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in title, tags, annotations or urlQaddafi's Downfall Could Bring Chaos to Libya - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Colonel Qaddafi spent the last 40 years hollowing out every single institution that might challenge his authority
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Optimists hope that the opposition’s resolve persists; pessimists worry that unity will last only until Colonel Qaddafi is gone, and that a bloody witch hunt will ensue afterward.
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a United States counterterrorism official
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Global Voices Online » Egypt: The Egyptian Apostate - 0 views
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The State Award is not given to anyone based on the degree of his piety or his following of Islam - we are in Egypt not in Saudi Arabia.
Mohammad Khatami, a Former President, Criticizes Iran's Government - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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opposition leaders — much like their hard-line foes — are girding supporters for a long-term battle to be waged as much through ideas and quiet social organizing as through the public protests that followed Iran’s disputed presidential election on June 12. Both Mr. Khatami and members of the group he addressed, the Islamic Society of University Professors, expressed deep concerns about threats to academic freedom in the coming school year. On Saturday, after days of calls by conservatives to purge Iran’s universities of professors and curriculums deemed “un-Islamic,” the government announced the start of a high-level investigation on how the humanities are taught.
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a “soft war” against internal enemies. Anyone in the field of culture must now recognize important distinctions between “friends and enemies,” “attack and defense” and “explanation and propaganda,”
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He warned that the West, with its sophisticated media outlets, is better equipped for soft war than Iran.
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ArchNet: Islamic Architecture Community - 0 views
Islam Online - Services (Fatwa) - 0 views
FatwaIslam.Com - Fatwa | Islamic Rulings - 0 views
Virtually Islamic - 0 views
Digital Islam - 0 views
Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' hits Iraq TV - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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The late Iraqi dictator is lauded on a mysterious satellite channel that began broadcasting on the Islamic calendar's anniversary of his 2006 execution.
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The Associated Press tracked down a man in Damascus, Syria named Mohammed Jarboua, who claimed to be its chairman. The Saddam channel, he said, "didn't receive a penny from the Baathists" and is for Iraqis and other Arabs who "long for his rule." Jarboua has clearly made considerable efforts to hide where it's aired from and refuses to say who is funding it besides "people who love us."
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Saddam's hanging three years ago was on the first day of Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday of the Islamic calendar. His execution — and the day it was done — remains a sore point for Saddam sympathizers still smarting over images of the defiant leader in his final moments as Shiites in the death chamber shouted curses.
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Unmournable Bodies - The New Yorker - 0 views
Egyptian Chronicles: And Cartoonist Islam Gawish is released after wrongfully detention "Updated" - 0 views
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