The following is largely excerpted from Chapter 1 of SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Humanity:
When you read books and articles about this topic, it is helpful to understand the terms:
o Jihad: Islamic holy war
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o Mujahidin: person who wages a jihad
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o Intifada: rebellion
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o Diaspora: migration away from ancestral homeland
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o Shiite: a Muslim of the Shia branch of Islam who believes in Ali and the Imams as the only rightful successors of Muhammad
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o Sunni: a Muslim of the branch of Islam that adheres to the orthodox tradition (yes, they don’t seem to be too different)
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o Fatwa: a decree handed down by an Islamic leader, as for example Ayatollah Khomeini, calling for the execution of Salman Rushdie in 1989, and bin Laden and Zawahiri and others in 1997 issuing the ruling to kill Americans and their allies, including civilians.
There are variations and sectarian differences, such as that represented by Wahhabism and Takfiri concepts, as for example, Al Queda may be considered the generic name for all those movements that have in common what is called the Takfiri ideology, but the above should suffice for this discussion.
Thus, the terror scorecard in the Middle East:
Terrorist Org..........Headquarters...Sect.......Living Notables
Al Queda..............Afghanistan...........Sunni.......Osama bin Laden
..............................and Pakistan...........................Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Taliban.................Afghanistan...........Sunni.......Mohammad Omar
Hamas..................Palestine..............Sunni.......Khaled Mashal
............................................................................Ismail Haniyeh
Palestinian
Islamic Jihad..........Syria...................Sunni.......Ramadan Shallah
.............................................................................(Ayman Al-Zawahiri)
Palestine
Liberation
Organization.........Palestine................Sunni......Mahmoud Abbas
Hezbollah.............Lebanon.................Shiite......Hassan Nasrallah
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