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...Qaeda, he should be arrested. He's a terrorist." - Abdul Razzak Aziz of the Islamic Association of Long Island (Newsday, July...
...local warlords: In Gaza, on Monday, Fatah-aligned gunmen who attacked a Palestinian police station and electricity utility were repelled by mostly Fatah-aligned Palestinian policemen. Hamas, meanwhile, has picked a cabinet designed to show a responsible face to the world: Its nominee for finance minister, economist Omar Abdel Razzak, has said that financial cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians is in the best interests of both sides, and should continue. He believes it will, since he also thinks Israel will move towards making a reluctant accommodation with a Hamas-led government once its own election is over. After...
...While Razzak appears to be a well-qualified technocrat, there are questions over whether Interior Minister nominee and longtime Hamas activist Sayed Siam will have the power and experience to handle the increasingly difficult internal security challenge symbolized by Monday's Gaza firefights. Still, Hamas is taking a pragmatic approach, blessing current talks about opening border crossings to ease the stranglehold on Gaza's food supplies and also on combating a regional outbreak of bird...
...scared to even register. He suspects that few in the Sunni minority will go to the polls--perhaps not even 10%--which could undermine the election's legitimacy. "Many people from Arab countries will say this is not a correct election," says Dr. Sa'ad Abdul al-Razzak of Pachachi's party. U.S. officials say they will urge Shi'ite leaders to reach out to Sunnis after the election to bring them into the government and make sure they are sufficiently represented. "We believe the process will have Sunni input," says the U.S. official. "We believe all Iraqis understand representation...
Behind the classroom doors, however, anti-U.S. rhetoric is as scorching as ever, inflamed by the U.S. campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. As Abdul Razzak Sikander, one of the Binori preachers, puts it, "The West is against Islam. They are afraid of us." Holy war, he believes, is a legitimate weapon of defense against this religious enmity...