Islamic Leaders' Role in Saudi Ballot Criticized
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Dozens of losing candidates in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections complained Saturday that the winners in the capital, Riyadh, unfairly used the endorsement of influential Islamic leaders to secure victory.
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Riyadh kicks off Saudi Arabia's first nationwide municipal elections, but women are banned from the polls.
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A man identified as Osama bin Laden (news - bio) bitterly criticized the Saudi regime in an audiotape posted on an Islamic Web site on Thursday.
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Major American Muslim groups gave what they called a "qualified endorsement" Thursday to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, urging Muslims to vote for him while calling his platform on civil rights inadequate.
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A senior Saudi prince says he plans to form a political party and criticises other royals for blocking reform.
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For the first time in 41 years, Saudi Arabia is allowing local elections. The ruling family's goal, political analysts and diplomats say, is to determine whether a more open government might help defuse a rising armed threat by Muslim  militants in the kingdom.
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Friction between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in this strategic Persian Gulf kingdom, which is holding its second parliamentary elections in three decades, has clouded the voting set here for Saturday.
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Riyadh kicks off Saudi Arabia's first nationwide municipal elections, but women are banned.
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Calling for a new line of attack in Saudi Arabia
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Fundamentalist Islamic leaders in Saudi Arabia are telling militants intent on fighting "infidels" to join the insurgency in Iraq instead of taking up Osama bin Laden's call to oust the Saudi royal family at home, say Saudi dissidents who monitor theological edicts coming out of the kingdom.
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TERROR boss Osama bin Laden has told Iraqis in a new taped message that those taking part in elections would be infidels. And the Sunni minority&#39;s main party is threatening a boycott, placing the landmark vote next month under increasing pressure.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - Pakistani voters are expected to succeed where President Pervez Musharraf has failed, pushing back the Islamist tide and throwing out of power political clerics governing Pakistan's violent northwest.
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Iraq's leading Sunni Muslim clerics said Wednesday the country's landmark elections lacked legitimacy because large numbers of Sunnis did not participate in the balloting, which the religious leaders had asked them to boycott.
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With more than 1,200 Muslims and Arab-Americans taken into custody after the Sept. 11 attacks, and a U.S.-led war raging in Iraq, many Muslims oppose George Bush in the November presidential election. But their voting for John Kerry is not a slam-dunk, either.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury's Sharia law comments attract criticism from senior Anglicans.
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Saudi Arabia said Friday it has advised the nation&#39;s imams they should condemn terrorism and terrorists in prayers during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
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Islamist candidates swept to victory in Bahrain's parliamentary election, splitting the vote between hardline Shiite and Sunni Muslims while female and liberal candidates fared poorly in the U.S.-allied kingdom, preliminary results showed Sunday.