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Al Qaida Before And After Bin Laden

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Islamist’s jihadism around the mid 90s was inspired, organized and dominated by al‐Qa’ida. Afghan jihad was central on the rise to the rise of Al Qaida and to transnational jihad (the rise of Al Qaida). It brought an expansive concept of jihad that included terrorist attacks against western targets in western countries as well as in the Muslim world. They started a calculated planning against the U.S. and the western world. Nevertheless, al-Qaeda is driven, at its core, by political and not religious motives.
This group committed itself to a new active ideology and focused on targeting corrupt, non‐ believing, western countries that were supporting the local corrupt Muslim regimes. I see an Al Qaida before and after Bin Laden. The first one …show more content…

He openly accused Saudi Arabia of being punitive to Muslims, he remarked how Saudi Arabia imprissioned unjustly members of the ulama, as well as, the wave of “corruption, repression and intimidation” of the Saudi government in his Declaration of War Against American. Therefore, he stressed the emancipation of Saudi Arabia as being an American protectorate. Unlike the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaida focused in the far enemy and used “offensive jihad” in the guise of “defensive jihad.” In a 1998 interview Bin Laden stated, “(...) This is a defensive jihad. We want to defend our people and our land. That is why we say, if we don’t get security, the Americans, too, would not get security. This is the simple formula that even an American child can understand. Live and let live” (Wiktorowicz). For Al Qaida jihad is mostly, fard’ayn an individual …show more content…

Later on, the organization defined the term civilian in such a broader concept that made everyone living in a western democracy subject of an attack. For instance, regarding suicidal bombings Al Qaida extended to civilians instead of only military or political targets. Al Qaeda justification for September 11 and purposeful civilian targeting: individuals who support the government act as surrogates and representatives of the enemy; they are thus legitimate targets

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He suggested the king by writing the letter in detail about how to protect the country and he also compromised the king by using mujahedeen to defend the kingdom. This is how he used his ideology by helping Iraq fought Kuwait in order to collapse the Kuwait from his heart. Al Qaeda lost Osama Bin Laden, and Al Qaeda could not find a potential leader like he was. And another point, he is the source of funding. Analysts claim that al-Qaida of Osama Bin Laden received most of its funding from individual wealthy donors living in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United

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Many terrorist groups are inspired by religious or prophetic scriptures. Al-Qaeda and IS are the two groups that are related to justify their extreme actions against non believers. The IS wants to establish a Caliphate which means an Islamic-ruled state. How different terrorist groups act is informed by what they are trying to achieve. The IS, al-Qaeda and the Army of God ( a Christian anti-abortion group based in the U.S. sometimes adopt a reactionary perspective aimed at stopping or resisting social, economic, and political charges.

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As a result, in 1996, Osama Bin Laden declared war on the United States because he thought they were a threat. Bin Laden stated, “The U.S. today, as a result of the arrogant atmosphere, has set a double standard, calling whoever goes against its injustice a terrorist, It wants to occupy our countries, steal our resources, impose on us agents to rule us, and then wants us to agree to all this”(History.com- Al Qaeda). Bin Laden’s statement clearly

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As the founder of al-Qaeda, he “attracted… mujahidin (guerilla) fighters against real and perceived enemies of Islam” (Martin). Osama bin Laden is able to rise in power and form a government, typically under his rule. Muslims were able to overcome the challenges they faced when fighting the Soviet troops during the Afghan War, and believed that

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Al Qaeda had many goals which they desired to achieve which included getting Americans and Western influence out of Muslim countries(38).

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The operations, of AQ, target those people (and their property) it considers being kafir (non-Muslims and/or Muslims who are not true to their religion). These targets have been attacked in multiple ways, including the use of suicide bombers. Most of the attacks are conducted simultaneously, possibly to maximise the impact and cause widespread fear among the targeted people (Atran, 2010). Other than the 9/11 attacks, AQ, and its affiliates, have also been known for conducting other spectacular attacks, such as the US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya in August 1998, the 2002 Bali bombings, the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the London bombings in July 2005, resulting in all cases, in high numbers of casualties. The majority of attacks conducted by AQ have been against ‘soft targets’, consisting predominantly civilians and unarmed individuals.

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Al-Qaeda’s presence in Afghanistan was made possible by the Taliban, an organization that overthrew the government and is guilty of ethnic cleansing, numerous massacres, and purposely starving civilians. ("Afghanistan War"). The U.S. military fought with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda but their members would flee making it hard to find them in the mountainous terrain. ("Afghanistan War") Pain was inflicted upon innocent civilians in Afghanistan, similar to the pain civilians felt during September 11th. The goals of both the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are what Americans, especially Christians, view as evil and merciless.

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