They have asked for independence and a separate Islamic state.

他们要求独立和一个独立的伊斯兰国家。

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The violence came amid increasing international concern about Islamic State extremists in Libya.

暴力事件发生之际，国际社会更加关注在利比亚的伊斯兰国极端分子。

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Al-Shabab is tied to al-Qaida and aims to make Somalia into an Islamic state.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Noordin led a faction of the group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which seeks to establish a single Islamic state across much of Southeast Asia.

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"Egypt is a very Islamic state, with a very strong Muslim brotherhood.

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Critics of the Muslim Brotherhood, and indeed Tunisia's Ennahda, claim that they do really harbour the goal of an Islamic state but are cloaking this ambition in ambiguity as a matter of political expediency.

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Malaysia and Singapore have wanted Indonesia to arrest Abu Bakar Bashir, a Muslim cleric who leads Jemaah Islamiyah, an militant group which wants to create an Islamic state through a swathe of South-East Asia.

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Many Arabs with liberal leanings, for instance, quietly prefer authoritarian rule to the unknown quality of a supposedly democratic Islamic state, something which Mr Diamond, in a recent essay, reckons that some 40-45% of the people in four Arab countries seem to wish for.

ECONOMIST: Arab democracy