The Alawites, A Religious Sect Within The Middle East And A Branch Of Islam

Race and religion are two concepts in American culture that can really tie people together, or clearly separate them apart. A group forged by strong common roots in both race and religion can be a powerful societal force, if it wants to be. The Nation of Islam is a small but growing religion in America that has become somewhat of a social movement because of its strong and radical ideas on race. In this paper, I will try to explore the beliefs of the Nation of Islam, and the ramifications it could and has had on racial relations in America. The Nation of Islam, or NOI, is a relatively new religion. The first temple of Islam was established in Detroit by Master Fard Muhammed in 1930. Much

Last but not least is a religion that has about one point five billion followers and is the purest of the western monotheisms, Islam. Most of the people who follow Islam are located in Indonesia. The meaning of Islam stands for submission, in Islam people are too submit themselves to God. Islam is monotheistic because they believe in one God, which Allah is believed to be “the God” while a man named Muhammad is Gods prophet. Muhammad was known to spread the message of monotheism while many people were still polytheistic. He fled to to a city called Medina to escape persecution. This was a huge event for the religion and was the start of the first year of the Islamic calendar. Similar to Christianity, Islam has a very important scripture that

Al Qaeda, the organization that the United States is in a constant, never ending battle with, the organization that has made the most impact and changed the United States forever. Al Qaeda is always making headlines with their terrorist attacks, the most known attack September 11th, 2001. This essay is about the terrorist group Al Qaeda, its history and background, Osama bin Laden, their well-known leader, and the major attacks on America.

Al Qaeda is a network with global reach and is reinforced by its ties to Sunni extremist networks. Until the American-led attack, Afghanistan was where Al Qaeda's base of operation, logistics, and training facilities were. Al Qaeda has since branched out and has cells or collaborators found in south Asia, Southeast Asia, the

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists who were members of the Islamic terrorist organization named al-Qaeda, hijacked four commercial airplanes and committed suicide attacks against the United States. Two of the planes were ran into the towers of the World Trade Center (Twin Towers) in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks resulted in mass death and destruction, triggering the United States initiatives to fight terrorism and defend our country. Over 3,000 people were killed during the attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., among these people were more than 400 police officers and 300 firefighters, these heros lost their lives

one is Dar al-Islam - furthermore the other is Dar al-Harb. Either you are a Muslim plus fit in to the dwelling of Islam, or you are of the dwelling of war and to be discarded as well as dreaded. To live external of Islam places you at peculiar with your society, your persons, and your principles in addition to your God. They fear each who exists in this odd globe that lives comparable to Islam except is within resistance to it (Inglehart, & Norris, 2002, p. 27).

Al-Qaida formed for opposition to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In the 1980s, Bin Laden and the Palestinian religious leader Abdullah Azzam recruited, trained, and financed fighters from more than fifty countries (Jayshree Bajoria, 2012). Osama bin Laden wanted these fighters to continue the "holy war" outside Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden opposed the continued presence of American military forces in Saudi Arabia, and also opposed the presence of non-Muslim troops near the Islamic holy cities, so he then formed the terrorist organization Al-Qaida in 1988 to fight back (Jayshree Bajoria, 2012). In 1992 Bin Laden issued a declaration of war against the United States (Carafano, 2012)

The historic kingdom under the rule of the paramount ruler or nyim consisted of a confederation of various people dating to the seventeenth century.It was among the last examples of the stately courts that once thrived throughout central Africa. To the present day the Kuba peoples, who live in Democratic Republic of Congo( formerly Zaire), retain the powerful person of the nyim,the royal court and system of title holding. (cite hampton museum)

Al-Qaeda is an international terrorist organization that was founded in the late 1980’s by Osama bin Ladin and Abdullah Azzam. The organization is still currently active today, even though it has become largely decentralized with the deaths of many of its leaders following their attack on the twin towers in New York City, on September 11th, 2001. Al-Qaeda was founded towards the end of the Soviet Union’s attempted expansion into Afghanistan. The group was initially a secret society did not even say their name, because a Dr. Hunter told us in class if an organization becomes well known government will seek them out an destroy them before they have a chance to do something.

Al-Shabaab as a terrorist group poses a significant threat in Somalia and in the global community. This paper will start by discussing the background. In this part the paper will show how the group has evolved from Al-Ittihad Al-Islam (AIAI) to the Islamic Court Union (ICU) and lastly to Al-Shabaab. Before discussing the group’s threat of national security, homeland and international, this paper will provide the conceptual meaning of key terminology, such as national security, homeland security, international security and globalization. It is important to understand these concepts before moving toward the main argument of the paper. After providing the framework for key concepts, the paper will discuss the group’s threat to Somalia in two areas, national security and homeland security. The paper will go further and identify the threats posed by the group on other nations’ homeland security and international security. We will use East African countries and the United States examples. The paper will provide evidence to support how globalization has shaped and fueled the threats from Al-Shabaab. It will then discuss the primary response from the United States and from African countries through AMISOM. The paper will provide the way forward and suggestions for the response of the international community to Al-Shabaab. In conclusion, we will try to alert the international community that although the group has been experience hard times in Somalia, it is unwise to

III. The payment of tribute also came with certain political “benefits” for those under the rule of both the Moslems and Spaniards (pp. 84 – 88).

Around 2,043 people have been killed by ISIS; a well known terrorist group that has influenced and took part in many terrorist attacks. They have conducted/inspired more than 140 terrorist attacks in 29 countries other than Syria and Iraq ISIS is a militant group that has taken over most of Syria and Iraq and their goal is to establish a caliphate. This terrorist group originated from another terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, that is originally from Afghanistan. From Al-Qaeda, ISIS tried making their group a better version of Al-Qaeda by learning how they did things in their organization. ISIS is a founding group in what today is known as terrorism.

Formed in November 2011, a Foreign Terrorist Organization was created to function under the sharia law, they are now known as

of the intimate ties of the three Abrahamic faiths in the region. The middle east is the birthplace of the world’s three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The fact

The first thing that one should know and clearly understand about Islam is what the word "Islam" itself means. The religion of Islam is not named after a person as in the case of Christianity which was named after Jesus Christ, Buddhism after Gotama Buddha, Confucianism after Confucius, and Marxism after Karl Marx. Nor was it named after a tribe like Judaism after the tribe of Judah and Hinduism after the Hindus. Islam is the true religion of "Allah" and as such, its name represents the central principle of Allah's "God's" religion; the total submission to the will of Allah "God". The Arabic word "Islam" means the submission or surrender of one's will to the only true god worthy of worship "Allah" and anyone who does so is termed a