst.

In February an Islamist mob lynched some members of the small Ahmadiyah sect, regarded by some orthodox Muslims as apostates, killing four.

Hamas says it has restored order in southern Gaza after crushing an uprising by a radical Islamist group.

Mr Blair has given warning that the threat from home-grown Islamist terrorism will last for a generation.

In the east and in Tripoli, some of the largest, best-equipped brigades are associated with Islamist groups now forming political parties.

The Indian Mujahideen, an Islamist group thought to be linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terrorist outfit, claimed responsibility.

Attempts to integrate Hamas and other Islamist groups into the PLO would have to reconcile deep differences over strategy toward Israel.

An army column in Tajikistan was ambushed by a party of Islamist militants, including fighters from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Chechnya.

Saudi Arabia is the biggest source of funds for Islamist extremists. Nicaragua is a corrupt country with an "unhinged" president.

Over the past few weeks the Islamist militias have captured the southern port of Kismayo and several towns near the Kenyan border.

The dead included a son of a former foreign minister of Hamas, the Islamist group that seized the strip last summer.

We'll definitely see growth in Islamic banking because there is a strong Islamist element to Libyan society and politics.

Worse, they warn, is the potential for an alliance between cash-rich traffickers and power-hungry Islamist radicals.

The revolution kinship Iran helped stir the belief among Sunni extremists elsewhere that Islamist rule could be recreated in modern times.

It provided an excuse for cracking down on their Islamist opponents.

American Security sources say US Special Forces believed they've killed a leading Islamist militant in a raid in Southern Somalia.

Gunmen have shot dead three policemen in Indonesia, in an attack officials linked to Islamist militants.

Kull recommends that the Obama Administration change its stance towards nonviolent moderate Islamist parties.

Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza, would be the likely beneficiary.

Like Tunisia, Egypt is flirting with a democratic revolution, not an Islamist takeover.

more than in any single Islamist terror attack since the bombing of a Bali nightclub in 2002.

For the past two years, Pakistani security forces have engaged in bitter fighting to rid the area of Islamist militants.

Nevertheless, local commentators have identified Islamist terrorists as possible culprits.

Intelligence officials had worried that the rebels included Islamist politicians and extremist groups.

By comparison with the regimes and the Islamist movements, the secular opposition parties are at a particular disadvantage.

Another cable assesses Turkey's foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu as an "exceptionally dangerous" Islamist influence.

Pakistan's government agreed a truce to end fighting with Islamist insurgents in the Swat valley in its North-West Frontier Province.

Even rigorously Islamist parties needed to moderate their message and employ new information technologies to attract and motivate voters.

Still, if the secular opposition parties are weak, their Islamist rivals are not necessarily as lusty as they seem.

His position encapsulates Hamas's fractured reputation: political resistance movement or militant Islamist fringe?

But were the autocrats right all along? In the wake of revolution, Islamist movements have been gaining ground.

An Islamist-dominated panel has approved Egypt's new draft constitution that must now be voted on in a nationwide referendum.

These Islamist militants were not fighting against Pakistan's embattled government, however, but for it.

The Philippines is fighting communist and Islamist insurgencies . But officials are downplaying the security warnings.

Of the two books, Ms Pargeter's work is the more nuanced and could well become a seminal work on Islamist radicalism in Europe.

The opposition harps on AK's Islamist roots and portrays the election as a fight between secularism and political Islam.

And Islamist attacks are not aimed solely at the Christian minority in a country with the largest Muslim population in the world.

Syria's leaders fear, even more than their neighbours, the local influence of the same Islamist groups they sponsor abroad.

The party has vowed to take tough action against Islamist militants fighting Pakistan's military in the northern border region.

Islamist revolutionary movements were already active by the middle of the 20th century, focused on conditions at home.

Morocco, another American ally, also faces elections next year, with analysts predicting a shoo-in for the Islamist opposition.

Mr Erdogan himself was briefly jailed in 1999 for the offence of reading an Islamist part of a poem in public.

For some, most notably those who had been involved in Islamist groups, ideology played an important and complex role.

More recently Islamist parties have found themselves on the right side of the religious revival sweeping the Arab world.

Sudan may already serve as a conduit for Iranian weapons to Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that Iran backs, and to Hizbullah.

His opposition had been condemned by Islamist political parties.

Investors have been spooked by the country's political volatility and by the Islamist insurgency.

On the fringe of this drama, the country's Islamist parties, which have also supported Mr Musharraf, were obliterated.

