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And opposition parties and Islamists seem to be taking over their previously non-party and mainly secular movement.

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

"Cultural icons have been used as pawns in the political game between the state and the Islamists, " she says.

The Islamists did not play a role in Tunisia and in Egypt the course of events seems to have taken the Muslim Brotherhood by surprise.

If Joey were able to assert his manhood in our own culture, we would not lose him to Shariah-wielding Islamists.

Her words carried the ring of deliberate provocation, challenging the Islamists to put a fatwa on her and raise a sword to behead her.

The Islamists are now trying to organize as political parties within a pluralistic system.

You are right to say that there cannot be any democracy in the Arab world without the participation of the Islamists.

The noise and the size of the crowd was impressive, but it's still not clear precisely how much support Islamists have in Egypt as a whole.

He said his father's forces would align with radical Islamists against the rebels: "Libya will look like Saudi Arabia, like Iran. So what? "

Islamists who are not violent, like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, should be able to contest free elections.

By contrast, in Lahore on Sunday, I was caught up in a huge crowd of Islamists celebrating noisily the death of the hated liberal.

The Islamists did not merely miss the boat: they didn't even see it arrive.

East of Aden, Islamists control the town of Zinjibar, where at least 50 people have been killed in the past few days.

Before he was abducted Italian investigators had been tapping the Muslim cleric's phone calls over alleged links with Islamists.

However, if Western fears of the Islamists did indeed hamstring the aid effort, they might be partially self-fulfilling.

Ethiopiabegan withdrawing its troops from Somalia two years after invading it in response to a perceived threat from militant Islamists.

He co-operated with Islamists but let the British and Americans have military bases on his soil.

the more moderate Islamists from the Courts Union must be brought in, even if the harder-line affiliates of al-Qaeda cannot be.

Young Islamists have been part of these revolts, but they have not been instigators or leaders.

In a world suddenly teeming with dangerous Islamists, he was now far from the worst.

Yet Islamists seem to struggle to raise their support much above 20% of the electorate.

The radical Islamists and rogue states who wish America harm are no more benevolent when it comes to the rest of the civilised world.

And a central dogma of the Islamists is that Israel is an implant that must be violently resisted and eventually destroyed.

Protests continued in Syria, where the authorities blamed the rising violence on an "armed insurrection" by extreme Islamists.

He does not accept, for instance, that the successes of the Islamists in recent elections in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco are cause for alarm.

CENTRAL ASIA'S militant Islamists have been popping up in some unusual places.

Pakistan never was and never would be an ally. It is an opportunist whose sympathies lie with the Islamists.

Islamists have ousted the state in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and parts of the North West Frontier Province.

This week, in response to Ethiopia's invasion, some Islamists made precisely such a call for jihad.

If the elections go ahead, most observers predict the Islamists will emerge as the dominant bloc in a civilian-coalition government.

Which all goes to suggest that the Islamists may indeed be intent on bringing peace and prosperity to a country desperately in need of both.

Yet it is afraid of offending conservative opinion by cracking down on the Islamists. It also fears the disorder this might cause.

After sitting out a three-month long wave of protests, Jordan's Islamists have finally taken to the streets.

No one can be certain that if Islamists gain power they will give it up at the ballot box, but secular rulers sometimes fail that test.

Today, radical Islamists are the last holdout against these powerful forces of modernity.

They were politically radical, mostly self-described leftists and anti-imperialists, as well as Islamists.

The Islamists are not the only local rulers ambivalent about the onset of famine.

Within weeks of being driven out, the Islamists launched an insurgency that has killed thousands of civilians.

A third of the Palestinian government, led by the Islamists of Hamas, has been put behind bars , while another third is in hiding.

Some former recipients of Hamas charities admit they have switched allegiance since the Islamists' social services have run dry.

The Islamists, untrained and ill-disciplined with mostly small arms, are no match for one of Africa's biggest and best-armed forces.

Mali, for instance, was accused of feebleness when it freed some Islamists earlier this year in exchange for a French hostage.

The Palestinians had a fair election in 2006 but the winners, the Islamists of Hamas, were not allowed to govern.

The final results will not be known before Tuesday, but early estimates suggest an impressive showing for the Islamists.

In May, insurgents launched a renewed offensive against the new unity government, made up of Islamists and secular politicians.

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

The defining struggle in Muslim-majority countries will not be between U. S. -supported dictators and radical Islamists.

The head of the intelligence agency, Jakob Scharf, described the suspects as "militant Islamists. "

Moreover, the Islamists have achieved a prisoner exchange with Israel of a magnitude which defied the mild Mr Abbas.

