Next up for the socialist quartz countertop makers: Conquering America.

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This is what Yousef al-Qaradawi means when he talks about conquering Europe and America by way of Da'wa alone.

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Back in America, the conquering hero now known as the "American Sputnik" was given a tickertape parade down New York's Broadway.

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Mr Zoellick also considers engaging America's biggest trading partners more important than conquering Latin American markets the favourite goal of the Bush administration.

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Also, America intervened in two world wars when our vital interests were at stake -- stopping Germany from conquering Western Europe in 1917 and stopping Japan and Germany from conquering the world in 1941.

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