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  • Dina had devoted her life to the study of terrorism and Islamic extremism, and yet she had no answers.†   (source)
    Islamic = relating to the Muslim religion which is the second most practiced in the world
  • We studied the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.†   (source)
  • Iran's military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it's like a mix of the Communist Party, the KGB, and the mafia.†   (source)
  • I regularly hear from acquaintances or distant family members that Obama has ties to Islamic extremists, or is a traitor, or was born in some far-flung corner of the world.†   (source)
  • Next to it is a framed photo of the black-robed Kaaba, holiest sanctum of Islam, surrounded by a ten-thousandfold swirl of the faithful.†   (source)
  • There were no female Orthodox rabbis, Catholic priests, nor Islamic clerics.†   (source)
  • And if he decided to convert to Islam?†   (source)
  • Rachel/Rachelle is now experimenting with Islam.†   (source)
  • I would love to spend my remaining breath chatting with you about the finer points of Islamic history, but our time together is short.†   (source)
  • Maurice Orabi-Roussel, Islamic Art.†   (source)
  • He also announced that interpretation of the Koran since the Shi'ites" seedship days had definitely shown that the God of Islam would neither condone nor allow the slaughter of the innocent, no matter how many jihads were proclaimed by tinhorn heretics like the New Prophet.†   (source)
  • We in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic world have a fair chunk of mythology invested in rain and its most major by-product.†   (source)
  • The only structures held sacred by both sides in the civil war had been the Islamic mosques.†   (source)
  • I HAD NEVER KNOWN THAT MUCH ABOUT ISLAM.†   (source)
  • The city comprises prominent (Jewish) synagogues, (Christian) churches, and (Islamic) mosques.†   (source)
  • Joe found Islam and began spending all his time studying the Koran in his cell.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife's glossolalia cult is the most successful religion since the creation of Islam.†   (source)
  • But that would have taken us over the dubious southern uplands of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we do not do that.†   (source)
  • It was a view of Islam not widely held among Americans, particularly the folks in Macon, Georgia, where Cole had grown up.†   (source)
  • The so-called Ancient Teachings — including those preserved by the Zensunni Wanderers from the first, second, and third Islamic movements; the Navachristianity of Chusuk, the Buddislamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankiveil and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur surviving on Salusa Secundus, the pervasive Obeah Ritual, the Muadh Quran with its pure Ilm and Fiqh preserved among the pundi rice farmers of Caladan, the Hindu outcroppings found all through the universe in little pockets of insulated pyons, and finally, the Butlerian Jihad.†   (source)
  • And who is doing the heavy lifting now, in civilization's current struggle with fundamentalist Islamic jihad?†   (source)
  • The reason there are so many Muslim terrorists, they argued, has little to do with the Koran but a great deal to do with the lack of robust female participation in the economy and society of many Islamic countries.†   (source)
  • Cedric lets on that things aren't going so well, and Torrence is at the ready with sweeping explanations from Islamic dogma for Cedric's unhappiness.†   (source)
  • Very crazy thing, Viktor says, bringing these shirts into a place where Islam is stronger every day.†   (source)
  • Kennedy never did learn why a white Christian supremacist group would give its bible essentially the same name as the most holy book of Islam.†   (source)
  • Throughout this mad jumble, however, Max could see unmistakable elements of human architecture—Chinese pavilions, Islamic minarets, Egyptian obelisks, massive domes and cupolas whose scale dwarfed their human antecedents.†   (source)
  • I believed that everyone should be able to practice according to their own preferences and beliefs, but an awful lot of pilgrims in prison seem to be making it up as they go along, in silly ways—wearing a contraband napkin on their head one month when they're practicing Islam, and then appearing in the Buddhist meditation circle the next—after realizing that they could duck out of work for this new brand of religious observance.†   (source)
