How was Hezbollah changed from being a national resistant to being internationally recognized terrorist organization?
Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that originated in Lebanon in 1982. In just more than twenty years Hezbollah has proved itself to be an effective terrorist organization. Hezbollah is much more than just a terrorist organization. In Lebanon it has become a major political party and social force to be reckoned with, as well as a major supporter of other terrorist groups. Hezbollah is a powerful organization and this power has led to its dominance in the world of terror.
To most of the world, Hezbollah is known as a Lebanese Shiite militia that takes an anti-western stance, and despises Israel and the United States. To the Arabs, Hezbollah is known as a resistance group that provides socioeconomic and social services to Shiite communities is southern Lebanon.# The group as been held accountable for several attacks against Israel and Western targets, but yet provides social services in Lebanon by running hospitals, schools, orphanages, and media outlets. It has adopted the strategy of constantly altering public opinion by using a mixture of political and ideological agendas.# The group has adopted the strategy it has in order to continue growing and to remain relevant in both Lebanon and the global sphere,
What did they win- Hezbollah won most feared because of all the wealth and military power they have. Everyone in their country is afraid of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is a Shia militia in southern Lebanon that aims to destroy Israel in order to help spread Pan-Islam throughout the Middle East, get the Palestinians that are taking their land out of Lebanon, and repay the Israelis for their abusive occupation. Hezbollah’s actions are inspired by the principles of Shia islam that make the militiamen willing to die to become a martyr and to better Islam. Although Hezbollah is in Lebanon, it is largely an extension of Iran, who began funding them after their Islamic revolution in 1979.
Originally Somalia was on the road to a democratic government; the Somali people ratified a new constitution on July 20, 1961 and elected Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as president and Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as prime minister (“Italian Somaliland” 3). However, the British government failed to prepare the Somalis for independence. As a result, Somalia, though its goals were to unite and form a stable democratic government, has only cycled through corruption, from the autocracy of Siad Barre to Farrah Aydid’s corrupt rule in 1991, a government so destructive it was followed by anarchy (“Somalia Post-Independence” 1-3). Had European imperial powers not interfered in Somalia’s development, it might not have begun moving in the direction of a modern democracy but it would have remained functional and peaceful as an Arab sultanate. But since imperial powers did interfere, Somalia was not prepared to stand on its own when given independence, and as a result is in a volatile position and is widely regarded as a “failed state” according to the Economist (“Poll” 1). The turbulence in Somalia’s government that followed the period of imperial rule would not have occurred had Britain and Italy never interfered in the first place, thus showing that imperialism leads to governmental instability.
885). Downplaying the aggression, the country described the assailants as inspired by global jihadi rhetoric but were not connected to any global jihadi organization (Winter, 2011, p. 885).
Terrorism within or against the United States is not a new phenomenon. Our history is well documented with thousands of attempts and actual acts of terrorism that happened on U.S. soil. The first act of terrorism can be traced back to 1865 with the assassination of President Lincoln, but the first and boldest foreign terrorist attack occurred in New York City on February 26, 1993. Over 1,000 people were injured and six were killed when a group of Islamic terrorists detonated a rental truck equipped with explosives underneath the World Trade Center. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) later discovered that the explosion at the World Trade Center was a dress rehearsal for the most devastating and deadly terrorist attack to reach our nation,
The politics take center staged in Hollywood disconcerted in action are totally ignorant of pertinent facts pertaining to the danger looming the United States. Fabric of liberals danced and rapped to the Grammy inviting the Muslim free from consequences. Most of the population has no knowledge about the Islamic agenda. Furthermore; the rappers would do well to investigate the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, examine the ideology of Wahhabism propagated by Saudi Arabia and the intend to infiltrate Europe and US without firing a single shot. Let us take a look at the organization. The organization is the second largest inter-governmental organization throughout the world after the United Nations. The organization, founded in 1959 consisting
That satrapy is Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant organization sending fighters to Syria to support Iran-backed Shi 'ite militias battling Saudi-backed Sunni rebel groups that oppose Syrian President Bashar Assad. One of Hezbollah 's staunchest allies is the right-wing Christian Free Patriotic Movement, headed by Lebanese Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil.
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, told The Daily Telegraph Abedi was reported to the authorities two years ago "because he thought he was involved in extremism and terrorism. People in the community expressed concerns about the way this man was behaving and reported it in the
The Islamic State believes that it is a caliphate, and that all other states are illegitimate. ISIS clearly wants power over the Islamic World. Not only does ISIS clearly bring terror to the western world as seen with recent events, their targets also include Shiite Muslims (Humphreys). Conflicts between the two sects also stem back to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, which are also a part of a Sunni sect called Wahhabi. The Wahhabis destroyed Shiite shrines and publically denounced the Shiites for worshipping idols. In 2004, a Kuwaiti sheikh, Hamed al-Ali, condemned Shia as “the world’s biggest display of heathens and idolatry,” while the former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, once said that “the Shiites are a more pernicious enemy than the Americans, and the best strategy for Sunnis is to ‘strike their religious, military, and other cadres’”
The Syrian opposition who is trying to set up an Islamic rule of law in the country, contrary to the
Khomeini himself had created the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 1979. The Guard Corps is said to be charged with protecting the achievements of the regime. Loosely translated into another means of Khomeini protecting and extending his rule of Iran and the entirety of its entities. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, however, is very different and is separate from Iran’s “regular” military. There is said to even be a rivalry between the IRGC and the regular military in Iran due to the differing views of both branches and the fact that the regular military sees them as “secret police” whose sole intention is to repress the other armed forces. Adding fuel to the rivalry was the fact that in 1982, Khomeini sent IRGC troops into Lebanon to support Hezbollah, and supporting Islamic movements in neighboring countries ever since.
Domestically, The organization has deepened its political presence through ‘nationalizing’ the cause, and strengthening social networks, and expand military and media power that is giving rise to national symbols, and increased the Lebanese the public trust, as it used the media to emphasize the Israeli aggression against civilians, especially women, and children; resulting to the increasing of the number of Lebanese and regional supporters of Hezbollah in the conflict. Through the smart conduct of the psychological war and portraying the conflict with Israel as a national effort. (Conway, 2009)