He even appealed directly to Trump's art of the deal, suggesting they trade a cleric for a cleric.
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US cleric Erdogan has accused U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has many followers in Turkey, of masterminding the coup plot.
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A representative of cleric Fethullah Gulen, Alp Aslandogan, denied any link and said the exiled cleric condemned the murder as a "heinous act".
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Sunday condemned the execution of Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia while another leading cleric said he was organizing demonstrations in Baghdad and the southern city of Najaf.
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If the CIA did not render the cleric to Egypt, Spataro said, the cleric would have been prosecuted and convicted, and would be in prison today.
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Erdoğan, in particular, has blamed a U.S.-based cleric, Fethullah Gülen, for being responsible for the coup attempt and said the arrests were on suspected collaborators to the cleric.
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The archbishop had been deeply influenced by a Jesuit cleric who had worked among the poor and been murdered in 1977; the more senior cleric eventually shared his colleague's fate.
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Turkey's president claims the cleric orchestrated a 2016 coup attempt.
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The cleric, Fethullah Gulen, denies masterminding the 2016 coup attempt.
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He picked Islamic cleric Amin, 76, as his running mate.
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Turkey has sought the extradition of the cleric, Fethullah Gulen.
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"The government is not serious about sharia," grumbles a cleric.
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Abdurrahman is the highest ranked cleric associated with the group.
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"I will never go back home," a Rohingya cleric said.
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They carried a coffin symbolizing a funeral for the cleric.
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One Salafi cleric has a website with a million followers.
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After all, what would this group be without its cleric?
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The police assaulted worshippers with batons, according to Ramees, the cleric.
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The cleric was last reported to be living in rural Pennsylvania.
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Say, for example, you create a human cleric as your character.
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Often, school officials respond by inviting a cleric to conduct exorcisms.
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Turkey also wants the return of a prominent cleric, Adil Oksuz.
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It promptly eats their cleric, but then they're teleported to safety.
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Moqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Shi'ite cleric, called for angry protests.
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The cleric, who denies orchestrating the coup attempt, lives in Pennsylvania.
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The protest followed Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.
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Erdoğan has blamed Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen for the coup attempt.
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The assailant then used the knife against the cleric and others.
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Still, the cleric won't be leaving the United States anytime soon.
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The repressive moves angered the influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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The ahongs [Hui term for cleric] will help determine an amount.
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The protests were led by Muqtada Sadr, a powerful Shiite cleric.
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The accused cleric was soon faced with at least two trials.
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He picked Islamic cleric Ma'ruf Amin, 76, as his running mate.
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In another race, a cleric linked to the Taliban was defeated.
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A local cleric, Muhammad Ishaq, filed the complaint against Mr. Malhi.
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One cleric claimed — with no evidence — that driving harmed women's ovaries.
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This judge, this cleric, was talking about God and the Prophet.
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"Nor is the selection of a moderate cleric as successor likely."
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The cleric was killed in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen.
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Then there was Lebanon and the matter of the missing Shiite cleric.
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Iran also faces a challenge from Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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That cleric has been a target of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Tensions have risen since Saudi Arabia executed Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
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An Iraqi man celebrates with a picture of Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr.
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"Long live Pakistan," the cleric said, as worshippers roared back in approval.
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Turkey accuses cleric Gulen of orchestrating the abortive putsch in July 2016.
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The already elderly cleric is unlikely to be in the running then.
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Gulen, a former ally and cleric, now resides in exile in Pennsylvania.
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Ankara accuses U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen of masterminding the coup.
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Ankara blames Gulen for the coup attempt, while the cleric denies involvement.
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The newspaper is linked to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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The protests followed Saudi Arabia's execution of Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
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In January it executed a prominent Shia cleric, inflaming relations with Iran.
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Turkey has repeatedly called on the United States to extradite the cleric.
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Both became devoted students of Abdullah al-Faisal, a radical Jamaican cleric.
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"It's a very rare thing to see a cleric killed," he said.
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The mosque is known as the birthplace of an important Sufi cleric.
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President Hassan Rouhani, a cleric, stopped in the day before I did.
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The populist Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr now openly opposes Iranian dominance.
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"They did a pre-emptive strike," one cleric said of the arrests.
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President Joko Widodo is running with the senior Islamic cleric Mar'uf Amin.
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The cleric, Fethullah Gulen, denies the charge and has condemned the coup.
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A populist cleric who helped install the premier called for his removal.
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Turkey has said it is putting together an extradition request for the cleric.
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The cleric, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, denies the charges.
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The third, a cleric, Ebrahim Raisi, looks robotic in front of the cameras.
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The disappearance of the beloved cleric touched off a search spanning multiple jurisdictions.
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Widodos running mate, Muslim cleric Ma'ruf Amin, called a for a peaceful vote.
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The following year they beheaded Nimr al-Nimr, a rowdy Saudi Shia cleric.
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Tensions have risen since Saudi Arabia executed a Shi'ite cleric, Nimr al-Nimr.
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His main challenger is Ebrahim Raisi, a cleric who oversees Iran's largest charity.
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Yesterday he cast his angry gaze toward the U.S. and cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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Hardline cleric Raisi lost the 2017 presidential election, when Rouhani was re-elected.
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"We're entering an age of post-colonialism," says a Christian cleric from Cairo.
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Fetullah Gulen is a US-based cleric who was once allied with Erdogan.
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Though it was the killing of a Shi-ite cleric in the Jan.
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A leading Deobandi cleric, Mohammad Khan Sherani, backed the execution of Mr Qadri.
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The cleric has denied involvement in the coup or plotting against the state.
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No, clericalism is the abuse of the office of cleric for sinful purposes.
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The protesters were mostly supporters of the powerful Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
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But prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr was also among those executed.
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Al Rawdah mosque is known as the birthplace of an important Sufi cleric.
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Bin Abdullah Al Sheikh, the country's most senior cleric, echoed the same line
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A senior cleric with ministerial rank also came, but no top royals appeared.
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He has accused an influential U.S.-based Muslim cleric of masterminding the coup.
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She didn't want her to do any interviews or talk about the cleric.
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the cleric who led the Islamic Revolution, died in 1989.
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They twice attacked the home of a beloved cleric, Sheikh Hussein el-Greir.
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"Five thousand years," she volunteered, repeating the date even after the cleric shushed her.
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The execution of a dissident cleric in Saudi Arabia is both unfortunate and tragic.
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If you've covered MidEast, you know killing a cleric often has major ramifications. pic.twitter.
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Awlaki, a cleric, was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
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The atheist exile's defiance is echoed by the Muslim cleric in the Bangladeshi capital.
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The Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, was among 47 people who were executed.
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Reports suggest he was a cleric until the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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The attack came after Riyadh's execution of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric on Saturday .
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The 75-year-old Muslim cleric is likely to be Indonesia's next vice-president.
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The cleric has spent nearly two years in solitary confinement, his son told CNN.
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Ankara has blamed Gulen, a Muslim cleric, for orchestrating a failed coup last July.
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If he can steady the boat, says the cleric, it will be a miracle.
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He charges that followers of a U.S.-based cleric were behind the coup attempt.
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Ankara has blamed the network of the cleric Fethullah Gulen for the failed coup.
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This time, she says, Rouhani has one serious opponent: the conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi.
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Influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Sunday American citizens should leave Iraq.
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An undeclared battle for the succession to the 85-year-old cleric has started.
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In July, Iraq's Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr paid a rare visit to Saudi Arabia.
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His lawyer denied that the cleric had fled Indonesia because of his legal troubles.
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"Bosnian Muslims and Jews are one body," said Bosnia's Muslim top cleric Husein Kavazovic.
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Ankara blames the supporters of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for the coup attempt.
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In 1978, Lebanese Shia cleric Musa al-Sadr disappeared on a trip to Libya.
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During the interview, Father Nasrallah quoted Moussa al-Sadr, a prominent Lebanese Shiite cleric.
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U.S. officials have said the courts need sufficient evidence to extradite the elderly cleric.
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The cleric, Fethullah Gulen, has denied any involvement in and denounced the coup plot.
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When the suspect is a cleric, like Imam Bengharsa, the matter is especially delicate.
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"I'm going to teach you a lesson," the cleric says as he walks away.
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Cleric Gulen denies involvement in the attempted putsch in which 250 people were killed.
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"Society in general at this time is very scared," said another cleric in Buraida.
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YouTube still hosts videos of Ahmad Musa Jibril, an Islamic cleric from Dearborn, Mich.
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A serious-minded Muslim cleric, he is the head of his hamlet, Orong Nagasari.
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In one village, he found a lone Shiite cleric who was trying to help.
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His supporters say the deportation order has effectively kept the cleric under house arrest.
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Mr. Dal Co and Cardinal Ravasi spoke often, but the cleric did not interfere.
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At issue is Saudi Arabia's execution earlier this month of a prominent Shiite cleric.
