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| | The New York Review of Books: Iraq: Bush's Islamic Republic |
 | | He did not point out that the two leading parties in the Shiite coalition are pursuing an Islamic state in which the rights of women and religious minorities will be sharply curtailed, and that this kind of regime is already being put into place in parts of Iraq controlled by these parties. | | | By bringing freedom to Iraq, the Bush administration has allowed Iraq's Shiites to vote for pro-Iranian religious parties that seek to create—and are creating —an Islamic state. | | | Real power in Shiite Iraq rests, however, with two religious parties: Abdel Aziz al-Hakim's Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Dawa ("Call," in English) of Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari. |
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| | Crisis of Impunity - Afghanistan's Civil Wars |
| | In the late 1960s and early 1970s a number of Islamic organizations also formed at Kabul University which were opposed to the communists and all foreign interference in Afghanistan. | | | The Islamic Party of Afghanistan (Hizb-i Islami-yi Afghanistan) led by Gulbuddin Hikmatyar was favored by Pakistan throughout the war with the Soviet Union and later when it attempted to oust the Rabbani government. | | | The various parties that comprise the United Front also amassed a deplorable record of attacks on civilians between the fall of the Najibullah regime in 1992 and the Taliban's capture of Kabul in 1996. |
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| | The Iraqi National Conference Explained |
| | The parties that came out the big winners were: al-Daawa, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the Iraqi National Accord (INA), the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. | | | While various independent parties tried to get on the slate for the 100-seat National Council, in the end the major parties managed to dominate the process and win an overwhelming majority for themselves. | | | Iraqi Islamic Party: This group, established in the 1950s, has affiliations with the Muslim Brotherhood, a popular Sunni group based across the Middle East. |
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| | A central question will be the new government's relationship with predominantly Shiite Iran, since the main Shiite parties have close ties to it. | | | Former insurgent leader Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday issued a fiery attack on parliamentary politics, the day after Shia parties unveiled an electoral alliance that reportedly does not include his movement. | | | A Shiite and the main spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Shia majority cut in Iraqi poll as negotiations begin for new PM |
| | The poll results were delayed for several weeks after some parties complained of fraud and mounted street protests. | | | Sunni Arab parties have tripled their seats in Iraq's parliament, according to final results of last month's election announced yesterday, but the country's next prime minister is almost certain to be a Shia Islamist, with Adel Abdel Mahdi, a former finance minister well-regarded in Washington, as the favoured candidate. | | | Its main component, the Iraqi Islamic party, is similar to the Muslim Brotherhood in other Arab countries. |
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| | Islamic Dawa Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Islamic Dawa Party (Arabic حزب الدعوةالإسلامية Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya) is an Iraqi political organization. | | | In the lead-up to the January 2005 Iraqi election it cooperated with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and other Shi'ite groups in the United Iraqi Alliance. | | | It is one of the main Shi'ite parties. |
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| | :: Hizb ut-Tahrir - Britain :: |
| | Our vision of the Islamic Caliphate is one of an independent state with an elected and accountable ruler, an independent judiciary, political parties, the rule of law and equal rights for minority groups. | | | The use of these terms is intended to demonize legitimate Islamic values and beliefs, curtail legitimate political expression and challenge the influence of Islam on politics. | | | The party adheres to the Islamic Sharia in all aspects of its work, and takes its methodology from that which the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) used to establish the first Islamic state in Madinah. |
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| | United Shiites Set to Dominate Elections in Iraq |
| | “We are pushing the government and the political parties very hard so that we can have elections on time,” said Jawad Al-Maliki, a cultural historian who spent 25 years living in exile and is a senior figure in the large Islamic Dawa party. | | | But given Sistani’s role and the strong religious character of most of the parties involved, it is clear that Islam will have a key role. | | | The two Kurdish parties, dominated by Masood Barzani of the Kurdistan Democratic party, will put in a joint list and may yet form an alliance with Allawi. |
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| | Lebanonwire.com Iraq: Bush's Islamic Republic |
| | He did not point out that the two leading parties in the Shiite coalition are pursuing an Islamic state in which the rights of women and religious minorities will be sharply curtailed, and that this kind of regime is already being put into place in parts of Iraq controlled by these parties. | | | The Kurds insist it is the heart of Kurdistan, and believe a great injustice was done when Saddam expelled Kurds from the area and resettled Arabs in their place. | | | When Iraq's Governing Council was considering the TAL in February 2004, the Kurds came up with a simple proposal to protect their existing autonomy: the permanent constitution would come into effect if ratified by a majority of Iraqis, but would only be operative in Kurdistan if ratified by a majority of Kurdistan's voters. |
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| | Kurdish Democratic Party |
| | Those parties are: the Kurdistan Popular Democratic Party, the Kurdistan Socialist Party of Iraq, and the Popular Alliance of Socialist Kurdistan. | | | Kurdistan Democratic Party is one of the two main Kurdish parties, dating back to 1946, with a military presence in the Northern Iraq. | | | Absorbed three smaller Kurdish parties in August of 1993. |
