The CIA even made Osama Bin Laden leader of this Jihad, back when he was an ally for the CIA. ... The CIA even made Bin Laden the leader of this jihad. ... America feared the Communist movement and wanted to stop its infiltration into Pakistan by leveraging the locals and giving them everything and anything they need to resist Russia. The United States didn't put enough thought into their actions and used powerful words to define the anti-communist movement that would have severe blow back. ... Not only did the CIA create a jihad for Afghan, they even made Bin Laden the leader of this Jih...

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The militant group Hamas, an Arabic acronym for The Islamic Resistance Movement, has been accredited with hundreds of suicide bombings and other related killings. ... It is known that Hussein's regime has had its own people executed, tormented for various reasons and then pleas with its citizens to love and look up to Leader. ... What is needed is widespread education informing the people on what is actually going on with their leaders. No sanitization, just unedited, raw coverage of what their leader is doing. ... The blind followers of corrupt governments are but addicts: addicted t...

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The militant group Hamas, an Arabic acronym for The Islamic Resistance Movement, has been accredited with hundreds of suicide bombings and other related killings. ... It is known that Hussein's regime has had its own people executed, tormented for various reasons and then pleas with its citizens to love and look up to Leader. ... What is needed is widespread education informing the people on what is actually going on with their leaders. No sanitization, just unedited, raw coverage of what their leader is doing. ... The blind followers of corrupt governments are but addicts: addicted t...

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Gamal Abdel-Nasser's unity movement was having a widespread effect across the Arab world, which caused a wave of threat to Arab governments around the Middle East. ... Different Lebanese leaders from different factions gathered in order to determine the fate of a post-war Lebanon and discuss amendments to the constitution. ... Leaders that ruled in Lebanon: The previous system of government somewhat differs. ... The Ta"if Agreement offered an amnesty to all different leaders to unite a Lebanese position. ...

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At his death in 632, Muhammad was the leader of an Arab state growing rapidly in power. ... The most powerful force remaining in Rome was its bishop, who became the leader of the Western church as waves of invading tribes swept into Europe and as the political power of Constantinople in the west declined. ... The Shiites are the only surviving major sectarian movement in Islam. ...

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This further proves that Osama's movement was an extension of his father's beliefs. ... To establish the strength and longevity of Al-Qaeda, this insight into Osama bin Laden's upbringing allows us to make the connection to the ideologies bin Laden established as one of Al-Qaeda's leaders. ... Scheuer (2011) illustrated how Islamic scholars influenced him into throughout his life: "Until well into the 1990s, a central aspect of Osama's faith was his belief that all Islamic scholars merited respect and that the best of them were the natural leaders in reforming Muslim...

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Throughout the post-classical era, several religions rose to prominence - and Islam stands out as the fastest growing religion during this time. In a few centuries, the originally Arab-centered religion grew to cover the expanses of western, eastern, and northern Africa, as well as huge territories ...

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For instance, Confucian teaches that good government is important and leaders should not be chosen because of relationships but on the basis of characteristics of ability and virtue and that the purpose of government should be for the happiness and total welfare of the people. ... My interest has been peaked to the point where I plan to study more about Islam, specifically the Islam movement in the United States. ... Lastly, I believe that in today's society there is so much negatively surrounding religion, religious organizations, and religious leaders that it is understanda...

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This is where he changed from a religious leader to something more of an equal rights or human rights activist. ... Other black leaders for civil rights would talk down to Malcolm and his followers because they hated white people, and wanted them to fight for civil rights. ... He had many personal troubles also bothering him, such as when his younger brother Reginald was silenced and removed from the Muslim movement. ...

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In an interview between Graehm and former leader of Al Muhajiroun, Anjem Chaudary, who has been known to vehemently defend the Islamic State, Chaudary stated that, before the caliphate, "maybe 85 percent of the Sharia was absent from our lives. ...

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In political terms, secularism is a movement towards the separation of religion and government (often termed the separation of church and state). ... However instead of strikes being are associated with intimidation, coercion and infringement on other people's freedom of movement, and as long as hartals inflict severe costs on the nation as a whole, attempts to justify hartals by invoking principles of "freedom" do not come across as convincing or credible. ...

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A crusade is a war fought with a religious purpose and at the calling of a religious leader. ... For the extremists in the Nazi movement it was not enough to remove Jewish people from Germany, they believed that Jews around the world would continue to plot the destruction of the German people. ...

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