The opposition, including the Islamist militia Hizbullah, won a greater share of the popular vote but accepted its defeat.

Europeans are more alarmed than they were about Islamist fundamentalism, for example, and America is waking up to global warming.

They left Mogadishu at night by the lorry load, but the fighters from the Islamist militant group al-Shabab may be back.

The forces of modernization and globalization have inflamed the radical Islamist rebellion and also armed them for the fight.

So far the revolts of 2011 have been strikingly free of Islamist, anti-imperial and even anti-Israeli ideology.

But many of the three-quarters or so of Tunisians who do not consider themselves Islamist mistrust Nahda, many of them deeply.

The same can be said of his rhetoric about Hamas and other Islamist groups.

Armies in the Sahel, that wide stretch of land just south of the Sahara, have increasingly often clashed with Islamist fighters.

In Turkey, much of the secular elite are deeply suspicious of the governing, mildly Islamist AKP party.

The demonstration in Amman came a day after Jordan's main Islamist opposition party met with King Abdullah to discuss its demands.

About two-fifths of local elections have been won by coalitions forged between Islamist and secular parties.

In Turkey, secularists are wrong to try to ban the Islamist-tinged ruling party, AKP (see article).

Meanwhile, more practical, mainstream expressions of Islamist politics have stolen the spotlight.

European Union officials say they will form a team of experts to investigate non-Islamist threats in Scandinavian countries.

Militant Islamist factions of the Muslim Brotherhood were upset by what they regard as interference in Egypt's revolution.

But the financial community knows that London is an important target for Islamist terrorists, and worries about it.

Help has started to trickle in after the Shabab, an Islamist militia, lifted its ban on aid agencies that it once termed anti-Muslim.

The violence is some of worst seen in the north-east since the Islamist sect launched an insurgency against the government in 2009.

Islamist terrorists, fighting an insurgency in north-western Pakistan, had previously threatened to kill Miss Bhutto.

As elsewhere in South Asia, political uncertainty is providing a space in which Islamist extremism can grow.

There exists a deep urge in the West to look inward, to blame ourselves for Islamist terrorism, for some "root cause. "

North Caucasus' Islamist militants Wednesday claimed responsibility for the bombing that derailed a Russian express train killing 27 people.

In the Holy Land local churches are caught between Israeli encroachment on their property and Islamist bids to monopolise Palestinian life.

There are Iranian bloggers who do not support democracy or secularism, and some of them are islamist.

the second, that the west's security would be defined by a generation-long war against Islamist jihadis.

As interior minister, Prince Nayef is credited with Saudi Arabia's relative success at curbing radical Islamist terrorist groups.

The US military has begun airlifting French soldiers and equipment to Mali to support their operation against Islamist militants.

Gushing with Islamist zeal, Pushtun youths rushed to join them as they swept the feuding militias away.

A VOA reporter in GAO says most Islamist militants have fled the city since last week, when French warplanes bombed their positions.

Lebanese security officials say troops have killed the suspected leader of al-Qaeda inspired militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam.

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist faction long headquartered in Damascus, has also quietly distanced itself from Mr Assad.

Official results show that an Islamist party, Ennahda, won more than forty percent of the seats in the assembly.

Mr Karzai has also enlisted as an adviser Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, an Islamist militant who welcomed Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan in 1996.

A previously unknown Islamist group has claimed responsibility for the UN headquarters bombing, according to an Arab television channel.

He too fled three years later as waves of Islamist rebels, formerly armed by the US, hammered at the gates of Kabul.

In other countries, the finger of suspicion for the latest bomb would point immediately to Islamist terrorists.

But locals affirm that Ethiopian as well as Somali troops forced an Islamist retreat from the hilltop town.

The previous president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, was similarly indulgent towards Islamist politicians.

Islamist militiamen have clashed with their secular rivals in a bloody battle for territorial control in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

He was the moderate Islamist who led the Islamic Courts Union before the movement was ousted from power by Ethiopia in late 2006.

Loonier sentences have generally been overturned by the Islamist leadership.

Odd as it seems, the new parity laws are likely mostly to benefit Islamist parties.

Most opinion polls suggest that his mildly Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) will clobber its opponents yet again.

The Russians claim that their country is as vulnerable to Islamist terrorism and radicalism as anywhere in the West.

Responsibility was claimed first by far-right nationalists, then by Islamist fundamentalists.

Some liberals say that more extreme Islamist groups are riding on the more moderate Brothers' coat-tails.

