Islamic Courts Union

Throughout the 21st century Somali terrorists have terrorized the land and sea of the horn of Africa. Somalia is a country that has been plagued with civil war since 1986. In Somalia right now there are two major Islamic terrorist groups. Theses groups are known as Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda. From what these terrorist groups have done, Somalia is ;left with close to nothing to build it back up. Somalia cannot overcome this issue of terrorism because of Al-Shabaab, terrorists taking over the nation, and whole lot of national violence. Somalia has one of the most lethal terrorist groups in Africa. They are known all around the world as Al-Shabaab.. “Al-Shabaab is a Somali group that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in March 2008. It wants to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, according to the Council on Foreign Relations” (Yang). Al-Shabaab is a Islamic terrorist group that impose strict Islamic laws, which is called Shariah. Somalia adopted the law of Shariah in 2009 in hope to reduce all violence in the Islamic terrorist groups. Al-Shabaab uses violence to control the southern region of Somalia. Al-Shabaab is a big terrorist group that have a estimated amount of 1,000…

Hamas — Islamic Resistance Movement Hama is a Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organization of Palestinian nationality. The group was founded in 1987, and it’s original goal was to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the occupied Israeli territory of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Hamas’s headquarter is located in the Palestinian territory of Gaza. The group formed as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is known for being the first…

The insurgency is blamed for catastrophic attacks aimed against Somali nationals and foreign aid workers. In June 2006, members of Al Shabbab kidnapped four western aide workers and more than a dozen Somali’s. (Article, Fall of Mogadishu Leaves US Policy in Ruins, The Guardian 2006). This incident greatly affected the presence of aid workers in Somalia and has resulted in the African Union amending its policy on sending western aid workers into Somalia. Shabbab has also carried out car bombing…

The fluidity of calligraphy symbolizes the "intertwining" of stability and change that exists in the mortal world (Nasr 28). Islamic calligraphy has the appearance of a never ending line; the letters are all connected to one another and the writing seems to be constantly moving (Piostrovsky 29). The continual movement of the line "is one of the ways of manifesting [Allah] to this world" (27) and "projects the concept of continuity, of endlessness, of pluriformity" (29). The symbolism of…

They effected and violently forced the Islamic law. They also ruined many prehistoric books and documents and destroyed tombs, saying that worshipping the devil, violates the views of Islam. Meanwhile in September 2012, rebels equipped with aircraft weapons and rocket forced grenades fired at the Americans in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other group administrators (Canada, G ). U.S. administrator of state Hillary Clinton said the U.S. assumed…

On May 2, 2011 a team of U.S. Navy Seals invaded a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where they found and killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Since then People have condemned the invasion saying it was not moral for the Americans to go under cover and perform this secret act of retaliation to violence. This act of violence is morally permissible and can be proven through natural law theory and utilitarianism. It started back in 1993 with several bombings throughout the years on U.S. military…

CHAPTER FOUR: AQ’S CURRENT PLANS AND THEATRES OF OPERATION This chapter explores the current plans of AQ. To this end, it argues that the organisation might be planning to use either AQ in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) or al Nusra to carry out a terror attack in the West. With the increased movement of youthful fighters from the West to Syria and Iraq, it is highly likely that these could be part of the AQ plan to launch an attack in the West. The chapter also explores the theatres of operation…

end the month long fasting with the celebration of Eid- ul-fitr (EID). The Eid al-Fitr (the Feast of Fast-Breaking) is also known as the Eid as-Saghir (the Lesser Eid), and comes first in the Islamic calendar. Eid falls on the first three days after Ramadan (Noakes, Greg). Eid-ul-fitr “One of the most important holidays of the Muslim calendar lasts for three days. It is a festival of victory and faith, time for relaxation, of hope renewed, of strengthened resolution to do what is right, and of…

world, which do not strictly enforce a religiously-sanctioned political and social order, but that wasn’t the only thing they wanted.(9/11 Memorial)”. Osama started this group in Afghanistan camps by becoming stable in his financial system, supports, and knowledge(FRONTLINE). Al Qaeda main priority was to get rid of the United State being in their territory in Syria. The organization of Al-qaeda wasn’t just Islamic believers but civilians in different countries around the world, reports PBS…

Al Qaeda With the war on terrorism becoming more and more violent, US officials are looking for a way to stop the violence that Al Qaeda is inflicting on the United States of America. Al Qaeda isn’t a new problem to the United States. Al Qaeda is defined as “a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy: founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988” (Dictionary.com). “In approximately 1989, bin…