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		<title>Fatah student leaders in Gaza Strip announce &#8217;state of alert&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/fatah-student-leaders-in-gaza-strip-announce-state-of-alert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students called upon the Palestinian people to “stand together” to protect the university in Gaza City from “attacks by the Islamic bloc.”
The Fatah students also accused Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, of being responsible for attacks against students and workers at the university earlier this week, according to the statement.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Egypt: Sunni scholars sanction &#8216;electronic Jihad&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/egypt-sunni-scholars-sanction-electronic-jihad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attacking American and Israeli websites by hacking and sabotage is allowed under Islamic law and is a form of &#8216;Jihad&#8217; or holy war, top Muslim scholars have decreed.
The religious edict (fatwa) issued by a committee from the highest authority in Sunni Islam, Egypt&#8217;s Al-Azhar University in Cairo, was published on the website of the Islamist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8746&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AKP accused of Islamist staffing of Turkey&#8217;s TRT</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/akp-accused-of-islamist-staffing-of-turkeys-trt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey&#8217;s first and only official national public broadcaster, TRT, is currently facing a radical wave of internal appointments, a move accepted as aiming to shift TRT’s autonomies policy toward a more Islamic axis, the Turkish Daily News (TDN) wrote on Monday.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Troop pull-out leaves government on brink</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US must now be wondering whether it was all worth it. Western backing for the unpopular Somali government and US support for the Ethiopian intervention has created a groundswell of anti-West sentiment in Somalia.
The Islamist leaders they were so keen to oust are the same ones they are now engaged in negotiations with. US [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8549&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morocco&#8217;s king launches offensive against radical Islam &#8211; Feature</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/moroccos-king-launches-offensive-against-radical-islam-feature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morocco is trying to stem radicalism with a two-track approach, combining attempts to promote a tolerant brand of Islam with the detentions of thousands of extremist suspects.
 
The arrests have elicited criticism from human rights groups, which say that the secret service has abducted dozens of suspects illegally, taking them to detention centres such as the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8405&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distorting the Meaning of Shariah</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/distorting-the-meaning-of-shariah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tsunami of Islamophobia continues to roll in.  The article by Frosty Woolridge, ”America Must Never Succumb to Islam’s Shariah Law,” in today’s NewswithViews.com is perhaps the clearest distortion yet of Islamic law.  He supports Congressman Tancredo’s “Jihad Prevention Act &#8230; which would deny U.S. visas to advocates of ‘Shari’a’ law and expel Islamists already [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8310&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic Group Gains Power in Indonesia</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/islamic-group-gains-power-in-indonesia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAKARTA — In a sign of its growing prominence, Indonesia’s Council of Ulemas moved its headquarters from the basement of a major mosque here into an expensive new office tower in the heart of downtown. The council was established in 1975 as a quasi-governmental body of Muslim scholars by Suharto, the country’s leader for three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8285&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide bomber kills at least 18 at Pakistani politician&#8217;s home</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/suicide-bomber-kills-at-least-18-at-pakistani-politicians-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An attacker walked into an open meeting that member of parliament Rashid Akbar Nowani was holding in the courtyard of his home in the central town of Bhakkar, in Punjab province, and blew himself up amid a throng of about 200. Some reports put the death toll as high as 25, with 53 hurt, some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8283&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islamist movement banned in Bulgaria</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/islamist-movement-banned-in-bulgaria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Bulgarian court has banned an Islamic association from operating in the country, accusing it of fanning religious hatred, it was announced yesterday.  The association Charitable Projects, which has been active in Bulgaria since the mid-1990s, was banned for “propagating religious hatred against the majority Christian Orthodox Bulgarians and the traditionally Hanif Muslims in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8279&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Years in Afghanistan: From &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; to &#8220;War of Terror&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/seven-years-in-afghanistan-from-war-on-terror-to-war-of-terror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 7, 2008. Seven years ago today the U.S. began the assault on Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban regime and produced the present mess. Abetted by U.S. bombing and commando operations, the Northern Alliance took Kabul on November 13, 2001. This was the initial U.S. response to 9-11, an assault on the U.S. by Saudi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8255&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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