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Wahhabism and Shia Islam are key threats to Malaysia’s security and should be kept under close watch to ensure they do not lead to extremism, a Department of Islamic Development (Jakim) official has said. The National Security Council (NSC) put a group of clerics on its terror watch-list last week for preaching Wahhabism, a puritanical strain of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia ... Zamihan stressed that, if left alone, Wahhabism and Shia Islam could “sow the seeds of extremism as seen in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia and Chechnya”. He said certain parties were now actively promoting both teachings with financial...

EDITOR'S NOTE — This is another story in an occasional series examining the fault lines within Islam between the forces of moderation and extremism. The consequences of this fight that shook America on Sept. 11, 2001, reverberate today, and the struggle for Islam may be the defining conflict of our era. LOS ANGELES — UCLA law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl has a scholarly manner and speaks in soft tones. But listen as he tells his story. A Kuwaiti native, he was fascinated by militant Islam as a young man, then evolved into a moderate champion of democracy and suffered...

For Immediate ReleaseJul 15, 2002 Contact: Press Office202-646-5172 JW VICTORY: COURT ORDERS ASHCROFT JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO RELEASE DOCUMENTS ON MEETING WITH TERRORIST FRONT GROUP COURT SETS 30 DAY DEADLINE FOR DOCUMENTS CONCERNING ASHCROFT MEETING WITH HOLY LAND FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVE (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today reported that a federal court ordered the Bush Justice Department to release documents concerning contacts by Attorney General Ashcroft with representatives of the Holy Land Foundation, a front group shut down by the Bush Administration in the wake of Judicial Watch and other complaints about...