Word: islamists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much to be gained in helping implement a plan designed explicitly to sideline them, and U.S. and Israeli officials had begun to worry in the months preceding the plan's endorsement by the White House that its implementation, would, in effect, hand Gaza over to Hamas. The radical Islamist movement today commands far greater political support and moral authority on the streets of Gaza today than does Arafat's moribund Palestinian Authority. Withdrawal from Gaza would leave the green and white flags of Hamas fluttering from the rooftops of the vacated settlements as thousands of supporters fired Kalashnikovs...
...Marx accused capitalism of ruthlessly exploiting workers. Buruma and Margalit spotlight the often striking overlap in language and ideas between Europe's intellectual rebels from the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and today's Islamic reactionaries, and demonstrate how that influence was transmitted. Many of Iran's Islamist revolutionaries, for example, absorbed Marxism's critique of the capitalist West. Hence, the authors insist, the rise of anti-American hatred in Islamic nations "is not ... a civilization at war with another ... [I]t is a tale of cross-contamination, the spread of bad ideas." These bad ideas have made...
...Convinced Moussaoui is plotting to seize control of an airplane, Minnesota FBI agents seek a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to search his belongings. French sources tell agents Moussaoui has ties to Islamist militants, but FBI headquarters does not believe that justifies a FISA warrant...
...deputies, but the U.S. was unable to kill him for two years before and for almost three years after the attacks of 2001. Even had he been killed by 1999, bin Laden's influence and accomplishments would have been enough by then to have launched the global, radical Islamist movement. In death he will become a martyr and further inspiration to radical Islamists--until someone offers an effective ideological or religious counterweight. --By RICHARD A. CLARKE, former head of counterterrorism in the National Security Council
...have denounced as anti-Semitic Ramadan's recent critique of "Jewish French intellectual" reaction to the intifadeh. They were appalled when he suggested last year a "moratorium," rather than an outright ban, on the stoning of adulterers in order to consider the legitimacy of the act. (In 2003, his Islamist brother Hani was dismissed as a schoolteacher after defending the stoning of women in Le Monde...