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A cleric arrives to lead the faithful, this, two mornings before Eid al-Adha.
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The Turkish government accuses the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of trying to overthrow its government.
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One cleric in Qom even blamed Trump for the virus's spread in the city.
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The cleric, Abdelfattah Mourou, 71, came in third with 12.9 percent of votes cast.
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The head cleric of the mosque and a police officer were among those killed.
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Erdogan has accused U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen of masterminding the failed coup.
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"I wish it all goes well, I wish you the best," the cleric wrote.
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Turkey says the coup was orchestrated by a U.S.-based Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen.
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Pell was previously Australia's most senior cleric before his move to Rome in 2014.
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He has been described by supporters as a moderate Muslim cleric who champions interfaith dialogue.
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A legal adviser to the president had said the cleric would be granted unconditional release.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has expressed support for the protests.
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U.S-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Turkish officials blame for the 2016 failed coup attempt.
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One is a Catholic cleric who believes abortion and same-sex marriage are a sin.
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Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist cleric revered in the shantytowns, emerged as the front-runner.
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The archbishop is the highest-ranking Catholic cleric to be tried on sex-abuse charges.
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The cleric said that the rebels would have taken Duterte's deal to end the siege.
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Gullen, a Muslim cleric and former Erdogan political ally, currently resides in the United States.
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They also worked on research, informational materials and a video on the cleric, Fethullah Gulen.
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A senior Shi'ite cleric, Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani, denounced the gathering and its participants on Sunday.
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Ties worsened further when Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia executed a Shi'ite cleric a year ago.
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The cleric also backed the disputed re-election of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.
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Several days later he was arrested along with a Brotherhood cleric who had denounced violence.
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Gulen has been described by supporters as a moderate Muslim cleric who champions interfaith dialogue.
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Iranian cleric Abolfazl Najafi Tehrani criticised the historic treatment of the Kurds across the region.
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The al Rawdah Sufi mosque is known as the birthplace of an important Sufi cleric.
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Turkey blames Gulen for the unrest, but the cleric denies involvement in the coup attempt.
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Turkish authorities blame the coup on U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his supporters.
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Last month, during Ramadan, she posted photos of herself with Mufti Abdul Qavi, a cleric.
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One Saudi cleric made news in 2013 for claiming that driving risked damaging women's ovaries.
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Ankara blames the attempted coup on U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his followers.
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Last week Ebrahim Raisi, conservative cleric and close ally of Khamenei, also announced his candidacy.
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Anger over how the cleric had been treated exploded in deadly protests outside his home.
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Rouhani trounced a hard-line cleric, Ebrahim Raisi, favored by the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
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The moderate incumbent, Hassan Rouhani, is facing off against a hard-line cleric, Ebrahim Raisi.
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Exiled cleric and top Erdoğan dissident Fethullah Gülen serves as honorary chair of the group.
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They have executed dozens of men on terrorism charges, including a prominent dissident Shiite cleric.
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What would have happened if the cleric who led that group had been moderate instead?
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Yahya Staquf, a prominent Muslim cleric, does not understand how such things can be halal.
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"I felt insecure when I heard of the attack," said Mozafar Amiri, 48, a cleric.
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Mr. Mohsen Shahroudi, a midlevel cleric, said the revolution had brought Iran freedom and evolution.
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A Muslim cleric stands ready to oversee the incantation that ensures each carcass will be halal.
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Ankara says U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen masterminded the failed putsch on July 15, 2016.
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In 93, he moved to San Diego, where he took up a job as a cleric.
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Another victim was a prominent Tajik cleric convicted on charges of calls to overthrow the government.
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Zaki stood up to radical cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, who had refused to condemn the attack.
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The government says such measures are necessary to root out supporters of the cleric, Fethullah Gulen.
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It was placed in receivership in October 2015 for alleged links to Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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Archbishop Kliment, a cleric of the Moscow-aligned patriarchate, frets about threats against the branch's churches.
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Those killed were Thai Muslims returning from a religious ceremony to honor a famous local cleric.
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Frustrations had started simmering between Erdogan and his one-time ally, a cleric named Fethullah Gulen.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani described the executions as an "unjust aggression".
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The four attackers, who were also killed, had known ties to jailed radical cleric Aman Abdurrahman.
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Yet Khadim Rizvi, a Muslim cleric, was not worried about being forcibly evicted by the army.
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Tehran has skilfully manipulated Iraqi politics in the past, and the cleric has to tread carefully.
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The cleric, previously critical of the Vatican, now said unity within the Church was the priority.
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During the 2011 Arab Spring, the kingdom's monarchy began to eye the cleric with suspicion again.
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He was more interested in having the cleric rally his large audiences on the prince's behalf.
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Syed Sufi Gardezi, the most senior Shiite cleric in Gardez, put the death toll at 30.
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Turkey blames a U.S.-based Muslim cleric and his network of followers for the failed coup.
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Reform-minded supporters recognize that Rouhani isn't perfect -- he too, after all, is also a cleric.
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A senior Iranian cleric has said 'rioters' participating in mass protests in Iran should be executed.
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That includes the May 31 airstrike that killed Turki Al Bin'ali, the chief cleric of ISIS.
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Ankara blames the network of the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen for the attempted putsch.
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They learned the Saudi police shot the cleric several times in the leg before his arrest.
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However, the cleric, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, said he would appeal the decision.
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Some 50,000 people have been formally arrested in court cases targeting supporters of cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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They also have the blessing of Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
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Roughly 50,000 people have been arrested in connection with the probe of the US-based cleric.
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More recently, Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shiite cleric, deeply angering Iran and igniting sectarian tensions.
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The powerful cleric had been a member of the body charged with appointing the supreme leader.
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In the spring of 2016, Baloch appeared on a comedy show with the cleric Abdul Qavi.
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Turkish authorities blame the coup attempt on U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his supporters.
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Turkey blames the network of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric who denies all involvement.
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His uncle is Bernardino Pinera, 102, a retired cleric who is the oldest living Catholic bishop.
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Tensions between the two escalated after Riyadh's execution of a top Shia cleric at the weekend.
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The firebrand cleric Moktada al-Sadr said he would suspend vast protests against his political opponents.
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Here's how, between 2016 and 2017, this all fell into place around an obscure Turkish cleric.
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Erdogan defeated the uprising and blamed Gülen and his followers, demanding the US extradite the cleric.
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It says it is willing to hold the execution without a religious cleric in the room.
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"This is not a system that will be shaken by these stupid evils," a cleric said.
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"Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching and Ku Klux Klan," the cleric said.
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It was named in honor of South African Anglican cleric and human rights activist Desmond Tutu.
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"Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching and Ku Klux Klan," the cleric says.
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ONE Saudi cleric thundered that letting women drive would lead to immorality and a lack of virgins.
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Instead, Wilson&aposs legal team argued for the cleric to be released on a good behavior bond.
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The extremist jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike six years ago.
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After all, what damage could a blind, aging cleric do from his cell in a federal penitentiary?
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Italian courts convicted 22 CIA officers in absentia in 2009 of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric in Milan.
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Judiciary spokesperson Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, a hardline cleric, smeared some of the protesters as drug abusers.
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His representative, cleric Abdolhossein Moezi, told state TV after visiting Kermanshah province that more relief was needed.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, on Friday renewed a call to spare civilians.
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It also accuses Washington of sheltering a cleric it blames for plotting a failed coup in 2016.
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Haydon acknowledged that Butt had links to al Muhajiroun, a banned group headed by cleric Anjem Choudary.
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The authorities in Bahrain violently broke up a sit-in by supporters of a prominent Shia cleric.
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But they know the cleric is often cautious and are prepared to go on without his blessing.
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They were furious that a populist Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, won the poll, held in May.
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And it is the seat of the most popular Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani (pictured).
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"Velayat-e faqih is a dictatorial regime," says Saleh al-Hakeem, a globe-trotting cleric from Najaf.
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Erdogan wants cleric Fethullah Gulen, who's in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, extradited as soon as possible.
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Trump, like other presidents before him, has so far refused to hand the cleric over to Ankara.
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Wilson, dressed in the black suit of a cleric, showed no emotion when the decision was announced.
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It says U.S.-based cleric Fetullah Gulen was the mastermind of the coup, but Gulen denies involvement.
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He became the highest-ranking Catholic cleric ever convicted in a criminal court of abuse cover-up.
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No longer the firebrand cleric, the middle-aged preacher preferred to speak casually into a phone camera.
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Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran on Sunday after the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.
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Turkey closed down 215.2 universities for alleged ties to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen last year.
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Or take Sunday Adelaja, a Nigerian-born cleric who is a player in the affairs of Ukraine.
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President Tayyip Erdogan has said Gulen's movement was behind the assassination, a charge the cleric has denied.
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His closest opponent is Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative cleric who doesn't think the deal is all that.