  • A book in German entitled Der Staat und die Autonomen, a book in Swedish with the title Revolutionary Terrorism, and an English book Islamic Jihad.†   (source)
  • Carlos didn't care to understand the depths of their madness; he only knew they were the kind of people who would get what they wanted, and in the process he would get what he wanted: the restoration of Islam.†   (source)
  • He has drawn volunteers and admirers from every stratum of Pakistan's society and from all the warring sects of Islam.†   (source)
  • After the Romans came the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic states, the trade empires of Italian city-states, and the Ottoman Empire, which did not disappear until the twentieth century, when the powerful nations of the European continent contrived to defeat and divide it.†   (source)
  • He became aware that the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism.†   (source)
  • Climate, disease, tribal wars, and the incursion of Islam from the east had all played a part.†   (source)
  • In high school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Bin Laden joined an Islamic study group that memorized the entire Koran.†   (source)
  • Having taught themselves once to look through Islamic eyes, they could not return to the West, and were like young captives, deep in the enemy's country, who must rearrange their souls.†   (source)
  • When I am in America, my beloved home, I find myself defending Islam, my beautiful religion.†   (source)
  • Maybe that Islamic 'chatter' actually wasn't far from the truth, even though you planted it.†   (source)
  • Especially areas that were hard-core Islamic.†   (source)
  • I might have chosen one called Islam, only I know too well how it mixes with Hinduism.†   (source)
  • Is Islam an African religion?†   (source)
  • Her Islamic studies grew more rigid, too.†   (source)
  • To cross any of them is to leave the West and enter the Islamic world.†   (source)
  • All other radio was forbidden, lest she be exposed to un-Islamic ideas or, heaven forbid, music.†   (source)
  • After a light lunch she embarked on Palestinian studies, followed by Islamic and jihadist studies.†   (source)
  • Take away the land," Gabriel added, "and there can be no Islamic State.†   (source)
  • In word and deed, she became more pious, more outwardly Islamic.†   (source)
  • For all its Islamic fervor, Osama bin Laden's creation was a highly bureaucratic enterprise.†   (source)
  • "The truth is," he said, "ISIS is indeed Islamic.†   (source)
  • But then, the global war against Islamic extremism made for strange bedfellows, none stranger than Gabriel Allon and Fareed Barakat.†   (source)
  • Such was life in the Islamic caliphate, bombs falling upon severed heads, in a park where children once played.†   (source)
  • The enemy could not be reasoned with or dismissed; it could not be appeased by an American withdrawal from the Islamic world.†   (source)
  • He planned to carry out an attack of such severity that the West would have no choice but to invade the Islamic caliphate.†   (source)
  • Softly, he repeated the traditional Islamic greeting of peace, though without the name of the man he was addressing.†   (source)
  • He built mosques and Islamic centers of learning across his lands and lavished money and favors on preachers and religious scholars.†   (source)
  • Jerusalem would remain under Islamic control until 1917, when the British seized it from the Ottoman Turks.†   (source)
  • They're ramping up their surveillance of known Islamic extremists and searching for the man who built the bomb and the other elements of the network.†   (source)
  • The panelists were discussing a recent Islamic State fatwa regarding sexual relations between males and their female slaves.†   (source)
  • Islam was their only bridge, but Safia had almost no understanding of the tenets of jihad or even the basics of Islamic practice.†   (source)
  • The interrogations only hardened Ziad's views, and against Leila's wishes he decided to travel to Iraq to join the Islamic resistance.†   (source)
  • He was the prototype of a new kind of Islamic extremist, willing to use horrifying violence to shock and terrify.†   (source)
  • So it was understandable that a relatively minor skirmish between Islamic militants and Jordanian police went largely unnoticed.†   (source)
  • Because they don't have to study un-Islamic subjects like English literature or Italian Renaissance painting.†   (source)
