Richard Dawkins on militant atheism

The precise charge is militancy of behalf of Sendero Luminoso and, specifically, being the militant known as Rita , an important leader of this group.

Those who hold militant views are a small minority, and those who act on those militant views are an even smaller minority.

More ominous were the statements and challenges to the Palestinian Authority emanating from Hamas prior to the confrontation between the militant group and the Palestinian Authority on 14 and 15 July.

On 14 April, also in Nablus, an Israeli undercover unit killed a wanted Al Aqsa Brigades militant in a shoot out during an arrest operation the IDF charged that the militant had been planning a suicide bombing attack.

The threat from opposing militant forces who wanted to derail the electoral process failed to materialize.

On 7 June, a Palestinian militant and an unarmed Palestinian policeman were shot and killed in an exchange of fire that erupted in a village near the West Bank city of Jenin as Israeli troops were trying to arrest the militant.

(b) There is little evidence to support the theory that Mr. Abu Adas had militant extremist tendencies

In some cases, Australian society even had a militant attitude in favour of the rights of homosexuals.

Lashkar e Taiba (LET, Army of the Pure), a Pakistan based militant outfit supporting insurgency on the Indian side of Kashmir, was a product of these years. According to Indian investigators, this group is implicated in the Mumbai attacks.

The election of the militant and hitherto extra parliamentary group Hamas in the Palestinian territories reminds us of what democracy cannot achieve. No one in a more established democratic state is surprised if one s own side does not win.

As expected, the arrival of summer has resulted in an increased level of activity of opposing militant forces.

The number of militant rightist extremists, at approximately 5,400, was down slightly on the 1993 figure of 5,600.

The victims included alleged sympathizers of Islamic militant groups, students and three citizens of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

No, what I want to urge upon you instead what I want to urge upon you is militant atheism.

There are regions where militant structures maintain close relations with drug criminality structures also for purposes of financing themselves.

Militant separatism has become one of the main threats to international peace and security after the cold war period.

Militant Muslims are alleged to have murdered Judge Arif Iqbal Bhatti because he had acquitted Christians accused of blasphemy.

That important goal will be difficult to achieve, especially with militant extremists whose agenda is to derail the peace process.

ISAF estimates that, in the future, the presence of opposing militant forces in the western region may continue to diminish.

Jordan wants true, moderate, traditional Islam to replace fundamentalist, radical and militant Islam everywhere in the world for every single Muslim.

Propaganda, rocket attacks, improvised explosive devices and the occasional suicide bomber may remain the main weapons used by the opposing militant forces.

This is very uncharacteristic for a drug trafficker intent on profit it suggests that he had embraced a militant form of fundamentalism.

Israeli preparations for the evacuation and for the related process of relocating Israeli settlers are ongoing, notwithstanding continued opposition from the militant minority.

But there is much more to the story. In fact, retaliation against the militant group was little more than a convenient excuse to launch the so called Jubaland Initiative, a plan to protect Kenya s security and economic interests by carving out a semi autonomous client state in southern Somalia.

Other southern militant groups that did not participate in the peace talks will have to be incorporated in new structures that were created without them.

TEL AVIV As the Islamic State militant group has advanced across Iraq and Syria, traditional regional alliances, long shaped by Western powers, have been upended. Particularly consequential is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s struggle to reconcile his country s relationship with NATO with its image as a leading protector of Sunni Islam.

The region has a low presence and influence of opposing militant forces, even if these forces use transportation routes and rely on refuges in Farah province.

UNRWA was responsible for 59 refugee camps in the region, all told. Only in a few had any cases of participation in militant operations been recorded.

Saadi Bouslimani was reportedly a member of the Algerian opposition party Front des forces socialiste (FFS) and the Mouvement culturelle berbère (MCB), a militant cultural organization.

NAIROBI The attack that killed more than 70 people at Nairobi s Westgate shopping mall last week was, according to al Shabaab, the Somali Islamist militant group that carried it out, retribution for Kenya s intervention in Somalia. That raises a simple question What is Kenya doing in Somalia, and is it worth the price?

219. The Special Rapporteur was also informed that a number of armed militant opposition groups are responsible for human right abuses, including the killing of numerous civilians.

The Pashtuns dominate the south and many tolerate the presence of opposing militant forces, while at the same time rivalries between tribes severely hamper overall cohesion and effectiveness.

19. This slight decline in the number of militant rightist extremists was doubtless due to the many steps taken by the German State, as will be seen below.

In September, the Committee also expressed grave concern at efforts by militant settlers to establish a permanent presence in the Ras al Amud district in occupied East Jerusalem.

Elhadj Oumarou Oubandawaki, a militant member of the Front for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy, was arrested in Niamey on 3 February 1997 by six police officers.

On July 9, the militant group now known as the Islamic State captured 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of uranium compounds at Mosul University in Iraq. The captured uranium was not weapons grade international inspectors removed all sensitive material from Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War (which is why it was absent when the United States invaded in 2003).

The Sunni militant group Boko Haram, known internationally for abducting 276 schoolgirls in April and forcing them to marry its members, has been wreaking havoc in Nigeria for years. And the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State, whose dramatic rise has entailed untold horrors to Iraq and Syria, are seeking to establish a caliphate, by whatever means necessary.

While cross border mobility has been hindered by Coalition and Pakistani led anti terrorism operations, opposing militant forces are still able to find shelter in the Afghan Pakistan border area.

Sectarian groups such as the Sipah e Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), a militant Sunni organization, and the Tehrik e Jafria Pakistan (TJP) have also been responsible for acts of violence in Karachi.

It has been nine days since a Palestinian militant slipped into the city of Netanya, blew himself up, together with five Israelis, and scarred 30 others for the rest of their lives.

In recent years, public attitudes in Iran have become more liberal. At the same time, power has shifted from conservative pragmatism toward a much more militant fundamentalism. The call by the most important group of Iran s clerics for the election results to be thrown out is but the latest sign of the fight back of both the reformist and pragmatic conservative factions.

Although Brazil has no history of conflict with known militant groups, the government has said the Games made the country a more likely target, particularly because of participation by countries fighting Islamic State.

So when the first of those promises came, We sent upon you Our extremely militant bondmen they therefore entered the cities pursuing you and this was a promise that had to be fulfilled.

So when the first of those promises came, We sent upon you Our extremely militant bondmen they therefore entered the cities pursuing you and this was a promise that had to be fulfilled.