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The protests erupted following the Saudi execution of a leading Shi'ite cleric that outraged predominantly Shi'ite Iranians.
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Cleric and politician Muqtada al-Sadr also called on Shia-dominated government to shut the embassy down.
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Beyond that, the cleric plans to challenge the prime minister in a no- confidence vote in parliament.
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SAUDI ARABIA'S most senior cleric has bluntly said that that Iranian Shias are not Muslim at all.
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Ankara has also accused Gulen of orchestrating a failed coup in July, a charge the cleric denies.
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"Do I have an alternative?" said Yasser Borhami, a cleric in Nour's parent organization, the Salafi Calling.
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Salman, a Shi'ite Muslim cleric, was sentenced in June to four years in prison for inciting unrest.
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Erdogan, however, firmly called for Gulen's extradition, claiming that the cleric manages a terrorist organization from Pennsylvania.
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Topuz was charged for having links with Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in exile in Pennsylvania.
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Carson also was questioned about recent mass executions in Saudi Arabia that included a prominent Shiite cleric.
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The lawmakers, including a Shiite cleric, held the flaming flag alight as their colleagues joined their chants.
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One of the root causes of U.S.-Turkish tensions has been a Muslim cleric living in Pennsylvania.
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That conspiracy was blamed on followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric in self-exile in Pennsylvania.
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Saudi Arabia executed Nimr al-Nimr last weekend after the Shiite cleric repeatedly criticized the Saudi monarchy.
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The evidence against him: A book written by the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, was found in his office.
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His rival, the midlevel cleric Ebrahim Raisi is a close ally of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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The paper has been associated with Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric who lives in exile in Pennsylvania.
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Ankara also accuses Washington of sheltering a cleric it blames for plotting a failed coup in 2016.
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The attempted coup was disguised as an exposé by a conscience-stricken cleric, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.
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With Mr. Stone, even the most conservative cleric would have been hard-pressed to find something objectionable.
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Turkey has said the coup was led by a renegade cleric based in Pennsylvania named Fethullah Gülen.
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The community was settled in the 1980s by followers of a Pakistani cleric, Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani.
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Separately, a prominent Iranian cleric said Friday that the time had come for Israel to say goodbye.
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Media reports said one of the attackers had watched the inflammatory YouTube sermons of an Islamic cleric.
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Ankara has accused U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen of masterminding the attempted putsch in July 2016.
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The cleric has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States for more than a decade.
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Even the reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi, an octogenarian who is confined under permanent house arrest, issued condolences.
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Iran refrained from sending the troops when a local Sunni cleric stepped in and resolved the situation.
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A senior Islamic State cleric has the authority to distribute female captives among its fighters, it said.
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"Rouhani faces serious pressures," said Fazel Meybodi, a Shiite cleric from Qom who supports change in Iran.
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"Ahmadinejad registering is a big plus for Rouhani," said Hossein Ghayoumi, a cleric who supports Mr. Rouhani.
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The state said it was willing to hold the execution without a religious cleric in the room.
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Tension also surrounds Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has been living in exile in the United States.
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Was he radicalized through the Internet or by radical Islamists in the UK, possibly a radical cleric?
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He lost his father at the age of five, but followed his footsteps to become a cleric.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab gunmen and a suicide car bomber struck a religious center in central Somalia on Monday, killing a cleric and at least 14 of his followers, a police officer said The Islamist militant group had accused the cleric of insulting Prophet Mohamed, which he denied.
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Security experts have raised concerns that a harsh penalty for the cleric could trigger retaliatory attacks by followers.
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Hollande urged Iran and Saudi Arabia to reduce tensions which flared after Riyadh executed a prominent Shi'ite cleric.
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The government blames followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for masterminding the coup, but he denies involvement.
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CCTV footage shows police in riot gear striking Ramees and another cleric, M.S.M Nizam, four times with batons.
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Tensions between the two regional rivals escalated this month after the Saudi execution of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric.
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One of them was the 8-year-old daughter of U.S.-born al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
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He published a video address to Mirziyoyev on Facebook last week, an unusual move for an Uzbek cleric.
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Turkey blames followers of U.S.-based exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen for the July 15-16 attempted coup.
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Turkey blamed the exiled Muslim cleric and political activist for a botched coup attempt against him in 2016.
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Meanwhile, Faruqi's father, Sheikh Nur Islam Faruqi, was a well known Muslim cleric who preached peace and tolerance.
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Mindong's underground bishop, Guo Xijin, is being forced to step aside in favour of a state-approved cleric.
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Even Muqtada al-Sadr, a lowly but firebrand Iraqi cleric, renamed his Mahdi Army the Brigades of Peace.
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Jokowi himself has chosen a conservative Muslim cleric as his running mate to boost his own religious credentials.
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Decades later, Dhari's grandson ascended to prominence as a Sunni cleric and a vocal opponent of U.S. actions.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most powerful cleric in Iraq, has also expressed solidarity with the demonstrators.
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An influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and politician, Moktada al-Sadr, has defied Iran and sided with the protesters.
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Saudi Arabia's execution of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric over the weekend provoked protests among Shi'ites across the region.
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The cleric, a former ally turned political foe of President Tayyip Erdogan, has denied involvement in the coup.
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Fethullah Gulen, the Turkish cleric who Erdogan blames for trying to topple his government, further promoted that idea.
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Many of those who turned out supported Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative cleric, in the presidential election last May.
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Indonesian prosecutors are demanding a death sentence for radical Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman for his role in attacks.
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In January Iranian protesters torched the Saudi embassy in Tehran following Saudi's execution of an influential Shia cleric.
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Turkey formally requests extradition of cleric from U.S. Thousands arrested The government's response to the coup was swift.
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The firebrand Shia cleric (pictured) directed his supporters to attack the American troops who invaded Iraq in 2003.
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I, like millions of others, immediately felt a connection to the Argentine cleric who shares my first name.
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The cleric always kept his own relationship with the EOKA fighters in a kind of mysterious grey area.
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It's a Shia town of about 25,000 people, formerly home to executed Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al Nimr.
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There was tight security at parliament for his swearing-in alongside his vice president, Islamic cleric Ma'ruf Amin.
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A week earlier the ministry rejected the candidacy of a conservative cleric from Marrakech allied to the PJD.
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The closer ties survived their first test in January, when Saudi Arabia executed Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
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Erdogan accuses U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has many followers in Turkey, of masterminding the plot.
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But Riyadh's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and Iranian recriminations have brought tensions to a new low.
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His closest opponent is conservative cleric Raisi, who has cast doubt on the benefits of the nuclear deal.
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To bolster his religious credentials, Widodo has picked as his running mate a senior Muslim cleric, Ma'ruf Amin.
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Artan was a fan of radical Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the attack was investigated as terrorism.
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Rouhani, a moderate cleric, negotiated the landmark nuclear deal with the U.S. and other world powers in 224.
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Saudi Arabia executed 47 people on terrorism charges, including Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shia Muslim cleric.
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At Qal'bu Maryam, there is no imam, as the cleric who conducts worship at a mosque is called.
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Those dismissed were described as having links to cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan turned enemy.
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I am not a cleric, and I am not here to argue over what religion says about sex.
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The Turkish government has accused a U.S.-based Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of orchestrating the failed coup attempt.
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The Turkish government has blamed US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the attempted uprising in July 2016.
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A Muslim cleric in Texas has reportedly been ordered to pay $2.55 million in a sexual misconduct lawsuit.
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Ankara accuses Gulen of orchestrating an attempted coup in Turkey last July, an accusation which the cleric denies.
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Another prominent cleric issued a clarification that he had not in fact forbidden all-you-can-eat buffets.
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Among Jokowi's new inner circle is the conservative cleric Ma'ruf Amin, who will be his vice-presidential candidate.
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"We did not have, at the time, a person who was accusing him as a cleric," Hernandez said.
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"We will not digest this step of the government," said Raghib Naeemi, a prominent cleric based in Lahore.
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In the first two trials, prosecutors attempted to link the fiery cleric to the 2002 and 2003 blasts.
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In 215, Iranian voters delivered the presidency to Hassan Rouhani, a more moderate cleric, by a wide margin.
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The Islamic State said the cleric, said to be 100 years old, had been killed for practicing witchcraft.
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Another was a prominent Tajik cleric who had been convicted on charges of calls to overthrow the government.
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But some of Mr. Smyth's victims were skeptical, noting that the cleric who wrote the report, the Rev.
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During the presidential election in April, he picked as his running mate Ma'ruf Amin, a prominent Islamic cleric.
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The message repurposed words used by bin Laden and the American al Qaeda terrorist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
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There was tight security at parliament for his swearing in alongside his vice president, Islamic cleric Ma'ruf Amin.
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Posting with the hashtag #MeToo, Khan said that she was also abused by a Maulvi, a religious cleric.