Violence in Afghanistan is at its deadliest since US-led troops toppled the Islamist regime in 2001.

The leading Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, an offshoot of the Brotherhood, has been delighted by Mr Mubarak's fall.

Islamist Egyptians, going back to 1985, have tried to ban the bawdier editions of the Nights.

Javanese mysticism supposedly interested him; certainly he kept Islamist extremism in check.

Even as Islamist terrorism grabs the headlines, more familiar varieties cling stubbornly to existence.

Educated Pakistanis would ask of some Islamist on the rise: "Who on earth can respect a former bus conductor as a leader? "

Sudanese authorities have arrested Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, his family and senior members of his party have said.

Last week one Islamist website promised a "Ramadan gift" from the al-Qaida leader but removed the posting without explanation.

The strategy of using Islamist militants to topple a big power worked well in Afghanistan and was tried again against India in Kashmir.

Pakistan arrested Brigadier Ali Khan for his ties to Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a banned Islamist group.

Israeli aircraft attacked targets in the Gaza Strip linked to the Islamist Palestinian movement, Hamas.

The notion that, somehow, the cause of Islamist terrorism is "us, " the West, persists.

"Before Muammar [Qaddafi], we had no Islamic movement and no Islamist problems, " explains a local judge.

Similarly, he makes little mention of the new Islamist awareness among African Muslims.

Speaking broadly about the region, he expressed concerns that changes in the Middle East could lead Islamist radicals to come to power.

Here, Tunisians celebrate the Islamist Ennahda party's victory last month, the first vote that resulted from the "Arab Spring" revolts.

The Pakistani army moved fast to block local Islamist militants from linking up with Uighur Muslim separatists.

Second, that violence stemming from perennial inter-clan conflicts and more recently Islamist extremism will not derail its work.

Gay activists in Egypt are also wary of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most powerful Islamist group.

The leader of the Islamist rebels, Doku Umarov, has proclaimed himself emir of north Caucasus.

Some see the hand of hardline Islamist groups, which work through local bookshops and mosques to encourage the spread of the niqab.

The army has absolutely no cause to intervene, though if the government is wise it will continue to be cautious about an Islamist agenda.

The attacks were allegedly carried out by the Somali Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, which released a statement claiming responsibility.

Lobbying by countries threatened by Islamist ideas and plots concocted in Britain could also shift the inertia.

But the BBC Middle East correspondent says it's not clear the two Islamist groups will work as a single bloc.

The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has said it's banning a popular method of transferring money via mobile phones in the areas it controls.

Heinsohn has also linked the recent rise of Islamist extremism in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan to an Islamic youth bulge.

Many Yemeni jihadists want to overthrow the country's secular government and replace it with an Islamist caliphate.

The Taliban, an Islamist group dominated by southern Pushtuns, was launched in the early 1990s to end a bitter civil war.

Six people were killed when Islamist militants stormed the Chechen parliament building in Grozny.

The winner will be Hamas [the harder-line Islamist movement that officially rejects Israel's existence and runs the Gaza Strip].

He claims that Hamas, the Islamist movement that still reject's Israel's existence, recently softened its terms.

This underlines the degree of support for Islamist extremism in the nation's security apparatus.

Hundreds of secular and Islamist politicians, lawyers and human-rights activists were locked up.

In Nigeria scores of Christians have died in Islamist bomb attacks, targeting Christmas prayers.

Furthermore, it is no good looking to Turkey's Islamist parties as an example.

But the changes emerging from the so-called Arab Spring go beyond a clash between pro-Western movements and Islamist groups.

Women are not removing their headscarves, and Islamist terrorism hasn't been defeated by any stretch of the imagination.

Mr Yudhoyono at first intended to go along with this proposal, to appease the small but aggressive Islamist minority.

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that refuses formally to accept Israel's existence, was delighted by Mr Biden's embarrassment.

Iraqi Christians repeatedly complain of being targeted by Islamist militants and many have fled the country.

The aim is to create an army that puts Islamist identity above divisive clan loyalties.

He was instrumental, recently, in securing the release of 214 jailed Islamist radicals, most of whom had spent a decade or more behind bars.

The chasm between rich and poor fuels militant gangs in the oil-rich southern delta and Islamist sects in the arid north.

In late 2006, with American encouragement, he sent his army there to topple an Islamist government that had declared a holy war on Ethiopia.

As the influence of Islamist radicals wanes, more girls have shed their veils.

But he has nothing against attacks on the army or security services, if they are engaged in a war against Islamist fundamentalists.