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...rare example of an election in the Arab world which was indisputably free and fair, the Islamist Hamas movement won a shock victory over Fatah, the party which had, in effect, ruled the Palestinian people for a generation. Before the election, much of the coverage by the western media, the BBC included, had focused on the issue of Hamas standing in the election at all. Branded a terrorist organisation by Israel, America, and much of Europe, Hamas had carried out dozens of suicide attacks inside Israel, killing hundreds of civilians...
...failed state since its degeneration into clan warfare in the 1990s following the death of the dictator of General Mohammed Siad Barre. Today, it is ruled by a fragile coalition of warlords kept in place by the Ethiopian army, which invaded with U.S. backing to drove out an Islamist authority that had, ironically, managed to tamp down piracy, but was also harboring wanted al-Qaeda figures. And some of the warlords in the current government are accused by international observers of being the real commanders of Puntland's half-dozen main pirate groups...
...conflict that has claimed over 68,000 lives - feelings are still strong. When Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari, who has been keen to develop stronger ties with Pakistan's neighbours, recently told an interviewer that India had "never been a threat" to Pakistan and labeled as "terrorists" the Islamist militants who had fought India in Kashmir with the backing of the Pakistani military, there was outrage in Pakistan and among Kashmiris on the Indian side of the Line of Control...
...whole world became very concerned about the violence in Kenya and wanted a negotiated settlement, because they realized the outcome was not what Kenyans voted for," says Odinga adviser Salim Lone, commenting on Corsi's alleged Obama-Odinga-Islamist nexus. "Raila became Prime Minister because of the view that the unrest would continue. Islam had nothing to do with it, and in any event, the violence in Muslim areas was minimal as compared to the others. It has absolutely no basis in fact...
...that the kooks give good sound bites, and Void knows there's been enough evil committed in the names of Jesus and Mohammed. Still, I wanted Maher to confront, and be challenged by, the better class of believers: a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, perhaps, or some articulate Episcopalian or Islamist, or comedian and noted Catholic layman Stephen Colbert. Maher seems interested less in conversation than in confrontation, so his movie is less essay than inquisition. Maybe that tone will win Religulous some conversions, but this critic remains a skeptic...