Every election in Pakistan's history shows the Islamists are a small minority and the more-secular parties are the majority.

Islamists in both Tunisia and Egypt may soon emerge as leading political actors. So far, however, they have taken a back seat.

Besides, the pirates could yet prove to be odd allies in stopping the Islamists from spreading their jihadist net.

That is one reason why Somalia's new prime minister, Nur Adde Hussein, has been trying to woo more mainstream Islamists.

The idea of letting Islamists, some of them anti-democratic, contest elections understandably makes people nervous.

It is not the Islamists but the moderate mainstream that has lost faith in him.

Parliamentarians and others have been drifting from Baidoa to Mogadishu, the capital, where they are welcomed by the Islamists.

Hamza spoke of the recent demonstrations in Tunisia by hard-line Islamists against unveiled women and against theatre groups and actors.

Drug and security specialists say the Islamists are just one of several groups involved.

Predictably, the prize has left Islamists fuming, with several filing lawsuits demanding that it be rescinded.

These most radical Islamists, along with Osama bin Laden, also reject that great product of the Enlightenment and modernity: democracy.

The region has suffered a lot as a result of attempts to exclude Islamists and deny them a role in the public sphere.

The Islamists were still holding about a third of the city when they suddenly withdrew overnight.

Islamists, who won Tunisia's recent elections, are now often the target of his pen.

Some Islamic scholars fear that a more open attitude could also make it easier for radical Islamists to gain a foothold in France.

Hamas's overthrow of the more secular Fatah organization in Gaza in 2007 is part of a regionwide civil war between Islamists and modernists.

And it came closer, through the mediation of Egypt, to a ceasefire with the Islamists of Hamas, who control the Gaza Strip.

There can be no proper government in Somalia without the co-operation of the strongest force, the Islamists.

Some observers are worried about the presence of radical Islamists among the rebels.

No one really has a clue what the Islamists are likely to get in either country in their first completely free elections.

Even so, the current government of Iraq, led by prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, is mostly made up of pro-Iranian Shiite Islamists.

Liberals who hate the dictatorship of Bashar Assad in Syria fear that Islamists will emerge as the chief opposition to him.

But now that Palestinian politics are dominated by the Islamists of Hamas, the business of daily life has become more complicated.

And why should authoritarian regimes in the Middle East embrace democratisation when it might mean handing power to Islamists?

Another is to intervene, overthrow the Islamists and install a sympathetic government.

Benghazi's new council includes both Islamists and westernised merchants, and promises elections within six months.

Preventing moderate Islamists from gaining power at the ballot box only encourages extreme ones to seek it by violence.

The Islamists failed to capture a single seat in November's rigged parliamentary elections.

Ms Dridi, the constitutional lawyer, is unconvinced: "When the state is not involved in religion, the field is free for the Islamists. "

Although Mr Saleh has exaggerated the al-Qaeda threat, extreme Islamists are indeed steadily gaining more room for manoeuvre.

Somalia's leonine president, Abdullahi Yusuf, may be undermining Mr Adde's efforts by refusing to compromise with even milder Islamists.

The Islamists believed they had done everything required to satisfy the law and become a legal party.

The Ethiopians soon withdrew, perhaps to positions in the desert. But the reaction from the Islamists in Mogadishu was immediate and fierce.

The Islamists grumbled when an American-trained secular professor was given the education portfolio on the new council.

THE SECRET IN PLAIN SIGHT: Zombies are a metaphor for violent militant, radical Islamists who want to take over the world.

Islamists there, including former members of groups linked to al-Qaeda, have shown a willingness to accommodate secular views.

Many of the other fish, moreover, are likely to be rival Islamists.

Most of today's Islamists in Benghazi look to the West for help in rebuilding civil institutions, after decades of military rule.

In last November's legislative poll, blatant rigging ensured the Islamists received not a single assembly seat.

Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.

Yet unlike some Islamists (but like Turkey's Tarikat Sufi Islamic fraternities), he disavowed all forms of violence.

Police violence is not restricted to the fight with the Islamists, either.

So the Islamists have regrouped and war threatens to engulf the city again, perhaps infecting the whole region.

In Bangladesh police arrested more than 600 Islamists, after protests demanding the release of radical party leaders turned violent.

Islamists, who are expected to do well in the forthcoming elections, were particularly indignant.

Indeed, right now the authoritarians look more likely to strangle Egypt's democracy than the Islamists do.

But the test case will be Turkey, a secular state currently ruled by Islamists whose progress is being watched with nervous attention.

