Sentences with phrase «islamist government»

Last year Turkey's Islamist government stepped up its war on Christianity by seizing all the churches in one city and declaring them state property.

CNN: Amid Orthodox Christmas, Egypt's Christians fear for their rights under Islamist government Orthodox Christmas was January 7, but the mood in Cairo's working - class Shobra district this year was somber.

For more than two decades, Sudan has been ruled by the Islamist government of Omar Hassan Ahmad al - Bashir, who spent decades locked in a brutal civil war with Christian separatists in the south.

The Administration undoubtedly believes that democracy is the only long - run hope for the Middle East, and that democratically - elected Islamist governments, if that is what the region's people wish, are the short - term price one has to pay.

Not exact matches

Al Shabaab coalesced after the 2006 U.S. - backed Ethiopian invasion that overthrew the conservative - Islamist Islamic Courts Union, which had set itself up as a de-facto government amidst Somalia's ongoing stateless vacuum.

A government program that was set up to counter violent ideologies may be renamed and re-organized so that it only focuses on Islamist extremist ideologies.

Niek de Goeij is speaking as separatist and Islamist terrorists continue to cause violence in the north African country, despite a peace agreement in June between the Mali government and rebel groups who wanted to form a separate state.

The far left's disgraceful response to September 11» it has temporized about terror, embraced moral equivalence between the Islamist fanatics who killed thousands of innocent Americans and the military actions of the democratically elected U.S. government, and even blamed the U.S. for....

In northern Nigeria, a rash of Islamist bombings, guerrilla - style attacks, and increased government restrictions on Christians contributed to the region leaping from 23rd to 13th place.

The government will not bow to pressure from Islamist extremists, he said.

She was previously kidnapped by Islamist extremists in 2012, and returned to her home in Timbuktu despite the Swiss government warning her not to do so.

And, in the military struggle against the government, the clear lines of distinction that the West wants to see between the National Coalition - linked Free Syrian Army and the Islamist factions have been blurred several times.

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.

Asked what she regarded as the government's major achievement, she said it was to improve security in the north - east where militant Islamist group Boko Haram has waged an insurgency since 2009.

After Mubarak gave up power, the interim military government held parliamentary elections that yielded an Islamist supermajority comprised of the Muslim Brotherhood and the extreme Islamist (Salafist) Alliance.

«Protecting our children is one of the first duties of government and that is why the issue of alleged Islamist extremism in Birmingham schools demands a robust response,» the prime minister said.

Last weekend, I discussed on Radio France International the meeting in Khartoum (Sudan) of thousands of politico - religious militants with strong links to the government: the general conference of the Islamist movement known as Al - Harakat Al - Islamiyyah is the most important political rally in the country of the last 10 - 15 years.

As for the fortunes of the conflict, systematic pounding of government positions enabled the Islamist militias on the ground.

Moreover, given that Woolas wants to penalise the holders of vigorous anti-war views, there would need to be a register of Government - endorsed parties: presumably an Islamist party wouldn't qualify; what about Sinn Fein, Republican Sinn Fein, Respect?

Their sources say around 110 of the 150 extreme Islamist criminals in prison or on parole are proactively resisting attempts to persuade them away from such beliefs despite the government's «Contest» scheme which encourages offenders to choose a path of non violence.

But if we talk exactly about ISIS, not about all the crowd of islamist radicals waving some black banners, then I see neither ISIS» anti-Turkey actions, nor Turkish government's counter-measures.

In the largest protests in the country for decades, thousands of civilians have been killed and the situation has the potential to turn into a civil war between the government, the opposition, and Islamist groups.

The United States warned its citizens on Saturday of possible attacks by Islamist militants on U.S. facilities or shopping malls in South Africa during the upcoming month of Ramadan, but the South African government said the country was safe.

Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

The helpful analogy between extreme Islamism and far - right extremism, made by Quilliam in its publication «In defence of British Muslims: A response to BNP racist propaganda», is useful for understanding the problems that Islamist extremists can pose and in drawing up government policies in response.»

But the Bangladesh government rejects those claims and says homegrown Islamist groups are responsible.

Speaking on the Fulani herdsmen crisis in some parts of the country, he noted, «l also see the planned grazing Colonies being contemplated by the Federal Government of Nigeria as a subtle ploy to legitimate and settle foreign Fulani herdsmen who will be used by Islamist to prosecute jihad in Nigeria.

The weak central government then lost control of the northern regions of the country, which fell under the control of radical Islamist group Ansar Dine.

In February 2011 a Guardian blog report covering his early performance as Mayor concluded that he had proved «highly adept at political jujutsu - drawing strength from his enemies» attack», including unfair branding of the borough as «Islamist» in the tabloids, and was working with the local Labour MPs to resist the Government's cuts.

A Nigerian defence official has indicated that the government will not use force to rescue the girls being held captive by Islamist militant Boko Haram.

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

In the wake of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia, voters had chosen Islamist - led governments.

Islamist groups vehemently resisted government's efforts, and authorities backed down and made public statements indicating that they would not use force or shut down noncompliant madrasas to enforce the directives (Blanchard, 2006).

In response to the Ofsted report, Birmingham local government officials and politicians accused Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, of deliberately misrepresenting problems of governance in a small number of schools by associating them with a wider threat of Islamist extremism.

In Iran, following the ouster of the shah, a provisional government was established, and for a critical moment in the modern age's first Islamist revolution, a more open and democratic society seemed possible.

«We thought it strange that the world's governments, churches, mosques and schools are all confronting the issue of Islamist fervor, but the world's artists aren't touching it,» says George Passmore.

• There are other good reasons to get off oil, starting with my desire to stifle our government's impulse to project its power to secure vital resources on foreign soil, and our need to de-finance Islamist terrorism.

The men urged the government to release Islamist leaders as a gesture of good will to the Brotherhood.»