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The city is home to fundamentalist terror network Jemaah Islamiah (JI), founded by jailed cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.
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No senior diplomat was seen at Mr. Abdullah's ceremony next door, which was administered by a religious cleric.
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The cleric, Shahab Moradi, made the comment in a live TV interview on Iran&aposs IRIB Ofogh channel.
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The change was reported earlier by Reuters, following a report by the New York Times on Monday saying YouTube had drastically reduced content showing sermons by jihadist cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki — eliminating videos where the radical cleric is not directly preaching hate but talking on various, ostensibly non-violent topics.
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" The cleric said he stood with the people, boycotting all politicians except "those who seek reform with full transparency.
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He has picked an influential Muslim cleric as his running mate in an attempt to undercut his strongman rival.
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Tension has increased since Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shi'ite cleric convicted of inciting violence, was executed in 2016.
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In a move to shore up Muslim support this time, Widodo picked for his running mate an Islamic cleric.
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Erdogan has accused U.S.-based, Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the coup, in which 250 people were killed.
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College graduates are most likely to want to allow both the racist and the anti-American cleric to speak.
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Tensions have increased since Nimr al-Nimr, a Shi'ite cleric convicted of inciting violence, was executed a year ago.
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Ankara has also been frustrated by what it sees as Washington's reluctance to extradite the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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And Turkey is demanding the Obama administration hand over a US-based Islamic cleric it says instigated the uprising.
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The 89-year-old cleric steered clear of politics under Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein who oppressed the Shi'ite majority.
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Dhiaa al-Asadi, a top aide to Sadr, said the cleric had not meant for followers to attack protesters.
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And at the center of all this is Gulen, a reclusive cleric who leads a popular movement called Hizmet.
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Mr Alfeyev, an Oxford-educated Russian cleric, said after the conversation that he felt optimistic about Russo-American ties.
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One such cleric was Father Sergei Ovsyannikov (pictured), the long-standing pastor of a flourishing Russian community in Amsterdam.
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The attack followed the Saudi execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, which outraged predominately Shi'ite Iran.
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IRAN CLERIC JAZAYERI SAYS BRITAIN SHOULD BE "SCARED" OF TEHRAN'S REACTION TO ILLEGAL SEIZURE OF ITS OIL TANKER - FARS
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Jokowi seems to have improved his showing marginally by picking Ma'ruf Amin, a Muslim cleric, as his running-mate.
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Esmail Azarinejad, a poor cleric, drives around neglected villages distributing children's books from the back of his old Peugeot.
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The cleric has lived in self-imposed exile since 1999, denied the charges against him and condemned the coup.
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Before being flown to Egypt, the cleric was taken to a military base where he claims he was tortured.
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Two months later the drama's lead actor was sued for contempt of religion over his portrayal of a cleric.
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Saudi execution of Shia cleric threatens to deepen regional sectarian crisis What's the deal between these two countries anyway?
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This latest row between the two Mideast powerhouses started over the weekend when the Saudis executed a Shiite cleric.
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He will meet top Iraqi Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, Iranian state media said.
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In eastern Laghman province, next to Kabul, a bomb blast killed a cleric and two others, an official said.
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A prominent Saudi cleric has prohibited the use of filters on the popular Snapchat app claiming they are "sinful".
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Turkish authorities accuse U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his supporters of organizing the July 2016 coup attempt.
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It is also a crowning achievement for Rouhani, a pragmatic cleric who had pledged to reduce Iran's international isolation.
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During the September meeting, Flynn allegedly discussed removing Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen from the U.S., a potentially illegal act.
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Instead, he says, he is drawn to a new party coming up in Lahore, led by a Barelvi cleric.
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Led by a reclusive Turkish-born, American-based cleric, Fethullah Gulen, the sect preaches democracy, interfaith dialogue and education.
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He also has the support of Muqtada al-Sadr, a mercurial Shia cleric whose followers dominate the protest movement.
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Omarkhayam went to Al-Azhar University in Cairo, where he met the daughter of a conservative Indonesian Islamic cleric.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has pressed the U.S. to extradite him, views the cleric as a political enemy.
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Turkey has accused Gülen, the cleric, of orchestrating a failed coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2016.
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Al Shabaab said last year the cleric had insulted the Prophet, an accusation denied at the time by Abdiweli.
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"No, it's not under consideration," Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about the cleric, Fethullah Gulen.
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Cleric Sayyed Ahmad Batahi, who also attended the sermon, took Kermani's message on the nuclear deal one step further.
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The charges against him stem from the now-defunct Flynn Intel Group's lobbying campaign against Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen.
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The exiled cleric, 77, has been living in a gated compound in eastern Pennsylvania after leaving Turkey in 1999.
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Even medical practitioners will often defer to their cleric over anything taught in medical school, 28 Too Many said.
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It is even less likely to be able to prove that the cleric himself was involved in the plot.
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His running mate was conservative cleric Ma'ruf Amin, who supports Sharia law and believes that homosexuality should be criminalized.
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The cleric also promised earlier this year to punish those suspected of abusing their official positions to get rich.
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On the surface, the protests were about a power-hungry cleric exploiting a cabinet reshuffle battle for political gain.
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That's because of the person who's leading them: a Shia Islamist cleric and political leader named Muqtada al-Sadr.
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It would make sense that the IRGC would want a cleric that would be fully supportive of its interests.
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An Indonesian cleric who helped write strict adultery laws recieved 28 lashes after he was caught committing adultery himself.
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"Jokowi has criminalized clerics and that has been very hurtful for the Muslim public," said cleric Cecep Abdul Halim.
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Erdogan blames the attempted coup on Fethullah Gulen, an exiled cleric and former ally based in the United States.
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Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's electoral list came first in the national election which saw a historically low turnout.
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He told her that Saudi prosecutors were seeking the death penalty against Sheikh Salman al-Awda, a reformist cleric.
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This explains some of Saudi Arabia's tough stance on executing the Eastern Province Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr.
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Finsbury Park mosque rose to prominence in the 1990s because of its association with the radical cleric Abu Hamza.
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In television terms the bespectacled cleric, 90, is a waning force: His last broadcast was about four years ago.
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He said the cleric later joined ISIS in Raqqa but fled when United States-backed forces captured the city.
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But as a cleric I am taught that dancing and music is pleasure-seeking and therefore haram, or unlawful.
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Co-founded in 1996 by Mr. Choudary and another radical cleric, Omar Bakri, the group was banned in 2004.
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As behoves an unusual cleric from an ever more diverse land, the ceremony in Rome was full of peculiarities.
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He has refused calls for an early election made by his erstwhile main supporter, populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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He was a cleric in a Baghdad mosque during the 2003 U.S. invasion that toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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His influence extends throughout Europe, where his lawyer says the cleric is the only imam authorized to issue fatwas.
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The civilian detainees are accused of directing police officers also loyal to the cleric, effectively creating a parallel leadership.
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Those arrested were civilians accused of directing police officers loyal to the cleric Fethullah Gulen, not the officers themselves.
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The message also repurposed words used by bin Laden and the American al Qaeda terrorist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
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The grand mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, was detained along with another cleric, according to local news reports.
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It remained unclear who killed a dozen protesters and bombed the home of the antigovernment cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
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Militiamen loyal to the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr were seen evacuating bodies in their trucks before ambulances arrived.
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The announcement also came after Iraq's top Shiite cleric withdrew his support for the government in a weekly sermon.
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He at times raised concerns about actions Trump had proposed, including the extradition of dissident Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen.
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But the curious saga of this possibly wayward cleric is also, or mostly, about the ruling junta's growing insecurity.
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Another prominent cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, on Thursday called for an emergency session in Parliament to discuss the situation.
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Erdogan is blaming the coup on a "terror group" led by Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is based in Pennsylvania.
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During a nine-month trial, his defense attorney argued the cleric was a spiritual leader being prosecuted for his speech.
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California puts a moratorium on the death penalty; a senior Catholic cleric will go to prison for child sex abuse.
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Trump administration officials reportedly requested last month that the Justice Department and FBI reopen Turkey's extradition case for the cleric.
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Powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr also called on fighters loyal to him to be on alert to protect Baghdad.
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For what it's worth, the cleric denies all charges and openly wonders if the coup was a false-flag operation.
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The results also mean Ma'ruf Amin, an Islamic cleric and Jokowi's 8003-year-old running mate, will become Vice President.
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Turkey's government has demanded Gulen's return since the failed Turkish coup of 2016, which it accuses the cleric of orchestrating.
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The cleric also called for human rights organizations to intervene and blamed Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for the violence.
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Erdogan accuses Fethullah Gulen, a charismatic U.S.-based cleric, of masterminding the plot against him, which crumbled early on Saturday.
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That cleric informed Sheikh's parents and the leadership of the Islamic Center of Irving, which decided Sheikh had to go.
