Muslim Brotherhood

the importance of Jihad with sword more than Jihad with Soul thus promoting a movement against colonial and imperial western powers. The other prominent scholars that influenced the ideology of Al-Shabaab are Sayyid Qutb, Abdullah Azzam of The Brotherhood and Abu A'la Maududi of Jamaat-I-Islami. These scholars emphasized on the refusal to go under the rule of Kaafir government. Salafism as dominant ideology of Al-Shabaab has helped get Somalia into global politics and served as a uniting force…

corrupt leaders. In the book, Notes Toward A Performative Theory of Assembly, Judith Butler expresses that a key element of large, successful protests is “Bodies in alliance”. This is seen in the protest of the Egyptians, as men, women, and the Muslim Brotherhood come together to support each other to take down the corrupt…

is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. And Mecca being The most holiest city for muslims. Performing Hajj is one of the five pillars of islam, which includes Shahadah( Islamic creed belief that there's only one God), Salat( performing prayers) , Zakat(is form of Helping to the poor), and Sawm(fasting). Why is it important in Islam ? A: its designed to promote a gathering to form a bondage of brotherhood and sisterhood in Islam. And it indicates that everybody is equal in the eyes of…

Although generally perceived as only a threat to Israeli national security, with policy being created to reflect that, it is important to look at the other side of things. Despite the many obvious and potential negative impact that the Arab Spring could cause in Israel, many will also argue for the positive. Israel's former Military Intelligence, Amos Yadlin, stands firm with his hope for progression in the Arab Spring movement stating, "The long-term changes in the Arab world are a great…

religions. Even with such a large following, most people are still unaware of the practices and traditions of the Islamic culture. Muslims live a very structured life, with important events that take place each and every year. One of the topics that truly grabbed my attention was the Five Pillars of Islam. Each pillar containing a very important meaning that the Muslim people live by. As in every religion there are different practices that the participants of that particular religion live by and…

Saudi men do, naturally, he joined the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Help protect his country and do what he thought was right. For Osama, Islam was much more than a religion. It was a way of life, it was politics, it was what everyone needed to believe in. Islam is one of the world’s largest religions, with more than one billion believers. (4) While attending Saudi University, bin Laden met a professor, and leading member of the Islamic Brotherhood, Dr. Abdullah Azzam. During this time, bin…

influential in Jeddah. After this, he joined the Islamic Brotherhood or Al-Qaeda which was a radicalist islamic group, in which lead to the events of the World Trade Center’s attacks on September 11th, 2001.…

were worshipped. Muslims, the adherents of Islam, believe that the prophet Abraham was the first Muslim because he was the first to believe in a single God. The word Islam means the submission to God and Muslims use the Five Pillars of Islam as a belief framework to live life submitting to Allah’s will, these include The declaration of faith ("There is no deity but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God"), Prayer (Five obligatory prayers each day…

Religion did play a role as the emergence of Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, would ascend to be democratically elected as president of Egypt on 30 June 2012. Although trying to be a religiously tolerant nation by diversifying the government leaders, Morsi’s Islamic tendencies bled through and the populace started to…

terrorism and domestic and foreign affairs. Homeland security has the important task to watch out for citizens who want to behave in criminal behavior against the government or who wants to overthrow the government. Groups such as Isis and the Muslim brotherhood are terrorist groups that started in the Middle East,…