For the majority who do not read newspapers, the sole source of news is the hardline state broadcasting monopoly, Sound and Vision, which has so far refused to mention it.
MESA, AZ -- In a stunning blow to the Tea Party movement, a huge turnout in Mesa's conservative LD 18 overwhelmingly voted out Arizona's hardline State Senate President Russell Pearce in a historic recall election today.
Chechnya invariably becomes "the war-torn republic" on second mention, Uzbekistan "the impoverished central Asian state", India and Pakistan "the nuclear neighbours", and North Korea "the hardline communist state" or "the reclusive state".
In the past few weeks the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham has orchestrated a number of bizarre publicity stunts, all of which seem to have been designed to prove to the people of Syria (many of whom are becoming rather nervous about the presence of jihadists who want to set up a hardline Islamic state in their country) that they have a cuddly, likeable side.
Boko Haram – whose name means "western education is sinful" – have been waging a deadly five-year insurgency aimed at creating a hardline Islamist state in the north of Africa's most populous country.
Bangladesh is still a long way from becoming a hardline Islamic state.
Bangladesh is still a long way from becoming a hardline Islamic state, but its secular rulers are doing their best to give secularism a bad name.
But the latest attacks show that the rebels, who want to create a hardline Islamic state in north-east Nigeria, still have the capacity to strike.
The group, which seeks a hardline Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has killed around 17,000 people and forced more than 2.6 million to flee their homes since 2009.
Buhari, who is due to assume office on 29 May, has vowed to crush the militants, who want to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria.
