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...proof of moot's influence on the Web, one need look no further than the TIME 100 poll results. While Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao got a larger vote total (20,391,818), the runner-up for the title of World's Most Influential Person, Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim, received a mere 47 on the influence scale. Moot denies knowing about any concerted plan by his followers to influence the poll, though TIME.com's technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote. (See the full results here...
...should identify what are the limits of the concessions the government is willing to give," says Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi, a former Finance Minister who is now running against Karzai for President. "Probably they will have some demands of their own, and we might have to be more accepting of those demands, like increased cultural conservatism. But if they say, 'We will not accept a leadership based on elections,' I am not sure we can accept that...
...Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, speaker after Muslim speaker had nothing particularly awful to say about the United States. The Muslims were, in fact, hopeful about, and slightly amazed by, the new American President. Some even wondered aloud what they could do to help him succeed. Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian opposition leader, listed the significant gestures that Obama had made toward the Islamic world, from the President's interview with al-Arabiya television network to the appointment of George Mitchell as Middle East negotiator. Obama had even made reference to "a hadith, which is something not many Islamic leaders...
...group Sisters in Islam, the conference, two years in the planning, is a kick-off to a campaign to enshrine Muslim women's rights within an Islamic framework. "We are here because we believe that Islam upholds the principles of equality and justice," said Musawah's project director Zainah Anwar, in her opening speech at the gala "Feast of Equals," held in a ballroom in a five-star hotel in Kuala Lumpur. "We are here because we believe that there is hope and possibility to reconcile the teachings of Islam with human rights, with women's rights, with democracy...
...PFLP-GC, however, maintained a deliberately ambiguous stance. "It is not the time to say who is responsible; it is time to be united to confront the Israelis," Anwar Raja, PFLP-GC spokesman in Lebanon, told TIME. "We support the launching of rockets on Israel because of the massacre that is occurring in Gaza...