The Salafist challenge: Coming out of the Arab woodwork

Vittorio Arrigoni did not live like a good Islamist. The 36-year-old Italian idealist who was strangled in a Gaza flat on April 15th had tattoos on his body, which Sunni Islam forbids, including the name of God in Arabic, a double profanity. And he was a bit Bohemian; he and his colleagues from the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group which has sometimes provided human shields against Israeli attacks, were said to be friendly with local women.

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