Islamic terrorism
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Islamic terrorism is terrorism dedicated, in the view of the terrorists involved, to supporting or spreading Islam. Modern Islamic terrorist groups are inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood. Some Islamic terrorists groups have employed suicide bombers, in spite of the comdemnation of suicide by Muslim religious authorities. These groups refer to suicide bomber attacks as martyrdom operations and the suicides are characterized as shohada (plural of "shahid"). The nature, extent and support for Islamic terrorism among the general Muslim population is subject to considerable debate and disagreement among Westerners.
A precedent of modern Islamic terrorism was the Hashshashin, a Islamic (Nizari) group from the Middle Ages that sent murderers ready to die against Crusader and Islamic rulers opposing them. Their lair was the Alamut fortress.
Omar Bakri Muhammad, judge in the Shari'a, or Islamic Law, Court of the United Kingdom, states:
We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity (Reuters)
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Islamic terrorist groups
- Abu Sayyaf, Philippines
- al-Qaeda, Worldwide
- Armed Islamic Group (GIA), Algeria
- AZF, France
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Egypt
- Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (IBDA-C), Turkey
- Hamas, Gaza Strip and West Bank
- Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami, Pakistan
- Hizballah, Lebanon
- Islamic Movement of Central Asia, Central Asia
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan
- Jemaah Islamiyah, Indonesia
- Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Philippines
- Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, Morocco and Europe
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Gaza Strip and West Bank
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References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Islamic_terrorism" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