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Khamenei's comments come as little surprise; the black-turbaned senior cleric has long sided with hardline conservatives on cultural matters.
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Iranians infuriated by the killing of a revered cleric promptly ransacked and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran.
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Saudi Arabia this week cracked down on Twitter users, including a radical Sunni cleric who published insulting comments about Shi'ites.
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But the Iranian leader, their supreme leader is a radical Shia cleric who has an apocalyptic vision of the future.
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A cleric then raised a call for "Azadi" – Urdu for freedom – several times, and declared Kashmir's allegiance to neighboring Pakistan.
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The execution this month of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a dissident Saudi Shi'ite cleric, has further poisoned relations with Iran.
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It has taken courage for the priest, the second-ranking cleric in one of Catania's main churches, to speak out.
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It previously carried out a mass execution of 47 people in January 2016, including Nimr al-Nimr, the Shia cleric.
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The most prominent is Salman al-Ouda, a popular cleric who dispenses religious advice to his 14m followers on Twitter.
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IRAN CLERIC SEDIGHI SAYS BRITAIN WILL BE "SLAPPED IN THE FACE" SOON FOR "DARING" TO CAPTURE IRANIAN OIL TANKER - TV
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Turkey accuses Mr Gulen of masterminding last year's failed coup (charges the cleric denies) and has long sought his return.
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This time Jokowi shielded himself from such accusations by picking a hardline Muslim cleric, Ma'ruf Amin, as his running-mate.
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They were mad that Saudi Arabia executed a dissident Shiite cleric who had spoken out against the Saudi royal family.
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The countries severed ties after the Saudis executed a Shiite cleric and Iranians stormed into the kingdom's embassy in Tehran.
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We also kept track of deteriorating ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, after Riyadh executed a Shiite cleric, sparking protests.
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Saudi Arabia cut all ties with Iran on Sunday following the kingdom's execution of prominent Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
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His journal praises Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and al-Qaeda recruiter killed by American drone strike in 2011.
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The cleric earlier on Tuesday tweeted that "Iraq is bigger than the biggest bloc," a likely reference to the compromise.
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The diplomatic row between the two major oil producers escalated following Riyadh's execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric on Saturday.
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Tensions have increased since Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shi'ite cleric convicted of inciting violence, was executed a year ago.
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Ali said the incident took place Wednesday after the boy misheard the words of cleric Shabbir Ahmed during a sermon.
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Turkey blames followers of the cleric Fethullah Gulen for the coup and has demanded his extradition from the United States.
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They charged the newspaper was effectively taken over by supporters of the cleric Gulen, particularly after 2013 under Dundar's stewardship.
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Ankara is seeking, so far without success, extradition of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric it accuses of backing the attempt.
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In Borno state, a prominent Christian cleric had urged people to vote for competent candidates rather than on religious lines.
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Iran is led by a Supreme Leader who is a radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future.
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Senior cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani is both the spiritual and civic guide to Shiite communities across the region.
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Altogether more than 60,000 people have been purged for suspected links to Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric exiled in America.
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Baloch was a divisive figure within Pakistan and made headlines when she met with senior religious cleric Mufti Abdul Qawi.
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Gulen is an exiled cleric living in Pennsylvania whom the Turkish government accuses of being behind the failed coup attempt.
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They have asked the United States to extradite or detain the cleric, who was once a close ally of Erdogan's.
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There was, for example, the cleric who appeared to call for the death of Mickey Mouse, then tried to backtrack.
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Turkey has long demanded Washington hand over a Muslim cleric which Ankara holds responsible for an attempted coup in 2016.
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Richardson said the Saudis, a Sunni power, "shouldn't have executed the cleric" because they should have anticipated the sectarian outrage.
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The newest round of recriminations began when Saudi Arabia executed a pro-Iranian dissident Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
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The cleric was among 47 people executed for terrorism offenses by beheading or firing squad by the kingdom on Saturday.
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Turkey has long demanded Washington hand over a Muslim cleric who Ankara holds responsible for an attempted coup in 2016.
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Moreover, Clinton was informed that the cleric, Abu Omar, was rendered to Egypt where he said he was brutally tortured.
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Ankara accuses supporters of exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen of backing the short-lived coup in which over 240 were killed.
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It centered on Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish cleric exiled in the United States who is wanted by the Turkish government.
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Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a well-known hard-line cleric, fulminated in a speech that traditional values needed to be protected.
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Saudi prosecutors have sought the death penalty for Salman al-Awdah, a prominent, reformist cleric who was arrested last September.
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"He faces a difficult task," said Fazel Meybodi, a Shiite Muslim cleric from the city of Qom who supports reforms.
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"He faces a difficult task," Fazel Meybodi, a Shiite Muslim cleric from the city of Qum, said of Mr. Rouhani.
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However, at Friday prayers in Tehran, an Iranian cleric said U.S. interests across the world were now exposed to threat.
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Kanter said he was with Gülen the night of the coup, where the cleric cried and prayed for his country.
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A top Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, warned Wednesday that his country would target Israel if the US attacks Iran.
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Sadr City is a stronghold of nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose political bloc won a May 12 parliamentary election.
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Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said any country that stands by the cleric would be considered at war with Turkey.
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That victory led to the appointment of the hard-line Hindu cleric Yogi Adityanath as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
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A Sadr spokesman said the cleric called on supporters to evacuate parliament and set up tents outside, according to Reuters.
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Riyadh then broke diplomatic ties when its Tehran embassy was stormed in January over the Saudi execution of a Shi'ite cleric.
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The prayer was led by Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, and by Bishop Richard Chartres of London.
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Flynn, who was not referred to by name in that indictment, was involved in the efforts to smear the exiled cleric.
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Junaid Jamshed, a well-known Pakistani pop star turned evangelical Muslim cleric, was among those feared dead, an airline official said.
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The body of an Egyptian cleric convicted of plotting terror attacks in New York has been returned to Egypt for burial.
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Erdogan has blamed Fethullah Gülen — a Turkish cleric who lives in self-imposed exile in the US — for masterminding the plot.
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Akhundzada is a cleric, not a commander, and the Taliban likely hopes his religious background can help him unite the organization.
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Anyone with suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Erdogan accuses of masterminding the putsch, is a possible target.
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Kaabi is a cleric who was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2008 for threatening the peace and stability of Iraq.
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Iranian-born Sistani distances himself from Tehran and disagrees with the Islamic Republic's model of state rule by a supreme cleric.
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The order comes after police completed an investigation of the cleric&aposs possible involvement in the murder of model Qandeel Baloch.
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To counter those claims, Jokowi has chosen Ma'ruf Amin, a prominent 75-year-old cleric, as his running-mate this time.
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Uncle Sam is Hussain's character who presents as a stereotypical Muslim cleric, first appearing on the hilarious TV show Salam Café.
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In May, a mob attacked a 100-year-old Ahmadi mosque in eastern Pakistan, spurred by the words of a cleric.
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Erdogan blames the Gülen movement and its founder, Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, for inciting a coup against him in July 2016.
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Saudi Arabia severed ties with Iran after demonstrators angry at the execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric attacked Saudi diplomatic missions.
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Moved by her story, he issued a fatwa allowing the procedure, which a cleric later compared to changing wheat into bread.
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An IS-affiliated group in Sinai has a record of persecuting Sufis, beheading a 100-year-old cleric late last year.
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The rejects included Hassan Khomeini, a reformist cleric who is the grandson of the founder of the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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The percentage of avowedly "practising Catholics" far exceeds the numbers who actually turn up at mass, as any cleric will confirm.
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The ultra conservative Muslim cleric appoints a panel that decides who gets to run for the presidency in the first place.
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The four are accused of committing crimes on behalf of the network of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, they said.
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Turkey says the mastermind behind the attempted overthrow was U.S.-based Turkish cleric, Fethullah Gulen, and it has demanded his extradition.
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They are about 89.7% of the Internet, but one Saudi cleric says cat photos are a no-no in his country.
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But the problems really flared just after the new year, when Saudi Arabia executed 47 people, including a prominent Shiite cleric.
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Erdogan accuses Fethullah Gulen, a charismatic U.S.-based cleric and former ally, of masterminding the plot, which crumbled early on Saturday.
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The crisis began earlier this month when Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia executed Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other men.
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Kian and Flynn have been accused of leading a lobbying campaign against exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is living in Pennsylvania.
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He said followers of the cleric - who denied the allegations - had infiltrated the police and judiciary and were plotting a coup.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said he sees in this case the hand of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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In December, Saudi Arabia and Iran clashed over another Shiite Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, who was executed in Saudi Arabia.
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"We're not an Islamic state," complains a Qatari cleric in a state-funded Islamic centre, who says his ilk are oppressed.
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Erdogan has his roots in political Islam and was an ally of the cleric until a public falling-out in 2013.
