Sentences with phrase «islamist president»

However, jihadist militants have killed hundreds of police and soldiers since the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.

CNN: Pew survey: Middle East Muslims support democracy, Islam in politics Just as an Islamist president takes office in Egypt, a major survey shows that most Muslims in nations in or close to the Middle East want both democracy and a strong role for Islam in politics and government.

He came to power in June 2014, after the revolution of Egypt's people against former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, calling on the military for the termination of the devastating tenure of the Muslim Brotherhood regime.

They continue to be discriminated against under Islamist President Mohamed Morsy, despite promises that he would be the president for all Egyptians,» Coptic lawyer Nabil Ghabriel said.

In Egypt, that figure jumped from 47 % to 66 % in the past year, even though the poll was conducted before Islamist President Mohamed Morsy recently took office.

Christianity Today: What Egyptian Christians Think About Their New Islamist President In the most democratic elections since 1952, the people of Egypt have freely chosen their leader.

Not exact matches

We know how it behaves, what it does,» he said, referring also to Assad's father and former president Hafez al - Assad, who crushed leftist and Islamist challenges to his rule.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the country's president, has been turning Turkey into an Islamist - tinged autocracy, purging the military and other state institutions of perceived internal enemies and jailing thousands of journalists, professors, civil society leaders, and political opponents.

Suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, in a twin attack bearing the hallmarks of Boko Haram and a day after US President Donald Trump pledged greater support to fight the Islamist militants.

«Every member of this diverse group praised President el - Sisi for his wise and courageous handling of the crisis in Egypt during the anti-government protests of June 2013, leading to the overthrow of Islamist leader Mohamed Morsi.»

«The parliament is dominated by opposition parties, some of which are Islamist and can make it difficult for the president to function,» it stated.

The Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, which propelled President Mohamed Mursi to power in a June election, said an unofficial tally showed 64 percent of voters backed the charter after two rounds of voting that ended with a final ballot on Saturday.

I rather have a Christian president than an Islamist / Muslim or as former president Bush might say, a «Mormonian» president.

Egypt has been facing an Islamist insurgency since the 2013 removal of Muslim Brotherhood - affiliated President Mohamed Morsi.

The protest on Sunday, organised by the Islamist Prosperous Justice Party, was the second since US president Donald Trump's decision on Thursday.

The verdict comes a day after Indonesia's president banned a hardline Islamist group, Hizb ut - Tahrir Indonesia, because it threatened national unity with its protests against Ahok and other activities, reports AsiaNews.

The last 3 thugs we had for presidents Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak fueled the tension by allowing islamist to attack Christians without punishment to create the sense of urgency and allow them to continue the use of Marshall laws.

Rebel groups and Islamist mercenaries from Chad and Sudan joined forces in December to form a militant coalition called Seleka, which took the capital, Bangui, on March 24 and sent then - President Francois Bozize into exile in Cameroon.

After joining French President Francois Hollande and more than one million people for a unity rally in Paris on Sunday, Mr Cameron said the UK was facing the same threat from the «fanatical death cult of Islamist extremist violence».

The President, John Mahama who is also the ECOWAS chairman has summoned an emergency ECOWAS meeting to discuss the upsurge in the activities of Islamist Militant group, Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass murder, state - sponsored terror, unprecedented corruption, monumental incompetence, the persecution of opposition figures and their families, the violation of court orders, the intimidation of the National Assembly, the Judiciary and the Fourth Estate of the realm which is the media, the targetting and cold - blooded murder of Christians, Igbo (IPOB) youths and Shiite Muslims, the gradual and incremental Islamisation of the nation, the humiliation of the Church and Christian clerics, the covert support for and encouragement of murderous Islamist and jihadist terror groups like the Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram and so on and so forth are now the cornerstone and hallmark of President Buhari's govermmemt.

The 82 schoolgirls released by Boko Haram Islamist militants are currently inside presidential Villa Abuja and met with President Muhammadu Buhari.

In his first appearance at the annual gathering of world leaders, the president used a 41 - minute speech to take aim also at Iran's nuclear ambitions and regional influence, Venezuela's collapsing democracy and the threat of Islamist extremists.

In recent months, President Buhari has visited many of Nigeria's trouble spots, including the north - eastern town of Dapchi, where 110 schoolgirls were abducted in February by militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

The President departed the country shortly after meeting with the 82 Chibok school girls who were released on Saturday by Boko Haram Islamist sect.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday claimed the military had routed Boko Haram in a key northeastern stronghold, a year after saying the Islamist militants had been «technically» defeated.

Within the Student Islamist movement, the more «moderate» elements and Persian speakers led by Burhanuddin Rabbani (who later became Afghan president) planned to infiltrate the army until the country was ready for an Islamist revolution, while the radicals led by Hekmatyar and others attempted to start military uprisings.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in areas worst hit by attacks by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

The Vice President, Namadi Sambo yesterday said the government is ready to dialogue with men of the dreaded Islamist group [Boko Haram].

Following their recent affirmation that President Goodluck Jonathan should quit power and convert to Islam, the presidency has replied the radical Islamist sect otherwise known as...

President Mahama as the Chairman of ECOWAS is expected to meet Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan to find ways of ending the activities of Nigeria's Islamist group, Boko Haram.

In June 2012, the Islamist leader Mohamed Morsi was elected president, only to be replaced by another phase of military rule, starting in July 2013.

In thwarting Israel's strategy, Hamas has also cast a shadow over the Egyptian - Israeli alliance that Israel worked hard to establish in the wake of last year's military coup against President Mohammed Morsi, a Muslim Brother aligned with the Islamist leadership in Gaza.

When Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, declared emergency rule in his country, he told the nation that the measure was necessary to control growing Islamist extremism in Pakistan.