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  • This is what the Salafist Jamaa Islamiya, the Muslim Brotherhood and others have done, peddling themselves as the new identity of the Arab region.

    Raghida Dergham: Talk of the Muslim Brotherhood's Role in the Arab Spring Is Exaggerated Raghida Dergham 2011

  • Blogger Emna Ben Jamaa posted this Tweet earlier: 4 hours of queuing in the sun, but I'VE VOTED!!!

    Tunisian elections: Live blog 2011

  • Indeed, not to be outdone by the Brotherhood's public relations foray, the radical Islamist Salafist movement is creating its own political party called "Peace and Development Party (PDP)" (sound soothingly famiiar?) headed by "former" Salafi terrorist Kamal Habib, who was once a member in the outlawed terrorist organization, Jamaa Al Islamiya.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Muslim Brotherhood's New Facelift Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011

  • This is what the Salafist Jamaa Islamiya, the Muslim Brotherhood and others have done, peddling themselves as the new identity of the Arab region.

    Raghida Dergham: Talk of the Muslim Brotherhood's Role in the Arab Spring Is Exaggerated Raghida Dergham 2011

  • In attendance for the meeting are representatives of semi-autonomous states such as Puntland and Glamudug, as well as Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa, an armed group allied to Somalia's Transitional Federal Government.

    Little Hope for Talks on Somali Government Transition 2011

  • Indeed, not to be outdone by the Brotherhood's public relations foray, the radical Islamist Salafist movement is creating its own political party called "Peace and Development Party (PDP)" (sound soothingly famiiar?) headed by "former" Salafi terrorist Kamal Habib, who was once a member in the outlawed terrorist organization, Jamaa Al Islamiya.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Muslim Brotherhood's New Facelift Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011

  • Peter Moss, 59, was at the Argana cafe in the popular Jamaa el-Fnaa square when a remote-controlled nail bomb was detonated at lunchtime.

    Briton killed in Marrakech bomb attack 2011

  • Jamaa el-Fnaa square, next to the city's historic market area, draws crowds of tourists with its snake charmers, fire-eaters and tooth pullers.

    Briton killed in Marrakech bomb attack 2011

  • The Egyptian revolution gave Salafis a "chance and now we're taking advantage of this chance and seizing it," said Kamal Habib, a self-described "modern Salafi" and former jihadist who spent most of the 1980s in prison for his membership in Al Jamaa Al Islamiya, a militant group that launched attacks on the Egyptian government and foreign tourists throughout the 1990s before renouncing violence in 2003.

    Egypt Clashes Turn Spotlight on Radicals Matt Bradley 2011

  • In attendance for the meeting are representatives of semi-autonomous states such as Puntland and Glamudug, as well as Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa, an armed group allied to Somalia's Transitional Federal Government.

    Little Hope for Talks on Somali Government Transition 2011

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