31.  The radicals have carried out a bloody campaign for nearly three years aimed at destabilizing the secular government and turning Egypt into a strict Islamic state.

32.  The Taliban, mainly former religious students, have been fighting for two years to establish a strict Islamic state.

33.  The Taliban are on the verge of conquering all of Afghanistan, which they want to transform into a strict Islamic state.

34.  Their avowed aim was to set up a strict Islamic state in Mindanao, which has a minority population of nearly four million Muslims.

35.  Some have already picked the prospect of offering international sex lines, but Tokelau is a strict Christian state and is unlikely to agree to this.