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This is a major accolade and a global platform for what would otherwise have been an obscure outfit devoted to the promotion of those detainees and convicted prisoners from groups that are associated with al-Qaeda and other exponents of the ideology that is known as salafi jihadism.
Analysis 2010
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The repression has weakened the hands of the pragmatists, whose advocacy of democratic participation has offered few rewards, and may have strengthened the position of the rising religious "salafi" trend within the movement.
Latest Articles 2009
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Are Osama bin Laden and other "salafi" Muslims are being true to Islam's tenets or are they simply "freedom fighters" articulating their grievances against Western imperialism through an Islamic paradigm?
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Are Osama bin Laden and other "salafi" Muslims are being true to Islam's tenets or are they simply "freedom fighters" articulating their grievances against Western imperialism through an Islamic paradigm?
American Thinker 2008
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The word "salafi" in Arabic means "ancestor," hearkening back to a supposedly purer form of Islam said to have been practiced by Muhammad and his companions in the 7th century.
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I asked permission to respond:) I hate secteriasim and division I lost many "salafi" friends because of my views ... but I wont sacrifice my religion for what is wrong.
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This video is a response to brother Orthodox786 video which is directed to brother Khalid. .but I asked permission to respond:) I hate secteriasim and division I lost many "salafi" friends because of my views ... but I wont sacrifice my religion for what is wrong.
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Kagan also added -- and I agree -- that the rejection of Al Qaeda in Iraq by the Sunnis is extremely good news about the dim prospects for the salafi-jihadists throughout the region.
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The greatest pressure, I hear, actually came from the more radical and salafi youth who vehemently opposed the relatively liberal trend embodied in the blogging experiment.
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The greatest pressure, I hear, actually came from the more radical and salafi youth who vehemently opposed the relatively liberal trend embodied in the blogging experiment.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Information warfare 2009
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