Word: islamist
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...negate 12 years and billions of dollars of investment by the international community in establishing the infrastructure of Palestinian self-rule. Moreover, he suggested, it is sure to plunge Palestinian society deeper into the vortex of poverty - which would make it more fertile ground for just the brand of Islamist extremism that the U.S. is trying to defeat...
...tracking extremists. The problem, security officials say, is the document de Villiers has brandished is bogus - containing errors and inaccuracies police intelligence agents would never make. Worse yet, they add, his false alarm may have ruined work of agents who are watching a few airport employees actually suspected of Islamist ties - and who may now go underground...
...Laden's statement sought to portray him as a champion of the Palestinians against a Western "crusade" and, in passing, castigated Hamas for its decision to enter the Palestinian parliament and other Arab or Islamist moderates for even considering dialogue with the West. Hamas responded by saying that while Bin Laden was entitled to his own opinions (the implication being that in the case of the Palestinians he should keep them to himself), "We are interested in good relations with the West and we call on the Western countries to reconsider their stance towards the Palestinian cause and the Muslim...
...decision to enter politics and warning it never to make peace with Israel. That time, Hamas leader Khaled Meshal responded that Hamas had its own vision and always acted in the Palestinian national interest - it didn't need al Qaeda's advice. Zawahiri had also criticized the dominant Islamist group of his home country - the Muslim Brotherhood - for its participation in Egypt's recent elections...
...idea of Islamist groups entering democratic politics is inherently threatening to al-Qaeda, whose very premise is that local Muslim grievances can only ever be redressed once the "far enemy" (the U.S.) has been forced, through jihad under the banner of al-Qaeda, to retreat from the Muslim world. If a different, democratic option becomes available for local Islamist groups to pursue their goals, al-Qaeda and its message of the clash of civilizations becomes essentially irrelevant - which is exactly what Hamas appears to be implying it is to the Palestinians...