MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - The president of a semi-autonomous region in northeastern Somalia said Monday that he will rule according to Islamic law, a surprising announcement in an area that has resisted the spread of Islamic militants who control much of the country's south.
Puntland President Gen. Addeh Museh did not cite a reason for his decision, but it comes amid increasing fears that the Council of Islamic Courts will try to seize his territory. The move also isolates Somalia's official government, which has watched helplessly as the Islamic movement steadily gained ground since June.
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Watchdog warns of rival Muslim factions and pressure from militants at jail
Tuesday November 21, 2006
A "potentially explosive" dispute between Muslim factions inside Britain's largest prison has been revealed by independent jail watchdogs.
The independent monitoring board at Wandsworth prison, south London, also warns today that some Muslim inmates are being pressured to adopt "more militant lifestyles and belief systems".
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Russia: Islamist Editor Jailed For Five Years
November 20, 2006
News from Interfax, Moscow Times and Reuters AlertNet reports that a journalist editor was jailed today for five years for writing on terrorist atrocities, while simultaneously praising those who carried out acts of terror.
Boris Stomakhin was editor of the monthly newspaper Radikalnaya Politika. He also wrote for the Islamist rebel website Kavkaz Center, which is distributed from a server in Lithuania. He had frequently referred to Russia's involvement in Chechnya as an "occupation". He had first been investigated in December 2003, but his trial did not begin until last month. The reason for this was that Stomakhin had gone into hiding, and was only arrested in March this year.
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Egyptian crackdown keeps Muslim Brotherhood in check
November 21 2006 02:00
Egypt has banned leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood from travelling outside the country and prevented its members from running in trades union and student elections in the latest crackdown since the outlawed group won a fifth of the seats in parliament a year ago, according to a senior Brotherhood official.
Mohamed Habib, the Brotherhood's deputy leader, said that about 100 members of the group were still in jail following successive waves of arrests this year.
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The government has received warnings that the Al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic Freedom Party is using preachers on Jerusalem's Temple Mount to call for the establishment of a world Islamic caliphate whose capital is Jerusalem.
The publications put out by the movement, which is active in Europe, specify the obligation to wage a world jihad against infidels and to enforce Islamic law.
One of the individuals associated with the Islamic Freedom Party is Sheikh Issam Amaira, who lives in Jerusalem. During Ramadan, a sign was placed near the Dome of the Rock reading "[creation of] the caliphate is a commandment from God," flanked by Islamic Freedom Party flags.
Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, has also spoken over the past year of Jerusalem as "the capital of the world Islamic caliphate."
In an interview with the Jordanian newspaper Al-Sabil a few days ago, Salah said all Jewish claims to the existance of the First and Second Temple are lies.