  • We seek to re-create the caliphate in the Muslim lands of the Middle East and establish Islamic dominance over the rest of the world.†   (source)
  • Then one day, stoned, drunk, she found herself standing outside an Islamic bookstore in central Bristol.†   (source)
  • She was a Sherpa on the secret ratline that funneled British Muslims from East London and the Midlands to Syria and the Islamic caliphate.†   (source)
  • This time, their task was to undo what they had done before, to flush Natalie's system of Palestinian enmity and Islamic zeal, to turn her into an Israeli again.†   (source)
  • It suggested he was a man of ambition, a man of history who had visions of using mass murder as a means of unifying the Arab and Islamic world under the black flag of ISIS and the caliphate.†   (source)
  • It was haram in the Islamic State for a woman to reveal her face to a male who was not a relative, even if the male was an important Iraqi from the network of Saladin.†   (source)
  • A few were from Syria, but most were Saudis, Egyptians, Tunisians, or wild-eyed Islamic warriors from the Caucasus who were pleased to be fighting Russians again.†   (source)
  • Or he might be a Tunisian or a Saudi or an Egyptian or an Englishman or one of the other lunatics who've rushed to Syria to live in this new Islamic paradise of theirs.†   (source)
  • She watched videos of roadside bombings of American forces in Iraq and surfed some of the more salacious Islamic Web sites, which her instructors referred to as jihadi porn.†   (source)
  • By fighting for the Islamic State.†   (source)
  • "The organization for which I work," Jalal explained, his Arabic echoing softly among the pillars of the arcades, "handles external affairs for the Islamic State.†   (source)
  • He prayed at the East London Mosque and joined the London chapter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Sunni Islamic organization that supported the resurrection of the caliphate long before anyone had heard of a group called ISIS.†   (source)
  • Dina was the Office's top terrorism specialist, a human database who could recite the time, place, perpetrators, and casualty toll of every act of Palestinian or Islamic terrorism committed against Israel and the West.†   (source)
  • She read Sayyid Qutb, the dissident Egyptian writer regarded as the founder of modern Islamism, and slogged her way through Ibn Taymiyyah, the thirteenth-century Islamic theologian who, according to many experts in the field, was the wellspring for it all.†   (source)
  • Rousseau dispatched a cable to MI5 in London and, in the dullest language possible, asked whether the British security service had a place of residence for one Jalal Nasser and whether it had reason to suspect his involvement in any form of Islamic extremism.†   (source)
  • The security service placed the woman under electronic and physical surveillance, but the surveillance was subsequently dropped when she exhibited no signs of continued involvement in radical Islamic activities.†   (source)
  • The president immediately ordered massive air strikes against all known ISIS targets in Syria, Iraq, and Libya, though he went out of his way to assure the Islamic world that America was not at war with them.†   (source)
  • The church chose Islam for the name because it was a language they considered dirty.†   (source)
  • And a non-Muslim is a nonbeliever standing as a bulwark against the spread of Islam.†   (source)
  • Anyone who had a problem with rainbows, he said, would surely have trouble with Islam.†   (source)
  • Why, Islam is nothing but an easy sort of exercise, I thought.†   (source)
  • The Azhar Book traces this in slightly different form to First Islam.†   (source)
  • "No," he said, a bit angrily, "my Islam was a political thing."†   (source)
  • Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful.†   (source)
  • Knowledge of Islam was mandatory for all Muslim students; its practice was not.†   (source)
  • Some background on Islam in Iraq: There were two main groups of Muslims in Iraq, Sunnis and Shiites†   (source)
  • All three Western religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—share a Semitic background.†   (source)
  • This was a village full of Islamic fanatics who wanted only to see dead Americans.†   (source)
  • I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it.†   (source)
  • Islam has granted the freedom of killing both of them.†   (source)
  • Did he not know that his God and Islam's were one and the same?†   (source)
