Jihad

Usama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born March 10th, 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. While bin Laden's story has been an American nightmare, his fathers was “the American dream”.(4) Bin Laden was the twelfth child out of fifty-two children born to wealthy business man, Mohammed Bin Laden. Mohammed owned a large construction and shipping company, Saudi Binladen Group, which worked with products such as Snapple, General Electric, and many other big name brands. His company shipped these…

possibility (Jenkins, 2015). Currently, the al Nusra is also likely to be used by the original AQ leadership to attempt attacks in the US through the use of foreign-based fighters. Given the large number of fighters from the West who have gone to fight the jihad war in Syria and Iraq (Gray, 2015), it is only natural to expect that AQ might be planning to make use of these fighters, upon their return to their home countries in the West, to launch spectacular attacks there. Therefore, the issue of…

qualified cadre about the political activity in the framework of the general activity of the organizations, in accordance with sharia law. The media committee, or the information committee, is the propaganda arm of the organization. It spreads the jihad ideology to the Muslim population. It has a computer department and several subunits that act as a printing press, a translations branch, a photography branch, and an archives branch. Its media production house is the Foundation for Islamic…

not cease fighting for the Truth— they shall be triumphant over their opponents” (Hadith, “Struggle”, 116), but only one sentence is not enough to demonstrate that Islam is radical. Actually, people have such misconception is because the meaning of Jihad is distorted. It should not be interpreted as “holy war”, but “a struggle for Allah” (Smart and Hecht, 115). This struggle is not necessarily a fight with weapons, but a defense of their own belief. Muslims are taught “Do not be aggressive, for…

Modern society is characterized by dynamic and sophisticated changes in terrorism activities. As a result, terror cells such as al-Qa’ida are a major threat among policymakers, intelligence agencies, and multinational firms in the United States. The U.S. government is continuously formulating policies of gathering intelligence against terror groups. For instance, the U.S. has formulated the Counter Intelligence Centre (CIC) to facilitate the monitoring and intelligence collection against this…

He began to follow the teachings of pan-Islamist Abdullah Azzam, who believed all Muslims should wage a holy war, or Jihad, on the entire world to create one Islamic state. Because he saw the Western world influencing the Middle East, the idea appealed to him. At this point, Osama bin Laden became significant. He built the terrorist group al-Qaida from the ground up…

This chapter explores how other jihadist groups, notably ISIL, are likely to impact the standing and operations of AQ. It seeks to determine the likely impacts on AQ caused by specific actions by these other groups such as their recruitment and support. In doing so, emphasis is placed on two main aspects. These are the effects of other jihadist groups on the recruitment of AQ and the extent to which, if at all, competition between AQ and these other jihadist groups can push AQ into carrying a…

Although it overlaps with Sageman’s arguments, Wiktorowicz’s approach to radicalization is relatively more complex; among other things, he introduces the ‘cognitive opening’ theory, a crisis “that shakes certainty in previously accepted beliefs and renders an individual more receptive to the possibility of alternative views and perspectives.” The crisis can instigate a cognitive opening. This can take a variety of forms, depending on the individual, but when related to Islamic movements, the…

today regarding Muslims and Islam circles around the term jihad. Often, the term “jihadist” is tagged to groups of individuals that employee extreme terrorist tactics. As a result, through Western eyes, jihad is violent Islam; Islam as a religion encourages practitioners to engage in jihad via terrorism. While many Muslims do emphasize jihad as an important aspect of their faith, in many cases, it does not imply violence or terrorism. Jihad was not originally intended to be a rationale for the…

Al Qaeda According to BBC News, “Many volunteers from Arab countries had gone to Afghanistan during the 1980s. They wanted to help the Afghans fight the invading Russian army. When the Russian army was defeated, al-Qaeda was set up to continue the Jihad against people the volunteers thought were enemies of Islam.” Al Qaeda allies include…