Religious Terrorism
...Some militant Muslim groups such as the Wahhabi aim to rid the practicing faith of "popular" Islam through political values by enforcing the Koran (Wahabbi, 2005). Wahhabi was formed by Muhammad Wahhab who sent out to perform his "mission" by "being "forceful and strict in the practice of Islam (Wahabbi, 2005). Death was the immediate result for all "unbelievers" including Muslims and Christians (Wahabbi, 2005). Those who fought upholding their call to Jihad were given "Immediate entrance to Paradise" (Guide, 2001). Wahhab's main goal was to rid the misinterpretations and practice of mainstream Islam in which only condones fighting in the name of personal self-defense (Hunter, Daryl). Terrorist organizations such as the Wahhabi, Muslim Brotherhood, and Salafi take their religious practice to the extreme in the name of Allah. Allah is said to award Muslims who practice in this way the label of "Al-Jihad, the holy fighting in Allah's cause" (Bin Humaid, 2000). Bin Humaid states the three doctrines in which to obey Allah; with the heart, with the hand, and with the tongue (2000). These three doctrines are performed with the intentions that Islam will prevail using weapons and giving speeches in the name of Allah (Bin Humaid,2000). These groups or "religious extremist" call those who do not follow Allah under these three doctrines "infidels" and call for "every Muslim on earth to unsheathe their sword and fight in the name of Allah" (Hunter, Daryl). Away from mainstream Islam Salafi is a group that is very rigorous in their efforts to follow the strict Koran "free from an additions, deletions" (Salafi,2005). Most of these groups like Salafi practice their doctrine "rigid, but peaceful" Aggressiveness is through the practice Jihad Salafi which includes al-Qaeda trying to imitate the Prophet's behavior using violence in order to make the world convert to...
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