The Life and Death of Abdullah Azzam

Lea-Henry, Jed

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“…We Muslims are not defeated by our enemies, but instead, we are defeated by our own selves" would become true. [31] The infighting turned very al-Qaida-Islamic State centric although it involved most of Syria's Jihadi groups. The Islamic State narrative was that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was at fault for the conflict, famously claiming that "here we are extending our hands to you again, to be the worthy successor to the best predecessor; for the shaykh Usama bin Ladin united the Mujahidin upon one word, while you [al-Zawahiri] disunited them, split them and dispersed them in total dispersion".…”

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Global Jihadism after the Syria war / by Tore Refslund Hamming.

2019

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The period 2012-2018 is turning out to be an important transformative period for the global Jihadi movement, most importantly because of events in Syria but also resulting from Jihadists' ability to expand and take advantage of beneficial opportunity structures in other war theatres. The article identifies the most important trends of this period for the future evolution of Jihadism, namely the ideological evolution, Jihadism as a tangible political project, internal conflict, networks and training, the coming of a new generation of ideologues and technical evolution. Similar to previous transformative periods in Afghanistan and Iraq, the argument made here is that these six trends will have a long-lasting impact on the Jihadi movement and guide the behaviour of groups and individuals for years to come.

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Global Jihadism after the Syria war / by Tore Refslund Hamming.

2019

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

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2020

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Is there a problem with your car?' I asked. A member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Amman, whom I had just interviewed, insisted on driving me home, but we were moving so slowly that I could not help but think that his car was not in mint condition anymore. We were certainly not going any faster than 40 kilometres per hour and other cars were passing us left andthis being Ammanright, often loudly sounding their horns. Moreover, the car was producing such an amount of noise that suggested it was being powered by a jet engine, whichgiven our lack of speedwas clearly not the case. Despite all this, my host answered my question by saying: 'Oh, the car is fine. I am just driving slowly because Islam teaches us not to break the speed limit.' At first glance, such a response may look odd. My sense was, however, that this was merely the umpteenth example of a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan trying to reassure this non-Muslim researcher that Islamdespite what I might possibly thinkwas really a force for good and that the Brotherhood itself was a law-abiding organisation. Although I do not believe that I had given the group's members the impression that I thought anything to the contrary, this reassurance, that the Muslim Brotherhood and Islam in general were not evil, was an almost constant refrain in my meetings with them, which should not come as a surprise. Despite its being repressed in much of the Arab world, the Brotherhood has a reputation of being a powerful and conspiratorial group, working behind the scenes to infiltrate Western governments such as the administration of former American president Barack Obama. 1 As several scholars have pointed out, such a tendency to ascribe secret agendas and hidden conspiracies to the Brotherhood is by no means exceptional. 2 This impression "Double Talk" and the Ways of the Shariʿa in France', in The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe, ed.

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

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The Life and Death of Abdullah Azzam

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Global Jihadism after the Syria war / by Tore Refslund Hamming.

Global Jihadism after the Syria war / by Tore Refslund Hamming.

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