  • When I started first grade, I began studying Islam in school one hour per week.†   (source)
  • This is still law today both for Judaism and Islam.†   (source)
  • The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are," pronounced the pandit.†   (source)
  • We learned not only about Islam but also about Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism.†   (source)
  • She told him that she had actually been considering converting to Islam.†   (source)
  • After the death of Muhammad in 632, both the Middle East and North Africa were won over to Islam.†   (source)
  • Islam followed right behind, hardly a year later.†   (source)
  • If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith."†   (source)
  • She'd thought He was the actual god of Islam, the one whom Muslims worshiped.†   (source)
  • We do, however, have two things in common with Saudi Arabia, he continued: "Islam and petroleum."†   (source)
  • Islam adopted Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and Bagdad as holy cities.†   (source)
  • But she knew that in Islam she had found calm.†   (source)
  • We were taught to practice Islam, but to respect all religions.†   (source)
  • Mr. and Mr. Kumar taught me biology and Islam.†   (source)
  • Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all share the same fundamental idea that there is only one God.†   (source)
  • She began reading about Islam, investigating the Qur'an.†   (source)
  • "She was looking to Islam!" he said with a sneer.†   (source)
  • Shortly thereafter, Spain also became part of the world of Islamic culture.†   (source)
  • She was recovering from an unsuccessful marriage and had recently converted to Islam.†   (source)
  • She liked Islam's sense of personal responsibility, its bent toward social justice.†   (source)
  • The fact that Islam acknowledged these books was revelatory for her.†   (source)
  • And to dismiss all of Islam with a playground sound?†   (source)
  • There were times, however, when her mother's loyalty to Kathy trumped her issues with Islam.†   (source)
  • Even her view of her family softened through the lens of Islam.†   (source)
  • So by fits and starts, she followed Yuko into Islam.†   (source)
  • The Islamic statement of faith, in transliterated Arabic: there is no God but God.]†   (source)
  • A stint with Islamic Relief, working in refugee camps in Kurdistan.†   (source)
  • Fortier was going to wipe out most of Islam-it could hardly be Allah's will.†   (source)
  • We don't blame Ellaha's difficulties on the Prophet Muhammad or on Islam as such.†   (source)
  • You re concerned with Islam, Fortier said.†   (source)
  • They may set up their own, they may even call it Islam, but it won't be the Islam you know.†   (source)
  • "I respect Islam," Mortenson said, as Abdul looked on, approvingly.†   (source)
  • You did this under the authority of Islam because you knew I would respect it.†   (source)
  • Then there's Torrence, who has been joined in his passion for Islam by Cedric's first cousin, Aisha.†   (source)
  • Haram is an Arabic word that mean, "forbidden by Islam."†   (source)
  • In Islam the Sufis and Dervishes use drugs to accomplish this.†   (source)
  • Your noble work follows the highest principles of Islam, to tend to the poor and sick.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't mind converting her to Islam, if you catch my drift.†   (source)
  • Moody explained that I was studying the Koran, learning about Islam at my own pace.†   (source)
  • It pains her, as a pious Muslim, that some fundamentalists want to kill her in the name of Islam.†   (source)
  • So let's face the question squarely: Is Islam misogynistic?†   (source)
  • In valleys like the Upper Braldu, Islam has never completely vanquished older, animist beliefs.†   (source)
  • Giving to the poor, one of the pillars of Islamic faith.]†   (source)
  • Moody no longer practiced the extreme form of Islam under which he had been raised.†   (source)
  • Among the warring sects of Islam, Mortenson knew, men had been killed for less.†   (source)
  • In contrast, conservative Islam has barely budged.†   (source)
  • I pulled the holy book of Islam from its place in our bookcase and handed it to my husband.†   (source)
  • Moody explained that Islam is divided into numerous sects.†   (source)
  • At the same time, Muhammad himself had many slaves, and Islamic law unmistakably accepts slavery.†   (source)