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The U.S. occupation authority issued an arrest warrant for him for his alleged role in the murder of a rival cleric.
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Gulen is considered the main adversary of Erdogan -- the president blames the cleric for orchestrating an attempted military coup last year.
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Erdoğan blames Fethullah Gülen for the 2016 failed coup attempt against him and has demanded the U.S. immediately extradite the cleric.
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If the cleric were to die once in Turkish hands, that could mean a life sentence for the pair, Zeldin said.
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It says the purges are needed to root out supporters of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric it blames for the coup.
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A senior cleric invites him to join a Canonical Investigation Commission, which will examine an event that occurred in southern France.
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The government has also deemed followers of the exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen to be terrorists, blaming them for the attempted coup.
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The grandfather of the missing boy, Siraj Wahhaj, is a Muslim cleric who leads a well-known New York City mosque.
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Those leaders seemed, at the time, as exciting as Vaclav Havel and the revolutionary cleric Musa al-Sadr rolled into one.
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Amiri's Alliance has been in advanced talks with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to form a new alliance in recent days.
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Flynn, however, has said the cleric should be sent back to Turkey regardless of what happens to him once he's there.
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He denies charges of assisting followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating a failed 2016 putsch.
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Four adventurers—an elven mage, a halfling thief, human cleric, and a dwarven warrior—all set off to have adventures together.
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And, even if Trump's team foresees talks based on Ayatollah Khamenei taking a knee, the cleric will never accept the terms.
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His firm, the Flynn Intel Group, was tasked with investigating Gulen and overseeing the creation of a documentary about the cleric.
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The two Middle Eastern nations have been battling since last week, when Saudi Arabia executed 47 prisoners including a Shiite cleric.
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Ankara is seeking, so far without success, extradition of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric it accuses of backing the coup attempt.
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On priestly sexual abuse, for example, he has acted like a highhanded cleric of old instead of taking firm, clear action.
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He reiterated the government's position that the exiled cleric Fehtullah Gülen, who lives in the US, is behind the coup attempt.
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The Turkish government had paid Mr. Flynn more than $500,000 to investigate Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric who lives in Pennsylvania.
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The group was formed with the ideological support of Aman Abdurrahman, a radical cleric who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
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Last week, France's senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was convicted of failing to report a known pedophile priest to police.
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The cleric has publicly denied masterminding the attempted coup, saying "it's not possible," and has said he is always against coups.
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In a tweet, the influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on government leaders to begin an investigation into Tuesday's clashes.
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"Should we worry about earning our livelihood or worry about children's whereabouts?" said Mr. Ramzan, a cleric in the local mosque.
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But Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the chief cleric, is losing his authority as arbiter between the government and the masses.
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Ankara accuses supporters of exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen of backing the short-lived coup in which over 240 people were killed.
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Members praised a Lebanese cleric from Tripoli, Saleh Hamed, who attended in spite of the possibility of reprisal upon his return.
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Turkey has blamed followers of Fethullah Gulen, an American-based cleric and former ally of Mr. Erdogan, for the coup attempt.
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It was the first time that Ennahda, the Islamist party, fielded a presidential candidate, Abdelfattah Mourou, a 71-year-old cleric.
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Outside St. Peter's Basilica on Friday, some American Catholics were dismayed that the Vatican had brought back another high-ranking cleric.
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The government blames the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan, for orchestrating the failed coup.
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Voters went to the polls to choose between Hassan Rouhani, the moderate incumbent, and Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line cleric, above.
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The cleric, who has lived in self-imposed exile there since 4963, says the coup may have been orchestrated by Erdogan.
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Many of its converts have already travelled to Iran, including one who is training as the first Cuban-born Shiite cleric.
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The Abdulmutallab interviews were initially sought from the F.B.I. for a 2015 book about the life and death of the cleric.
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So did the television personality Amoo Rouhani, or Uncle Cleric, who spoke loudly into a microphone, asking children to recite poetry.
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The cleric, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, has denied the charges and condemned the coup.
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The kiss of the death might be, after the party's cleric was knocked on her ass by a witch-bolt and a bunch of thieves moved to surround her, the rogue decided to throw a flaming grease grenade in the crowd setting everyone on fire but especially the cleric, who was instantly burned to a cinder.
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The cleric, who styled himself as ISIS' representative to Germany, built up a national following among Islamist extremists in the European country.
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FETO is the government's label for supporters of the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen who authorities say was behind the coup attempt.
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The group was founded by Syrian-born Islamist cleric Omar Bakri in the late 1990s and called for Sharia law in Britain.
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The cleric didn't specify if his demand on distribution of oil revenue to the population was a condition to end the protests.
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Anwar Al-Awlaki, a US-born cleric who directed attacks against the US, was killed in a targeted drone strike in 2011.
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Kilic has been jailed since June 2017 on charges of supporting the cleric that Ankara blames for a July 2016 failed coup.
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The foundation is close to Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based cleric accused by Erdogan of orchestrating last summer's failed coup in Turkey.
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Ankara and Washington have discussed the extradition of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen from the United States, Turkey's foreign minister told CNBC Sunday.
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A senior Kievan cleric said the Istanbul meeting, and the apparent disappointment of the Muscovite visitors, boded well for the Ukrainian cause.
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The 80-year-old cleric underwent heart surgery last month and has suffered from several health problems in the past few years.
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So to rephrase the question, is it possible for a Christian cleric in Syria to speak out with integrity and remain alive?
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President Hassan Rouhani has been approved, as has Ebrahim Raisi, the staunch conservative cleric who is expected to be Rouhani's main opponent.
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Q&A Saudi Arabia's execution of the Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr could escalate tensions in the Muslim world even further.
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The coup may be rooted in a long-standing distrust and ideological conflict between the Turkish government and an exiled religious cleric.
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Saudi Arabia acted after Iran criticized the Saudis' execution of an outspoken Shiite cleric and protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran.
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The cleric, who was lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999, denies any role in the attempted coup.
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In 2014, self-styled cleric Man Haron Monis held several people hostage at a Sydney coffee shop, ultimately killing two of them.
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Rather than defaulting to another hardline cleric, some envision a clerical council, a military dictatorship or even a disruptive, potentially revolutionary transition.
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In choosing a successor, Khomeini even abandoned a tenet of velayat-e faqih, which held that "the most learned cleric" should lead.
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Turkey's government has accused U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen of masterminding the coup, in which more than 200 people were killed.
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He has even hosted Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shia cleric, and Qasim al-Araji, Iraq's interior minister who is close to Iran.
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Nic Robertson and his team are the first foreign journalists to travel to Awamia, hometown of executed cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
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Cleric and sheikh, Nimr al-Nimr, was among 47 people put to death this weekend in Saudi Arabia for terrorism-related offences.
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Relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran -- two Middle Eastern powerhouses -- quickly deteriorated following Riyadh's execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr Saturday.
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Earlier this month, an Australia bishop became the most senior Roman Catholic cleric to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse.
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According to the filing, Flynn Intel's work involved collecting information about Gulen and pressuring U.S. officials to take action against the cleric.
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Turkish authorities accuse the leader of this network, U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, of masterminding the attempted putsch in July 2016.
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With soft-spoken cleric Hassan Rouhani now Iran's president, Tehran often goes to lengths to sound like the adult in the room.
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He is the son of a respected Shi'ite cleric who was a minister in the era of Iraq's monarchy, overthrown in 1958.
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For example, the radical cleric Siraj Wahhaj, a former member of CAIR's advisory board, remains one of the organization's most frequent speakers.
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In early August, an audio recording was thrust into the spotlight by the son of a former top cleric, Hossein-Ali Montazeri.
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President Tayyip Erdogan has cracked down on schools, media and businesses run by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen since the July coup.
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Saudi Arabia, a conservative Sunni kingdom, executed a prominent Shi'ite cleric this month, infuriating Shi'ites around the region and arch foe Iran.
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Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared that the Sunni kingdom would face "divine revenge" for putting to death a peaceful cleric.
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Trump said in November that he was not considering extraditing Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey blames for a failed 2016 coup.
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But Riyadh's execution earlier this month of a prominent Shiite cleric and Iranian recriminations have brought the tensions to a new low.
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Erdogan said the investigation, which centered on ministers and business people close to him, was orchestrated by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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Since the attempted coup, authorities have dismissed or suspended more than 100,000 people suspected of links to the cleric, and fired 40,000.
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The former Vatican treasurer, Pell is the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted in the Church's far-reaching sex abuse scandal.
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A Malaysian Islamic cleric had earlier called for Malaysia to pull out of the tournament, which is co-hosted by the Philippines.
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Angrily dismissing those concerns, Turkish officials say they are rooting out a serious internal threat from followers of a U.S.-based cleric.
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The government accused Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric based in America, of plotting the coup (which he denied), and sought his extradition.
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At least 2003,000 people have been detained for suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the plot.
