Word: islamicizing
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"The Algerian people are Muslims," says the voice on the minaret's loudspeaker. "The police who prevent people from coming to prayers are not true Muslims." Security forces surrounding the mosque listen impassively as the message grows more strident. "This government ruined the country. It is the people who suffer...
Such sermons have galvanized the discontented in a country mired in political and economic chaos. Earlier this year, members of the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front issued a manifesto of civil disobedience and occupied sections of Algiers to protest electoral laws that they claimed were devised to deny them victory in...
How could a nation that is geographically and culturally closer to Paris than to Mecca or Tehran come to such a pass? For years the government managed to contain the fundamentalists by building mosques and passing laws to placate them, then arresting leaders who became too powerful. But after political...
While the contours of the deal seemed clear, the mechanics posed nettlesome questions. Among the most vexing was a condition contained in the letter former British hostage John McCarthy brought to Perez de Cuellar from Islamic Jihad, a fundamentalist Shi'ite faction, operating under the banner of the pro-Iranian...
Several other potential stumbling blocks exist. Islamic Jihad's call for "the release of all detainees around the world," if serious, may bring at least seven other European countries into the negotiations. Five Arab terrorists are held in Britain, two in France, two in Greece, five in Italy, three in...