  • "There are certain Europeans who come to Pakistan determined to tear Islam down," Syed Abbas says.†   (source)
  • Most of them were about Islam, but I did not care.†   (source)
  • Changazi told Mortenson how he squared his dalliances with his devotion to Islam.†   (source)
  • It is not found in most Arab or Islamic cultures outside Africa.†   (source)
  • These are the houri, and some Islamic theologians have been quite specific in describing them.†   (source)
  • I hung up the phone, feeling an Islamic noose around my neck.†   (source)
  • When he sees that you respect Islam and our ways he can be of much help, Inshallah.†   (source)
  • Nasserine, the dutiful Islamic spy, drew Amir off to a corner.†   (source)
  • In the end, despite these deep cultural ties, the Islamic world has entirely renounced slavery.†   (source)
  • An infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam.†   (source)
  • I was so worried about what might happen to me in this, quote, scary Islamic country.†   (source)
  • Why would they risk the harsh penalties imposed by the ayatollah for any violation of Islamic law?†   (source)
  • The major attraction seemed to be a booth selling Islamic literature.†   (source)
  • He had an extensive library, divided between medical tomes and Islamic propaganda.†   (source)
  • The words "police" and "Islamic law" spun dizzily through my head.†   (source)
  • She was a dutiful Islamic wife but she was also a curious American woman.†   (source)
  • I knew enough of Islamic law to raise a valid objection.†   (source)
  • Mahtob and I had both come to enjoy food not only from Iran, but from numerous Islamic countries.†   (source)
  • If Islamic law held such a spell over Khanum Shaheen, what sympathy could I expect from the police?†   (source)
  • You are not comfortable in chador Chador is not Islamic.†   (source)
  • I said my Islamic prayers faithfully and, following my example, so did Mahtob.†   (source)
  • The Hakims would be thrilled If I became a dutiful Islamic wife, but only of my own free will.†   (source)
  • They retained their Islamic faith and their Persian customs.†   (source)
  • I had just taken one more small step toward escaping the Islamic Republic of iran.†   (source)
  • Moody began to say his Islamic prayers with a piety I had not witnessed in him before.†   (source)
  • I was more sincere in my Islamic prayers than Moody could possibly believe.†   (source)
  • She tossed off the statement in a matter-of-fact manner, indoctrinated by her Islamic teachers.†   (source)
  • In Farsi, the official language of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the word means "moonlight."†   (source)
  • A present day example of international events turned into folly is the Islamic Republic of Iran.†   (source)
  • Remember," Nabil Awad added, "Zarqawi was a drinker before he discovered the beauty of Islam."†   (source)
  • As her interest in politics grew, so did her devotion to Islam.†   (source)
  • While preparing supper that evening she told Natalie of her conversion to Islam.†   (source)
  • Finally, a scholar of Islam from Cambridge explained the seeming paradox.†   (source)
  • Political Islam was their salvation, and ISIS was their paradise.†   (source)
  • Why are the bearded ones the new rock stars of Islam?†   (source)
  • And whenever her instructors were talking about Palestine or Islam, she wore her hijab.†   (source)
  • His mother was a devout Muslim who believed that only Islam could save her troubled son.†   (source)
  • All dealt with issues related to Islam and jihadism.†   (source)
  • Islam had left no visible marks on Qassam.†   (source)
  • She was Safia as she might have been if radical Islam hadn't sunk its hooks into her.†   (source)
  • Then she converted to Islam, took the veil, and began to pray five times a day.†   (source)
  • Natalie imagined the woman Safia might have become were it not for radical Islam and ISIS.†   (source)
  • Do you wish to fight for the Islamic State?†   (source)
  • Here, too, ISIS had imposed an Islamic death sentence on the non-Islamic past.†   (source)
  • Indar said, "Well, I suppose you can say that Islam has become an African religion.†   (source)
  • Echoes of the ancient Art still resonated in every corner of the globe, from the mystical Kabbalists of Judaism to the esoteric Sufis of Islam.†   (source)
  • Karzai's cabinet will allow cable television networks to broadcast programs, challenging the Islamic hard-liners who had opposed it.†   (source)
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