In the Arab world, too, there has been mounting tension between Islamists and secularists, who feel anxious about Islamic groups.

Dozens of people have died in Northern Nigeria where militant Islamists have attacked police stations and government buildings.

"The Islamists hold most of the trump cards, " says Henry Smith of Control Risks, a consultancy.

The ultimate political goal of Islamists is to set up Islamic countries based on the Koran, the Prophet's Sunna and the Islamic law.

But the Islamists and secular liberals, with the shared aim of dishing the dictator, have struck up an alliance.

Islamists will play a greater role in society and government, as they do in Turkey.

This latest death, so soon after Osama bin Laden's, is another blow to the Islamists who control south Somalia.

In all these countries, Islamists are likely to emerge with the greatest influence.

In Libya the Islamists may also be gaining ground.

It is alarmed by the growing influence of radical Islamists in Pakistan, and the weakening influence of liberals.

America is at war with radical Islamists.

Radical Turkish Islamists have long tried to stir up anti-Semitism.

Not until last year did the Islamists feel ready to challenge Fatah in parliamentary elections.

A drawn-out stalemate between the Islamists and the generals loomed.

Fourth, the Islamists will not on their own win outright majorities in the new parliaments.

Might Mr Netanyahu actually prefer to do business with Islamists?

So Egypt's President Mubarak was understood as our bulwark against crazed Islamists.

In Egypt, some Islamists are blaming women's behavior for sexual harassment and attacks.

Unlike Egypt, I do not have to fear the army, nor Islamists high jacking our secular democracy.

The council has lawyers galore but only two businessmen, a handful of military men, and few Islamists.

Violent Islamists cannot lord it over the Middle East.

The Islamists have become "part of the furniture" , as Ms Pargeter puts it; besides, there are few credible alternatives.

The Islamists' aim of imposing Islamic order on one of the world's most anarchic states seemed within sight.

The Islamists do not want to take power, alone; better to share the blame.

We promote democracy, and watch Islamists gain power from Iraq to Palestine.

He wants to reaffirm secular principles to send a message to hard-line Islamists.

The strength of the Islamists is growing, and will grow further.

If the army fails to resume control, the Islamists could pour into Aden itself.

One man joked about how we were drinking beer under the very beards of Islamists.

Overall, 21 incumbents lost their seats, among them several prominent Sunni Islamists.

But while that puts the moderate mainstream on par with the Islamists in communications terms, we should not get carried away.

There is a good chance that, as in Tunisia, Islamists will play by democratic rules, and influence but not dominate the polity.

While vainly helping Somalia's Islamists, Eritrea has shown it can also help make peace if it wants to.

Local residents fled as the Casbah became a no-man's land, occupied by the Islamists.

If a democratic election in Syria brought Islamists to power, life would surely get worse for Syria's Christians.

The real question is, can there be meaningful democracy with the Islamists?

The Islamists could not take their societies back 1, 400 years even if the rest of the world would let them.

Another problem for the Islamists is that they, too, are prey to troubling ideological doubts.

Who are the Somali Islamists and what do they want?

The greater likelihood is that in a war the Islamists would fight asymmetrically , with guerrilla tactics.

But they fear that if they challenge the jihadists militarily, the inevitable killing of civilians will make the Islamists more popular.

But Islamists participate in elections in countries such as Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia where democracy has taken hold.

The opposition claims AK will use the changes to pack the courts with Islamists, paving the way to religious rule.

The government has blamed the unrest on armed groups, Islamists and foreign agitators.

To give Islamists their head is indeed a risk.

Algeria's civil war in the 1990s remains a horrible warning against depriving Islamists of power they have rightfully won.

According to the Islamists, each of those leaders put 30, 000 of their members in prison at one time or another. Many were tortured.

He is also taking a risk by blaming conservative Sunnis for the recent troubles, linking them to militant Islamists such as al-Qaeda.

According to the report, a grand total of one (1) attack was conducted by Islamists.

In order to secure a majority, he argues, the Islamists need to form alliances with secular movements.

A 28-year-old former Islamist, Walide Zeghina, was sentenced along with another 53 Islamists who are on the run.

Ginsburg says that interpretation will be done by more and more Islamist judges if the Islamists control the future government, as expected.

Few of Morocco's protesters, who include secular leftists and Islamists, want to oust King Muhammad VI, who is generally liked.

More than 10, 000 Islamists and other opponents went to Ben Ali's prisons in the 1990s.

Or it might open the way to more serious talks with the milder Islamists and help isolate the jihadists, wherever they may be hiding.

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