The Organization of the Islamic Conference has been urging the United Nations to approve anti-defamation measures.

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Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is a Sunni organization which was formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.

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The Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting in Cairo is the start of a projected better infrastructure in the war-torn Sudanese region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

He was also for 15 years head of the world's largest Islamic organization, the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU).

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Amien Rais, leader of the 28-million-strong Muhammadiyah Islamic organization and a self-proclaimed presidential candidate, has said that Indonesia cannot overcome its economic crisis until Suharto leaves office.

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Though unknown to most Western observers, Aweys had notoriously served as military commander of al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI) an extremist Islamic organization that seeks to impose a strict version of sharia law on ethnic Somalis, and in parts of Ethiopia and Kenya.

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