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| | 156 Parties to Run in Iraq Elections |
| | Also among those approved was the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni group that had threatened to boycott the election to protest the U.S.-led offensive against Fallujah. | | | Islamic Dawa Party Iraq Organisation (Shi'ite Islamist) - Abdel Karim Anizi | | | Below is a list of the major political parties registered for the election and their leaders. |
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| | The Morning Journal - News - 02/23/2005 - Former exile is Shiite ticket's prime minister pick |
| | Al-Jaafari is a top leader in the Islamic Dawa Party, one of the main Shiite parties in the clergy-backed alliance. | | | ''We, as an Islamic party, we are not afraid of an Islamic government, but we are worried about a sectarian government,'' said Mohsen Abdel of the Iraqi Islamic Party. | | | Kurdish parties, who received 26 percent of the vote, or 75 seats, have said they want Jalal Talabani, a secular Sunni Kurd and leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, to be Iraq's next president. |
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| | But Jund insisted that the KIG cut its ties with the Kurdistan Regional Government and secular parties and that five of its members become members of the KIG's ruling council. | | | The peshmergas were taken prisoner by Jund Al Islam in the Halabja area of the Kurdish safe haven in northern Iraq during fighting with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of the two main Kurdish parties in the safe haven, which has set up the Kurdistan Regional Government. | | | In 1997 the Tehran Accord was signed in Iran between the PUK and the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan (IMK) which took part in the Kurdistan Regional Government. |
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| | IHT: News Analysis: Algeria's lessons for Arab democracy |
| | Before risking another round of multiparty elections, the military-backed government banned members of the Islamic Salvation Front from taking part in politics and rewrote the Constitution to prohibit the formation of political parties based on religious belief. | | | Benhadjar and his Islamist associates are pushing the government to allow them to form a new political party and the government may eventually acquiesce - if the Islamists renounce both violence and their goal of an Islamic state. | | | In a country that had not had any opposition political parties, fundamentalist Islamists had the popularity and organization to capitalize on the moment. |
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| | Islamic parties - encyclopedia article about Islamic parties. |
| | An Islamic party are those political parties A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. | | | Iraqi Islamic Party Iraqi Islamic Party (Hizb al-Islami al-Airaqi), a Sunni political party in Iraq. | | | PAS positions itself as an Islamist party that aims to establish Malaysia as an Islamist theocratic country based on Islamic legal theory derived from medieval jurists like Shafie as opposed to Barisan Nasional's Islam Hadhari, which is based on literal reading from the Quran. |
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| | Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation) |
| | Unlike more traditional Islamic parties, it is supranational and refuses to be involved in local politics. | | | In Uzbekistan alone, rights groups say, heavy prison sentences were handed down to an average of 50 Islamic activists a month in 1999 and 2000. | | | The aim is to bring the Muslims back to living an Islamic way of life in 'Dar al-Islam' [the land where the rules of Islam are being implemented, as opposed to the non-Islamic world] and in an Islamic society such that all life's affairs in society are administered according to the Shariah rules. |
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Special Untying the knot |
| | Accordingly, the Kurdish political entities were offered 25 per cent, the Islamic Shi'a parties and movements' quota was 33 per cent, the Sunni groups seven per cent, the Turkoman parties six per cent and three per cent for the Assyrians. | | | It brought together representatives of the various Iraqi factions, but was boycotted by the Islamic Daw'a Party. | | | The meeting was also attended by Mohamed Al- Haydri, representative of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq; Ibrahim Gafaari, representative of the Islamic Daw'a Party; Ibrahim Al-Mateeri, of the Islamic Action Organisation; and the Iraqi National Turkoman Party, which was represented by Muzafar Arsalan. |
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| | Asia Times: Tajikistan prepares for first poll since civil war |
| | Hikmatullo Sadullozoda of Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance Party - one of the groups which forms the UTO - does not believe elections should be held this year. | | | The crackdown against Islamic elements inside Uzbekistan, which began in late 1997, intensified recently following terrorist bombings in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, in February. | | | Real political opposition parties in Uzbekistan - such as the Erk (Liberty) and Birlik parties - remain banned and their leadership has lived outside the country for several years. |
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| | The party is comprised of several bureaus, the two most important of which are the political bureau and the military bureau.(23) Al-majlis al-fiqhi fills the role that the judicial oversight body was designed to do in al-Sadr's concept of Islamic government. | | | See Nazih Richani, Dilemmas of Democracy and Political Parties in Sectarian Societies: the Case of the PSP of Lebanon 1949-1996 (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998), p. | | | Certainly the emergence of SCIRI (Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq) was precipitated by differing concepts of the role of the faqih (jurisprudent) amongst al-Da'wa members. |
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| | United Iraqi Alliance [Definition] |
| | Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq The Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq or Iraqi Faili Islamic Gathering is one of two Iraqi political parties of Shi'ite Fayli Kurds, the other being the Fayli Kurd Islamic Union. | | | Islamic Dawa Party The Islamic Dawa Party is an Iraqi political organization. | | | Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) is an Iraqi political party; its support comes from the country's Shi'a Muslim community and from their fellow religionists in neighbouring Iran. |
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| | Crisis of Impunity - Afghanistan's Civil Wars |
| | In the late 1960s and early 1970s a number of Islamic organizations also formed at Kabul University which were opposed to the communists and all foreign interference in Afghanistan. | | | Islamic organizations that became the heart of the resistance based themselves in Pakistan and Iran. | | | In 1996, the groups opposed to the Taliban formed an alliance called the National Islamic United Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, commonly known as the United Front, which supports the ousted government, the Islamic State of Afghanistan (ISA). |
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| | Islam and Islamization in Sudan: Religion and Peacemaking: U.S. Institute of Peace |
| | The Islamists' aggressive drive leading to the dissolution of the Sudanese Communist Party in 1965 and the expulsion of its representatives from the constituent assembly and their relentless pressure on the traditional parties to adopt an "Islamic constitution" helped create the ferment that led to Nimeiri's coup. | | | The sharia cannot be at the heart of national consensus because of the discriminatory measures it establishes and because it is subject to conflicting interpretations by citizens who claim to be equally committed to Islam. | | | But it would of course be naive to accept Turabi's implicit claim - that the Islamists are not there at the heart of the current regime determining its orientation and shaping its policies. |
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| | The United Iraqi Alliance (also translated as Unified Iraqi Coalition), e.g., groups a large number of religious Shiite parties, and is likely to attract a majority of the Shiite vote. | | | Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq | | | The final results of the number of lists of candidates parties, political entities, and coalitions to compete in the elections for the National Assembly, the Kurdistan National Council, and the Provincial Councils that will take place on January 30, 2005, were announced [last month]. |
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Region The politics of transition |
| | Allawi, who is no stranger to the security structure, chairing as he did the security affairs committee of the recently dissolved Interim Governing Council (IGC), announced that nine Iraqi parties have agreed to dissolve their armed militia. | | | But sources close to Al-Bayt Al-Shi'i (the Shia house), an umbrella organisation of 20 Shia political parties, told Al- Ahram Weekly that during last week's cease-fire negotiations with Al-Sadr, it was agreed that his militia will dissolve and most of them will be integrated within state security apparatuses. | | | In a press conference held on Monday, Allawi outlined a new security strategy to regain control over the security apparatuses. |
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| | Shiites end talks with al-Sistani group |
| | The Shiite Political Council is a coalition of 38 political parties including the Iraqi National Congress of Ahmad Chalabi, the former Pentagon-backed exile, Hezbollah, the Islamic Democratic party and the Free Republicans. | | | "The Shiite Political Council is a coalition of 38 political parties including the Iraqi National Congress,...Hezbollah, the Islamic Democratic party and the Free Republicans. | | | BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A group of 38 Shiite Muslim political parties broke off negotiations Tuesday with backers of Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, claiming a candidate list under discussion was dominated by religious extremists. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East Who's who in Iraq: Daawa Party |
| | The Daawa Party is one of the two biggest Shia political parties in Iraq. | | | Ezzedine Salim, leader of a breakaway faction of the party which drew most of its support from his hometown of Basra, was killed in a bombing in May 2004 when he held the rotating presidency of the Governing Council. | | | Analysts say the Daawa Party continues to suffer from fragmentation, and may have lost some support because of its co-operation with the occupying forces in Iraq. |
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| | Sudanese Political Parties |
| | Originally founded in 1945, the Umma was the political organization of the Islamic Ansar movement. | | | Sadiq al Mahdi indicated approval of political positions adopted by the Umma Party during his detention, including joining with the SPLM and northern political parties in the National Democratic Alliance opposition grouping. | | | By late 1988, however, other DUP leaders had persuaded Mirghani that the Islamic law issue was the main obstacle to a peaceful resolution of the civil war. |
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| | The main opposition parties boycotted the contest, enabling President Zeroual to secure a clear victory of 67%, amid a 75% turnout, which had been achieved despite Islamic militant calls for voters to boycott the polls. | | | Talks were opened with the Islamic fundamentalists in an attempt to resolve the political deadlock, but the militant campaign continued unabated, and the talks collapsed in November. | | | A multiparty system was adopted in 1989 but after the Islamic fundamentalist Front for Salvation won the first round of assembly elections in December 1991, the electoral process was suspended, a state of emergency declared, and power assumed by an emergency military body, the high security council. |
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| | Unlike other Islamic opposition parties within Iraq, the Kurdish movement is from the Sunni branch of Islam. | | | In 1999 the movement merged with another armed Islamic group, the Islamic Al-Nahdah (Renaissance) Movement, to form the Islamic Unity Movement in Kurdistan, but the original name of the movement was readopted after a split in 2001. | | | Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU), known as Yekgirtu, is the largest Islamic organisation in Iraqi Kurdistan. |
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