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...socialism," he says. "But we also recognize that the caliphate can only be implemented if people want it." Assem believes Europeans will join the caliphate, but only once they see its advantages. And he admits that day is a long way off. - By STEVE ZWICK/Duisberg THE CRITIC Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 33, the Netherlands Islam is "an extremely backward religion," according to an important new voice on the Dutch political scene. These words clearly echo those of slain right-wing leader Pim Fortuyn, who also used the word backward in reference to Islam. But the speaker today is Ayaan Hirsi Ali...
...wasn't the first time Hirsi Ali fled persecution. The daughter of a leading Somali opposition leader, she was born just a few weeks after the coup by Mohammed Siad Barre in 1969 and was forced into exile with her family when she was 10. She was brought up as a traditional Muslim girl in Kenya, although her father was progressive enough to insist that his daughter receive an education. At 22, confronted with an arranged marriage to a distant cousin in Canada ("I was repelled by his comment that I would bear him six sons," she says), she decided...
...Party (PPP), joined the fray. In a challenge to Musharraf, Bhutto was prepared to cast aside her pro-Western views and instruct her party to back the Islamic religious parties' candidate for Prime Minister, Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Musharraf moved fast. First, his aides released Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari from his hospital jail, where he had been held on charges of corruption, and allowed him to visit his dying mother in Karachi...
...been training. His regimen includes studying a chart of verb conjugations in his promoter's office in Hamburg, where the brothers have lived since 1996. But for all his bookish credentials and his affable, almost shy demeanor, Klitschko is also quite the performer. Like his childhood idol Muhammad Ali - whose star-studded birthday party he attended in January - Klitschko revels in showmanship, appearing at fights wearing Soviet-red Hugo Boss shorts and a malevolent grin. Still, as much as he's enjoying himself, "I don't want to be fighting 10 years from now," he says. "I don't want...
...wants the U.S. forces kicked out of Pakistani military bases. Having Rehman as Prime Minister would have been tough to explain to Washington, so Musharraf moved fast. His political fixers tried to rope in Bhutto by agreeing to drop corruption charges against her and her jailed husband, Asif Ali Zardari. Under the deal, insiders say, Zardari would have been freed and sent into exile, while Bhutto herself would have been allowed back into Pakistan after two years to resume her political career. In the end, it was easier, and politically cheaper, for Musharraf's party to convince several of Bhutto...