... wealthy westerners while the middle class and intellectuals are drawn toward these radical groups in order to expel imported ideologies and forms of government. Radical Islamic organizations have declared a holy war, Jihad, in order to bring the Arab world together and take their place as a world power. In order to accomplish these goals, Islamic radicals have mainly used terrorism ... form of training, money, and weapons to a variety of terrorist groups, such as Hizballah, HAMAS, and the PIJ.Sudan is another large supporter of terrorist organizations. The Sudanese Government supports t...

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... common interests which is to follow Islam in its purest and most original form. Following the calamitous events of 9/11, the United States government investigated the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for any possible connections with Al Qaeda in view of the fact numerous airplane hijackers had Saudi Arabian ... groups because of Bin Laden's self-proclaimed affiliation. Such stereotypes were challenged during Al Jazeera Center for Studies' conference "Salafism in the Arab World: Perceptions, Trends and Challenges" held in Doha, Qatar January 18 and 19, 2014". The conference brought together exper...

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... towards their inception, their reputation as an powerful entity was solidified when they forcefully took control of the national government. The Taliban were not recognized as a formal government internationally with the exceptions of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Despite their lack of formal acknowledgement, international powers such as the United Nations took actions against the ... clinics. We want security.". (The insurgency in Afghanistan's heartland - Asia Report No. 207, 2011, p. 18) For these people who feel they have been failed by the government, the Ta...

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... the USSR, they were supplied full military resources and were given enough money to live a royal life but the conflict came just when the US army made its stations in Arab territory which gave a resultant of war. Part2 [main focus] Taliban's were basically the Pashtun group and were supported by nearly all the pathans of Afghanistan as well as ... Afghan authorities. Both the signatories of the Bonn Agreement and the United Nations Security Council have entrusted the U.N. with a great deal of responsibility in helping Afghanistan achieve a civilian representative government. The U.N. Sec...

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... . Al-Qaida is a network of many different fundamentalist organizations in diverse countries. Its primary ideology is the using of terrorism to attain their political goal and to overthrow western-influenced government and to replace them with Islamic regimes under the rule of Shariah, or Islamic law. In 1979, when the Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, Osama bin Ladin moved his business to ... Afghanistan and enter to his first part of holy war. He helped to recruit young Muslims from all over Arab world, and set up facilities to train them. The Afghan government donated land and resourc...

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... fundamentalist political party swept the board, taking the political world by surprise as no one predicted such an event. Despite this result, the election was declared a void as the ruling government did not recognize the result despite the fundamentalists wining over 70% of the vote. The country is now ravaged by civil war. Islamic fundamentalists believe that society such be ruled ... again in 1956 over the Straits of Tiran. 1967 also saw another war between Israel and it's Arabic neighbors, and again, victory was very comprehensive. All these wars illustrate that Arab nations such a...

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