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Biden said it may be difficult for Turks to understand that President Barack Obama had no constitutional authority to extradite the cleric.
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Turkey blames supporters of the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, for the coup attempt, in which more than 240 people died.
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Protesters have been joined by supporters of an influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who has called on the government to resign.
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The crackdown intensifies a long-standing push by Erdogan to root out the influence of followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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The cleric has denied this and said he played no role in the attempted coup, denouncing it as an affront to democracy.
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Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)An extremist Indonesian cleric was found guilty of inciting terrorism and sentenced to death by a Jakarta court Friday.
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The Turkish government has accused followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, of plotting the coup.
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"Leave us to do our job, do not interfere," cleric Imam Djamel Ghoul, leader of an independent group of clerics, told reporters.
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Two weeks ago, Archbishop Philip Wilson became the most senior Catholic cleric worldwide to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse.
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A soft-spoken cleric, he was among the few Islamic scholars to argue that Muslim women could marry Christian or Jewish men.
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His rivals see in the demonstrations an attempt by the cleric to dictate his views to the rest of the political class.
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A campus police officer shoots and kills Artan, whom police believe was inspired by ISIS and the radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Protests erupted in several cities, mostly by supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik, the religious party of the firebrand cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi.
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In what most critics saw as a betrayal, Cardinal Obando y Bravo remained by his side until the cleric died last month.
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Nimr al-Nimr was a prominent Shia cleric and activist who had long called for more rights for Saudi Arabia's Shia Muslims.
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Mr. Erdogan said the failed uprising was fomented by the cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally now living in exile in Pennsylvania.
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One cleric, who had asked Mr. Ball to support his ordination, said he refused to remove his clothing at Mr. Ball's request.
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One cleric said he had not wanted his wife and daughters to have cellphones at first either, but later changed his mind.
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In March, Yogi Adityanath, a hardline Hindu cleric, became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous, and most politically powerful state.
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Monsignor Capella is the first cleric to stand trial under a 2013 law that criminalizes the possession and distribution of child pornography.
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The cleric who led the now abandoned project was Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, not Imam Sheikh Fadhel al Sahlani(read more here ).
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In a video diary, she berated an unnamed cleric who offered her a "pleasure marriage" — a temporary union unique to Shia Islam.
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"It is nothing more than the spiritual dimension" of Islam, the cleric, who goes by Imam Feisal, said in a phone interview.
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In the fall of 2016, Islamic State's local affiliate claimed to have executed a Sufi cleric who was about 100 years old.
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Each chapter begins with Cleric Chih cataloging the goods in a house where the late Empress In-yo resided during her banishment.
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"I will never go back home," said Mohamed Rafique, a Muslim cleric who arrived in a refugee camp in Bangladesh in September.
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Mr. Erdogan has repeatedly called on the American judicial authorities to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a cleric who lives in exile in Pennsylvania.
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Mr. Erdogan has also repeatedly called on the American authorities to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a cleric who lives in exile in Pennsylvania.
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The respected leader of a local mosque for 20 years, Mr. Akhundzada was a prominent cleric supporting the government's press for peace.
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A cannon blast sounded — a declaration by the town cleric that Eid had begun — and screams of happiness echoed through the neighborhood.
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All these books were purportedly connected to Fethullah Gulen, the cleric blamed for the failed coup attempt against Erdogan's government in 2016.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the Pennsylvania-based Islamist cleric Fetullah Gulen and his followers in the Turkish military for the coup.
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The crackdown has targeted people who authorities say are suspected of links to the network of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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The indictment said he tried to convince US lawmakers to support the extradition of an exiled Turkish cleric who lives in Pennsylvania.
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Prosecutors said that the comments were coded messages to followers of the cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for orchestrating the coup.
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Although he has denied it, he was also reportedly planning to work to extradite a cleric living in Pennsylvania back to Turkey.
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Widodo's vice president in his next term starting in October, Islamic cleric Ma'ruf Amim, has also previously backed the new criminal code.
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Last year, 47 people were executed on one day, including a prominent Saudi Shiite cleric convicted for his role in violent protests.
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"America is the greatest Satan," said a cleric, holding his index finger in the air as hundreds of people did the same.
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Most are accused of affiliations with the Gulen movement, the Islamic followers of Fethullah Gulen, the cleric accused of orchestrating the putsch.
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But he isn't intellectually laissez-faire: When university students protested against censorship in 1999, the cleric publicly threatened the youths with death.
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But they lacked a quorum due to a boycott called by influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of parliament's largest bloc.
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He reportedly began referring to the cleric as a "dangerous extremist," language ripped straight from far-right message boards and hyperpartisan media.
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Ankara says cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in the United States since 1999, was behind the abortive putsch in July 2016.
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Erdogan blamed a Muslim cleric living in rural Pennsylvania for a failed coup attempt and demanded the United States immediately extradite him.
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Trump could also promise to put pressure on Fethullah Gülen, the cleric Erdogan blames for the coup, and his organization, Jeffrey said.
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"We are alarmed by today's decision to revoke the citizenship of Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim," State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
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In Mr. Abdel Rahman's trial, prosecutors described the World Trade Center attack as part of a broader conspiracy involving the blind cleric.
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Erdogan has proposed swapping Brunson for the Pennsylvania-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who he accuses of plotting a 2016 coup against him.
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Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran after protestors ransacked its embassy in Tehran over the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.
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"Iraq belongs to the Arab League, not to Iran," said Sheikh Fadhil al-Bidayri, a cleric at the religious seminary in Najaf.
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Turkish authorities have issued detention warrants for 2900 people connected to cleric Fethullah Gulen, state media reported, according to The Associated Press.
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What messages do you see and hear from a teenage girl, a Muslim cleric and members of law enforcement in the video?
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The Vatican did open an investigation in April 2015, yet the cleric appointed to head it admits he didn't get very far.
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He was in touch with Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, the cleric who was born in New Mexico.
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Najib is a hardened fighter and cleric who studied in the Middle East and reportedly trained with militants in Afghanistan, they say.
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The cleric said he organized the gathering after he was bombarded by concerned texts and phone calls from members of his congregation.
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Turkey has made repeated failed requests for Gulen's extradition: Washington says courts require sufficient evidence before they can extradite the influential cleric.
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The cleric, who served as archbishop of Melbourne and then Sydney, said he had been too quick to believe priests rather than victims.
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The cleric, who denies involvement in the attempted putsch and has condemned it, has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999.
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On January 2, the Saudis killed 47 people, including influential Muslim Shiite cleric Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, in a state-sanctioned mass execution.
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Oil prices also rebounded from previous lows as tensions escalated in the Middle East following Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric.
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Ankara is also furious Washington has not extradited Fetullah Gulen, a U.S.-based cleric who Erdogan has accused of orchestrating the failed coup.
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It is at least the second time the White House has sought to remove Fethullah Gulen, a cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania.
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The move follows the Saudi execution of leading Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, and a revenge attack on the Saudi embassy in Iran.
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"There's nothing to stop a ceremony taking place at Kerbala stadium, or from women attending," said Sheikh Wael al-Boudairi, a local cleric.
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Pell, the No. 3 official in the Vatican hierarchy, is the most senior Roman Catholic cleric worldwide to be convicted of such offences.
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The cleric, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999, has denied the charge and condemned the coup.
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Tubagus Muhammad Tamyiz, a cleric, shows the mini-inked gold Qur'an at the Jami Darussalam Mosque in West Java, Indonesia, on May 20.
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And the protesters who once thronged to hear the island's leading Shia cleric, Isa Qassim, deliver his Friday sermon now stay at home.
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It said the extradition request includes social media comments made about Gulen by Kanter, who has often declared his support for the cleric.
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And just two months ago a Muslim cleric in Kyrgyzstan was arrested for trying to rally young Muslim to join ISIS in Syria.
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The government is reportedly purging judiciary officials affiliated with Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, who Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blames for the attack.
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Baloch was found strangled in her home in the city of Multan after posting racy pictures on Facebook of herself with the cleric.
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The government says ByLock was used as a communication tool by supporters of the Muslim cleric whom it blames for the failed putsch.
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The Turkish leader was expected to press Obama on US-based cleric Fethulah Gulen, under suspicion in Turkey for helping plot the coup.
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Powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his followers to protest in order to pressure Abadi to follow through on reform pledges.
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Ankara has also blamed a US-based cleric for orchestrating a coup against the government, although there's no evidence to support the claim.
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He was unseated by a coalition led by Muqtada al-Sadr, an anti-American Shia cleric who once oversaw uprisings against U.S. troops.
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Seven defendants are being tried in absentia, including Fethullah Gulen, a cleric based in America who is accused of masterminding the coup attempt.
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There's also the unexpected sharpening of tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia over the weekend, following Saudi Arabia's execution of a Shia cleric.
