The second explanation for General Musharraf's half-measures is that he is afraid of the extremist groups.
That worldview asserts that the world is divided between the extremist Islamic fundamentalists and the moderates.
But McCain said members of the extremist group represent only 7% of the nation's rebel forces, who number 100, 000.
"The fall of Kismayo, the last stronghold of the extremist Al-Shabaab insurgents in late September, marked a decisive turning point in the conflict, " he said.
The idea is that, with the constitution adopted, Serbia will hold an election before Kosovo goes, stopping the extremist Radical Party from picking up more disaffected votes.
The extremist right-leaning NPD group won 6% of the vote, winning seats and reopening the door to criticism from most party leaders for its anti-immigrant stance, among other ideals.
There have been a number of militants who were arrested in Indonesia involved in one of the extremist groups over there, who had studied in one of the madrasses in Pakistan.
That has rankled the extremist NGOs, like ForestEthics and Greenpeace, which advocated a more adversarial stance, convinced that the SFI and the Forest Products Association of Canada was secretly undermining the agreement.
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This mind-set was typical of the engineers and technocrats who disproportionately made up the extremist branch of Salafism, a school of thought intent on returning Islam to the idealized early days of the religion.
The two attacks raise new questions over whether the extremist sect, targeted by Nigeria's police and military, has picked a new soft target in its guerrilla campaign of shootings and bombings across the nation.
Speaking about the fight against the rise of the extremist ideology, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police Sir Peter Fahy told the BBC there had been a "steady stream of plots", which had on the whole been foiled by police.
Beginning with the Muslim Brotherhood of Hassan el-Banna in 1928, followed by the movements founded by Islamist ideologues like Abul ala Maududi, Sayyid Qutb and the extremist Deobandi creed in South Asia, radical Islam established a strong presence in the Muslim world in the second half of the 20th century.
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However, I find this scenario to be highly unlikely given the still extremist discourse, behavior and resentment of the FARC leadership.
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors hate in the US, describes the ABT as "the most violent extremist group in the United States".
Mrs Tebbutt was reportedly taken at first to a part of southern Somalia largely controlled by the Islamist extremist group al-Shabaab.
For instance, liberal Muslims are threatened by the same extremist forces.
And, equally, I think, among the young men who are taken to the more extremist form of politics, I think there's an identity issue there, too.
But the tone is tactical and managerial - in contrast to the passionate, extremist image sometimes attributed in the West to the Islamists.
"While the liberation of towns once under the control of the rebel and extremist groups has brought hope to the populations of northern Mali, I am deeply concerned at the risk of reprisal attacks against ethnic Tuareg and Arab civilians, " Mr Dieng said.
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But his intrepid journeys into the urban tumult of Karachi, the inner sanctums of extremist mosques and the tribal areas make up for his comparatively short stay.
Unite Against Fascism said it would be holding an anti-racism demonstration to coincide with the EDL rally, and the anti-extremist group Hope Not Hate is urging the home secretary to act.
Mr Obama warned that the US would not support extremist elements within the opposition coalition.
But Sheikh Sharif appears to be moderate against the backdrop of far more extremist elements within the Islamic Courts Union.
The Obama strategy is to do the same thing, leveraging liberal media bias, the latest technology, robust data and grassroots community organizing techniques, to smear the Republican Party as extremist, out of touch and disconnected from the needs of the majority of Americans.
The dominant narrative of the Tea Party as an extremist fringe group isolated from the American mainstream is distant from the truth.
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In a joint statement, Reading University Muslim Society, Reading University Students Union (RUSU) and the University of Reading said they agreed the event had been "undermined by the increasing threat of violent protest from extremist groups outside the University community".
"The prime minister spoke to President Hollande... to discuss the deteriorating situation... and how the UK can support French military assistance provided to the Malian government to contain rebel and extremist groups in the north of the country, " a spokeswoman said.
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