Egyptian Islamic Jihad

intellectuals to speak out against ideological extremism. Their goal is to educate the Muslim community on the ills of Islamic extremism and to persuade them to be a part of the overall prevention scheme of the government. The government also has constant dialogues with community leaders to ensure that both parties are in the same position when it comes to its fight against Islamic extremism. The Muslim leaders are always informed about the arrests of community members who are believed to have…

The American people have a very clear idea of what terrorism looks like. What we also have a clear idea of is what reactions to terrorism typically look like. Terrorism is not a new phenomenon, and it has repeatedly led to the same end: politicians and policy makers using the public’s fear for its safety to push their own agendas. The recent terror attacks in Paris provide the American people with a chance to spark a new conversation about terrorism, and hopeful presidential candidates with an…

“The fact that 71 perfect of American voters in the 2014 midterms were worried about a terrorist attack in the U.S. homeland is an indication that violent groups like al Qaeda, the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are still hovering in the minds of many Americans” (nationalinterest.org). The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, is the type of organization that forces the world 's most powerful and professional military into action halfway around the globe. ISIS is…

Kopping. The film details the proliferation of radical Islam, how it threatens Western society, its parallels to Nazism through the targeted eradication of the Jewish population and the reluctance of Western civilization to collectively recognize Islamic radicals as a world wide threat. The documentary uses a significant amount of video and audio footage compiled from Arab television and media broadcasts, supplemented with the personalized accounts from individuals who are experts or have…

these vices. It seems every day, CNN reports a new terror attack, shooting, or bombing somewhere in the world and terrorism has grown and evolved into something everyone, even Americans, fears. People keep looking over their shoulder and the entire Islamic faith has been smeared. But people do not question the credibility of the threat or even asks about what terror groups to fear more than others. And when Americans are asked about terrorism, their lack of accurate information warrants…

pan-Islamist scholar Abdullah Azzam, who believed that Muslims should rise up as one islamic state and fight in jihad, or also known as the holy war. During this time, some Western ideology was starting to grow in the Middle East, and it was appalling for himself to watch. He believed that in order to protect the beliefs that the people of his country held so dearly, he would have to start up a radical pan- Islamic group to commit acts of symbolic terrorism to defend of Western propaganda. Later…

openings (Wiktorowicz) as explanations. Considering that Marc Sageman and Quintan Wiktorowicz advocate this theological-psychological model of radicalization, it comes as no surprise that the frameworks they use to lay out their works, Leaderless Jihad and Radical Islam Rising respectively, are similar. Starting…

declared war on all Americans. The first reason why Bin Laden’s assassination was justified is that he declared war on America. Ever since the United States was stationed in the Middle East, Bin Laden was furiated (History). In 1996, he declared a jihad against America, which is religiously sanctioned warfare. A direct quote from the proclamation clearly explains Bin…

screening religious groups for terrorists often mires attempts to counter this new mode of warfare. One editorial asks why the President has chosen to “stop targeting...the gravest domestic terrorist threat to Americans and to focus instead solely on Islamic terrorism” (factsstillmatter-cite), concluding that it is a political move to keep support. True or not, increased attempts to thwart terrorism are needed. Wartime should entail some disengagement from politics to focus on preserving life.…

May 2, 2011, the United States finally got revenge after ten long years. Osama bin Laden planned the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001. Our United States government started to plot out the prosecution of him in August of 2010 (History 1). We were watching the Abbotabad Compound (History 1), in Abbotabad, Pakistan, a town North of Islamabad (Bigelow 1). He was living in the compound with his family, friends, and protectors. He kept many files and hard-drives of all his…