Al-Qaeda is the brainchild of Osama bin Laden. There was a strong connection between Osama bin Laden as a person and the influences in Osama's life that contributed to the ideologies of the global terror network Al-Qaeda. Osama bin Laden has been able to manipulate Islam to fuel his jihad. By analyz...
Her calm face is divided by the starkness of the cold, steel weapon and is laced with Islamic calligraphy symbolic of the Niqab, a more extreme veil that an Islamic woman must wear as it signifies her obedience to the male supremacy in Islamic culture. Her clothing and weapon make us question whether this woman has rejected her submissive female role to embrace violence. ...
With a Christian majority, it is no surprise that American news stations invariably credit Muslims with the proliferation of terrorist activity, while analogously extreme Christian factions are overlooked. ... Religious extremism, however, is not confined only to acts of violence; it is the violent side of the extremist spectrum, though, which endangers and causes anxiety among the global community. ... "5 Under sharia law, the State is obligated to administer takfir, or excommunication, to those who do not follow its extreme interpretation of Islam. ...
