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Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler.

She wasn't crying, she didn't even sound frightened. She told me her plane was hijacked and that they didn't know she was making a phone call.

Part of our goal was to take back the medium of e-mail from spammers who have really hijacked it.

I don't know how they were going to get away with the car with my name on it. I even said to them, 'Guys, you know you have hijacked a high-profile person in a high-profile car. Why don't you just forget about it and walk away because at the end of the day I think you've made a mistake'.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

They've hijacked the bill to spend money on their toys. You have the V-22, which isn't even ready for fielding and it's getting money in the supplemental.

The objective of debt relief is to free up resources to improve the lot of the poor. But sustained improvements in governance are necessary for these resources not to be hijacked by vested interests and used effectively and efficiently to improve the delivery of education, health and other essential services.

The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic. They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting - it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people.

The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.

The Episcopal Church has been hijacked by the revisionist leadership.