Formed from the ashes of Al Qaeda, an Islamic militant group, known as 'ISIS' or the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria", has risen to power in several Middle Eastern nations. ... The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, more commonly known as ISIS is an Islamic jihadist group that have recently gained notoriety. ... The majority of ISIS members are Sunni muslims, who are the largest branch of Muslim and have been involved in sectarian violence against Shi'a Muslims, who have a different ideology and have previously held power in Iraq and Syria. ... This propaganda also ent...

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These attacks are mostly Muslim hate crimes. ... Non-Muslim communities have offered a lot of support to worshipers. ... This article describes how cruel non-Muslim Americans and their children have become to the Muslim School students and teachers after September 11. Islamic schools are getting patrolled constantly by police. ... "Hate Acts Against Muslims Subside." ...

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When he turned 14, he joined the Muslim brotherhood, the largest and most influential islamist movement and the largest political opposition in most Arab states. Ayman took control of the Muslim Brotherhood following the execution of Muhammad Qutb on charges of conspiracy. Over a period of time, the Muslim Brotherhood joined other political cells and formed the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.Ayman graduated from Cairo University at the top of his class and went to work as a military doctor in the Egyptian Army. ... After the merger of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda, al-Zawahiri decided to becom...

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Christians against Muslims trying to gain control of Jerusalem. ... Muslims have caricatured the West (especially America) as the "Great Satan" because the worldly pleasures of Western culture are luring those faithful away from the true path of Islam. Muslims reject America's decadent values and sees America as a failed Christian nation. Osama personifies the way American values are eroding Islamic values by saying "American values are eating away at Muslims like acid". Hence, for Muslims who feel alienated, and attack against America can be seen as a triumph for Islamic values. ...

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Jihad is an Islamic term referring to a religious duty of Muslims. ... Understanding the various ways that Jihad has been interpreted throughout Muslim history will help one distinguish between extremist organizations and the majority of Muslims. ... Richard Bonney depicts that the jihad has two concepts which coexist: one is the Muslim's struggle against his or her own lower nature, the struggle within the self and the other is a more political concept, the Muslim view of 'just war'.1 This reference gave rise to the distinguishing of two forms of jihad: "greater" and "lesser"....

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They also mistakenly associate the violent acts that occurred on that day to the Islamic religion, since the terrorists claimed that they were fighting in the name of Islam. ... The Islamic faith is based on the values of peace and morality. It is against the Islamic faith to perform any acts of violence. ... However, the Taliban represents only a minute fraction of the arabic community and muslims. ... Arabs and Muslims who live in the United States came here because they admired and valued the freedom that we have. ...

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The tendency to associate Islam with terrorism among the policy makers in the United States has challenged the tensions between the US and Islamic countries or Muslim-majority countries and it eventually affects the global political order. Judiciousness of the majority Muslim state countries in responding the problem of terrorism often raise suspicion by the US and it causes international political pressure for Muslim state countries. As a result, the local government in these Muslim majority countries often face a dilemma between "task" in combating terrorism on the one hand, and the nece...

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This has been made so through radicalization and strong teaching of the Muslim faith to their youths who believe that those people who are not Muslims are pagans and therefore need to be engaged in 'jihad' or holy war. In addition to this, in this century, there are so many learned fellows who have failed to secure jobs and the only alternative solution that they have so far is to join Islamic terrorist groups. ... The reason being that the youths are taught in mosques where non-Muslims are not expected to be and so there is no way someone is going to suspect that radicalization and...

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First of all Grendle is a hated individual with an unprecedented amount of power, too much of the world mainly Arabic and Islamic nations this is exactly how the United States is perceived. ... Then came the coming of Beowulf a man who most likely unfamiliar to Grendle, Beowulf took Jute civilians and trained them to fight and not fear Grendle, much like how Osama Bin Laden trained and funded Arabic and Muslim civilians to fight and not fear the United States, also Osama bin Laden was a very obscure individual to many Americans before this weeks tragedy. ... I believe the views and examples of...

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The citizens of the country, before then rarely thought about Muslims, the Middle East, or terrorism in general, except for a few minutes a week, when it was a topic on the nightly news. Since the attacks, Americans thoughts about Islam, terrorism as well as security, have become a way of life. ... Four commercial airliners were hijacked by radical Islamic terrorists. ... One of the many threats that our country faces today is a radical terrorist group full of savages called "ISIS " or the Islamic State. ... ISIS is now taking radical Islam, as well as PURE EVIL to new heights with their bruta...

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In fact, since 9/11 American Muslims are less drawn to jihadism. ... These alienated individuals are more likely to listen to Muslim extremists and their propaganda that debase the true religion of Islam. In the U.S., Muslims are not as alienated, which makes them less susceptible to Muslim extremism. ... Finally, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as the plight of Muslims in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, have led to anger from Muslims around the world. ... Muslim extremists justify terrorist attacks by using these statistics. ...

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The university taught Osama the wide world of Islamic policies. ... While Osama was there he established the MAK (Maktab al-Khindimat) in order to recruit Islamic soldiers for the fight in Afghanistan. ... Osama was highly insulted that the Saudi government would let non-believers into the birthplace of Islam. ... His decree that he issued charged Americans of declaring war against Muslims. ... They have been able to create alliances with other terrorist groups to create the International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders which includes the Egyptian al-Gama"at al-Islamiyya, ...

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From their rise to power in 1996 the Taliban have been taking the Muslim/Islamic Religion to the extreme originally they only started with approximately one quarter of Afghanistan but before their fall from power in November 2001 they had taken control of most of Afghanistan, driving innocent people out of their homes, killing civilians including women and children and enforcing strict rules such as a woman must never leave the house without a close male relative as well as other things. ...

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Islamic state of Iraq and Syria is a terrorist organization lead by Al-baghdadi, if you don't, you should because they are extremely dangerous and are a threat to the United States. ... ISIS is a made up of Arab and Muslim terrorist organizations, Isis is most known for their beheadings, crucifixions, tortures, as well as rapes of innocent people, all the evidence can be seen online for everyone to see. ... But with the rise of the Islamic state, and the beheading of two Americans, Mr. ...

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When Al Qaeda was founded, it was dedicated to opposing non-Islamic governments (Pike). ... Al Qaeda also maintains moneymaking front organizations, solicits donations from like-minded supporters, and illicitly siphons funds from donations to Muslim charitable organizations (Jane) The threat that Al Qaeda poses on America and other countries is very significant. ... Al Qaeda and bin Laden serve as a focal point or umbrella organization for a worldwide network that includes many Sunni Islamic extremist groups such as Egyptian Islamic Jihad, some members of al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya, the ...

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