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Examples
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A clip from that episode has been uploaded onto You Tube and has become a global phenomenon, for it shows how a Muslim scholar like al-Hitar argues with - and proves wrong - an al-Qaeda extremist.
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Remarkably, al-Hitar has deprogrammed over 300 extremists and is said to have even won over high-level Al-Qaeda agents, who have repented and turned on their leaders.
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Remarkably, al-Hitar has deprogrammed over 300 extremists and is said to have even won over high-level Al-Qaeda agents, who have repented and turned on their leaders.
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A clip from that episode has been uploaded onto You Tube and has become a global phenomenon, for it shows how a Muslim scholar like al-Hitar argues with - and proves wrong - an al-Qaeda extremist.
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By the time he was a teenager, al-Hitar wanted a broader education.
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All al-Hitar's lectures "did not convince me," the former jihadist said.
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When I visited al-Hitar at his home in Sana one evening, I mentioned what his former pupil al-Bahri had had to say about the ineffectiveness of his program.
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Nearly 400 prisoners attended al-Hitar's classes, repented and were released.
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Al-Hitar would then counter with his own usually more moderate interpretation of the same texts.
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Shortly after beginning work as a judge, in the early 1980s, al-Hitar quit the organization and joined the ruling party, led by President Saleh.
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