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Fitna Instructor
In Arabic, the word fitna connotes war within Islam. Sociologist Gilles Kepel says that rather than inspiring a popular Muslim uprising against corrupt governments, Al Qaeda and its allies have provoked a state of fitna, a civil war within the Islamic world.
Code Blue
Leonard Lance, New Jersey State Senator, (R) District 23
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Ellen Karcher, New Jersey State Senator, (D) District 12, on what to expect from newly appointed New Jersey Governor Richard Codey
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Chronicle of Higher Compensation
Sam Dillon, National Education Correspondent at the New York Times, on the growth of University president compensation
» New York Times on the issue
Could We Actually Be Winning The War On Extreme Political Islam?
Gilles Kepel, professor and chair of middle east studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and author, The War For Muslim Minds: Islam and the West (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004), says we may be doing better than we think
» Gilles Kippel
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