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These included closing down the main Shi'ite opposition group al-Wefaq and revoking the citizenship of top Shi'ite Muslim cleric Ayatollah Isa Qassim.
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They are accused of collaborating with a movement led by a U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has become Erdogan's top foe.
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Human-rights groups are less impressed, blaming him—among other things—for the execution in January of a Shia cleric accused of terrorism.
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All the institutions are suspected of having links to U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Erdogan of masterminding the abortive coup.
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The cleric, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, has denied the accusations against him and condemned the coup.
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Turkey wants the United States to extradite the cleric, while Washington has said it will do so only if there is clear evidence.
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CNN affiliate CNN Turk reported at the time that Brunson was arrested for membership in FETO, the organization led by cleric Fetullah Gulen.
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The women are: a dancer (or as the game describes, a "whore"), cleric (the picture of pure, virginal feminine servitute), and a merchant.
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Erdogan accuses U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his supporters of organizing the coup, in which more than 250 people were killed.
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Aimen Dean, a Saudi analyst who now runs a political consultancy based in Dubai, says Nimr was never a "top-tier" Shia cleric.
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Turkey, in turn, is angry that the U.S. has not extraditing a Muslim cleric it blames for the failed coup attempt this summer.
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In one of the cables, a U.S. State Department official who met with Nimr described the cleric as a maverick with little influence.
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The district governor, Hadi Tamidi, said the incident occurred as a result of a dispute between the attacker and a cleric, IRNA reported.
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Flynn wrote that Turkey needed support and echoed Erdogan's warnings about Gulen, whom he called a "shady" Turkish Muslim cleric living in Pennsylvania.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In late May, an Iraqi cleric called Akram Kaabi visited militia fighters in a desolate Iraqi town near the Syrian border.
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Turkey's justice ministry submitted an arrest warrant to the Americans for Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic cleric living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania.
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The current crisis was sparked last weekend when Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shiite cleric along with dozens of others on terrorism charges.
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The cleric once supported the Afghan Taliban and called for the imposition of Islamic law, but has recently tried to look more moderate.
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A social media video of the attack's aftermath shows a crowd cheering a local cleric, who then claims to have ransacked the mosque.
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The cleric, Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, commonly known as Mullah Krekar, arrived in Norway as a refugee in 1991, but is not a citizen.
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"They met in prison, of course they can be friends," said Fazel Meybodi, a reformist cleric from the Shiite holy city of Qum.
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Brunson was accused of aiding the opposition Kurdistan Workers' Party and Fethullah Gülen, an Islamic cleric who Erdoğan claims orchestrated the failed coup.
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President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, privately pushed him to hand over a controversial Muslim cleric to Turkey, The Washington Post reported.
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On Saturday, Saudi Arabia executed 220006 prisoners, including Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shiite cleric who was critical of the Saudi royal family.
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Erdem is charged with assisting the followers of the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating the failed 2016 putsch.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, urged pro-government fighters in a Friday sermon not to seek revenge against residents.
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There may be no moment where it's more important to have a cleric of one's faith than at the moment of one's death.
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"It's a very rare thing to see a cleric killed, and the Muslim community has already been on edge," Mr. de Blasio said.
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Musharraf has also been charged in connection with the 2007 assassination of prime minister Benazir Bhutto and the murder of a prominent cleric.
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The electoral list of Moqtada al-Sadr, a populist Shi'ite cleric, unexpectedly won the biggest number of seats in the May 12 ballot.
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He wants more from you, including the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gulen, who he blames for a failed coup attempt, among other reasons.
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A prominent cleric, Saad bin Nasser al-Shethri, had been stripped of a leadership position by the previous king, Abdullah, for condemning coeducation.
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Last week, after the Mosul campaign began, Shiite protesters, organized by the cleric Moktada al-Sadr, converged on the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad.
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His government blames the failed takeover on followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish-born cleric based in the United States, who denies responsibility.
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Jhangvi's assassinated father, Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, was a fierce anti-Shia cleric who founded a feared Sunni sectarian group, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan.
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In 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric who had become a Qaeda leader in Yemen, was killed in an airstrike there.
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They blindfolded him again and led him to a sort of courtroom, where a bearded cleric, the judge, sat behind a wooden desk.
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He had telephoned Mehri — he said her name, I did not — and she had agreed to go with him to see the cleric.
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Ties have worsened since Riyadh's execution in January of prominent Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr prompted attacks on the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
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The country's senior Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said the army's treatment of people in Mosul was a source of pride.
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"Disbelievers and apostates, die with your anger," read one post seen by Reuters this month that praised the killing of a Sufi cleric.
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The Turkish authorities say the app was used by followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed for masterminding the failed coup attempt.
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Turkey demands that the United States extradite Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara has said orchestrated a failed 2016 military coup against Erdogan.
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Nonetheless, Mr. Meleagrou-Hitchens said, the popularity of YouTube and its automated recommendations have made it an especially pernicious platform for the cleric.
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Inside the mosque, a cleric sought blessings for Gotabaya Rajapaksa so he could ensure "unity and equality for all ethnicities in Sri Lanka".
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The Turkish government said the coup was led by Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic cleric who is living in exile in the United States.
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A lone Shiite cleric, wearing a backpack, sandals and his traditional turban, wandered through the flattened village of Kuik-e Hasan on Tuesday.
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The network's first leader, the cleric Ustadz Nanang Ainur Rafiq, went to Syria in 2015 and was killed last year fighting Kurdish forces.
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Sukur was also a disciple of Fethullah Gulen, a cleric who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania for nearly 20 years.
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Barbarin, 69, had been the highest-profile cleric to be caught up in a child sex abuse scandal in the French Catholic Church.
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A Muslim woman in India who seeks a divorce must generally gain the permission of her husband, a cleric or other Islamic authorities.
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Pell, who became the most senior Catholic cleric worldwide to be convicted of child sex abuse, was jailed for six years in February.
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The cleric had long operated in Mr. Moussavi's shadow, but he emerged in 2009 as a leading opposition figure in his own right.
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A senior Shi'ite cleric warned on Wednesday the street could spin out of control and push "our nation into a slide towards anarchy".
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The cleric-led regime that has ruled since managed to quell protests in 2009 -- known as the "Green Movement" -- after a disputed election.
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The Turkish officials said all of those arrested had been linked to Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive Turkish Islamic cleric who lives in Pennsylvania.
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As the cleric spoke, more smoke rose in the sky behind him, and worshipers peeled away and began to walk toward the fence.
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The message, addressed to the American people, repurposed words used by bin Laden and the American al Qaeda terrorist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
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And in Poland today, there is no more politically powerful — or divisive — cleric than the man referred to as "Father Director," the Rev.
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Last month, a cleric who specializes in spewing hate against minorities marched on Islamabad with his followers to put pressure on the government.
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When headlines blare that some official, film star, or cleric has been lying, no one thinks, if true, that it is a compliment.
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The Islamic State targeted the militia affiliated with the nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr twice on Thursday night in Samarra, north of Baghdad.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Gulen of orchestrating a failed 2016 coup and has urged the U.S. to extradite the cleric.
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The cleric, who once supported Erdogan but became a leading adversary, condemned the attempted coup and said he played no role in it.
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Widodo has sought to strengthen his ties with moderate Islamic leaders and he recently appointed a controversial hardline cleric as a communications adviser.
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" Meanwhile, Shia firebrand cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr appears to have sided with protesters, saying they "only want to earn their living with dignity.
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Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced his resignation Friday after the country's top cleric criticized the government following a deadly day of protests.
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Turkey has repeatedly requested Gulen's extradition, but U.S. officials have said the courts require sufficient evidence before they can extradite the elderly cleric.
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The issue brings together Shiite parties who do not like Americans, most notably the one led by the radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
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Sentencing proceedings for Cardinal George Pell, the highest ranking Roman Catholic cleric to be convicted of sexual abuse, are expected to begin today.
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An Iranian cleric, Shahab Moradi, said Iran would struggle to hit back against the US by striking a parallel figure to Maj. Gen.
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An institute run by the hard-line cleric Mohammad Taghi Meshbah-Yazdi was to receive eight times as much as a decade ago.
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President Joko Widodo earlier on Thursday announced his intention to run for second term with top cleric Ma'ruf Amin as vice presidential candidate.
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He said he was a cleric and community leader, but in truth he was some retired agricultural engineer they rounded up in Boise.
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BATANGAS, Philippines (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Muslim cleric from the city of Batangas walked up to Archbishop Ramon Arguelles and held out his hand.
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Cleric Fethullah Gulen has denied the allegation, but tens of thousands of people suspected of ties to his network have been arrested or fired.
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The neighborhood is named after the family of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose bloc won the most seats in last month&aposs elections.
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Kilic had been jailed for a year on charges of supporting the U.S. based cleric whom Ankara blames for a July 2016 failed coup.
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