Abu Bakr

Home grown violent extremists or home-grown terrorism has become more prevalent in recent years. Terrorist are criminals. I would say that a serial killer is a criminal. Serial killers create terror by killing specific persons and motives. That brings up the questions are serial killers terrorist or murderers? Terrorists and murderers can get placed in the same category quite easily. However, using violence or the act of violence, such as hijacking or kidnapping, to terrify persons into a…

Thesis: Homeland Security is interdisciplinary in nature by bringing together fields of criminal justice, security, and political psychology. ISIS and Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi declared Islamic Caliphate with 7 steps or phases that occur every 3 years ending in 2020. ISIS and Al Qaeda divided on who is actually the Caliph based on descendants of the Quaraysh tribe, and who has been selected by the Shura. ISIS is establishing legitimacy among Sunni Muslims around the world and moving away from Al…

Throughout the years of the post classical era, 500 through 1000C.E., the religions Islam and Christianity undoubtedly began to take shape. Although Christianity had already been established since the around 30 C.E., it wasn’t until the post classical era that it became a major religion thoughout western and eastern Europe. (Bentley 233) The Islamic faith on the other hand did not emerge until the year c.610 C.E. and developed as a major religion of the region throughout the time period.…

Introduction The factions of Islam among the Shi’ites and Sunnis involve different understandings of the Islamic succession. This paper will compare the Shi’ites and the Sunnis by exploring the differences and similarities between the two. Both factions of the Muslim faith have various perspectives that have molded the Islamic world. “This initial rift was compounded over the centuries by a recurring pattern of struggle within Islam between strains of militant puritanism and the less rigorous…

Al-Qaeda and ISIS are two Islamist multi-national organizations which aims to spread all over the region in order to unify the Muslim world, they believe they represent religion, and use the later to justify their actions. These two Islamic groups have fought war against what they called the non-Islamic population and the west. As much as the two organizations have big similarities from how they both share the Wahhabi ideology, loathe the religious establishment of al-Azhar, involved in…

it returns, he seems to have been executed. Prior to Gourdel's passing, the aggressor says he and his companions will be "closer to Allah by executing this foul Frenchman with regards to Allah's religion," and after that addresses ISIS pioneer Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saying, "we are with you… here are your warriors battling those you battle and making peace with those you make peace with."…

schools which had a long history of secularism. Such political moves against the hijab have only intensified, according to Leila Ahmed, “relevance to the issues being debated in Muslim societies today” (Ahmed, 1992, p. 101). Many of the women I met at Abu Bakr Masjid left their countries precisely because of such political moves. As a result, American Muslim women re-embraced the act of hijab as a resurgent fervor for religious identity. Many Muslim women feel that wearing the hijab empowers…

The Shia and the Sunni. Both groups are denominations of Islam, however they do not believe that Muhammad’s successor is the same person. As the Shia believe it is Ali ibn Abi Talib, the Sunni believe it is Abu Bakr. Both groups are made of a huge percentage of either the people of Iraq or of the muslims. In what regards solutions to calm and eventually cease the sectarian violence in Iraq, the president name Haider al-Abadji to become the new prime…

The ‘Islamic’ culture started with a man in Mecca, Muhammad. who had a revelation and he set out to change the world in the way that was shown to him. He died after having established a polity based on his vision in Medina and soon it assumed proportions that stretched far beyond. He now contested not only with the Quraysh in Mecca but the Byzantines and Sassanians as well. The leaders of the Muslim community, the caliphs after his death continued the conquests and established a vast Islamic…

Abd al Karim Qasim seized power in July 1958 during a coup and officially announced the creation of a new Republic of Iraq. Political stability, however, will only come ten years later when the Arab Socialist Ba’th Party; led by Ahmed Hassan al Bakr and Colonel Abdul Salam Arif; impound Abd al Karim Qasim from its ruling. Under the Pan-Arab political ideology of Ba’athism; which promotes the unification of Arab Nations in order to restore the character of Arab societies; the regime built one of…