Comparing The Taliban, Al Qaeda, ISIS And The Naxalites

Contemporary ideologies are driven by their dependence on violence. There are four groups that demonstrate this trend, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, ISIS and the Naxalites. The Taliban are a far-right strict Islamic militant organization, located mainly in Afghanistan. The term Taliban means “students” in the Pashto language. The members are recruited mainly from the Pashto tribe and they strictly follow Sharia law and the Pashtun Wali. Al Qaeda is a Jihadist military organization, headed by Osama Bin Laden. The Al Qaeda ideologies come from both Sharia law and the personal beliefs of Bin Laden. ISIS is a Jihadist group and they seek to fight holy wars in order to protect their Islamic faith. They believe in Salafism which is the want to convert all

The Naxalites originate from West Bengal, India in the village of Naxalbari. They are tribal people known as Adivasi’s and they live with a close relationship to nature; they make up 8.4% of the India’s population (Burton). The Naxalites represent the poorest and most socially disregarded members of Indian society and they began their escapades in 1967 with the uprisings against the local landlords in West Bengal. The leaders of the Naxals are Kanu Sanyal, Charu Mazumdar and Jangal Santhal, their base operations are located in the remote forest areas in West Bengal, India (Burton). They have begun to take over eastern parts of India and they are active in 40% of India’s geographical region. The Indian government labels the Naxalites as terrorists in India and they seek to oppress them and their beliefs. This injustice is the driver of their ideologies and the violence they use to keep those beliefs in

The ideologies that these groups have are so extreme that they have no other choice but to use forms of violence to keep them in place. The western world has a hard time wrapping their heads around the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS beliefs because of the western world’s inability to understand they will do anything they can to put an end to the spread of these ideologies. The western way of life is seen as horrific in the Islamic state and these extreme Islamic groups are doing anything they can to keep it out of their state. These groups depend on violence to carry out the spread of their ideologies across the Islamic state because they are often times too extreme for people to willingly follow. The Naxalites are fighting against the Indian government in order to keep their political and social beliefs of Marxism and Maoism in place. The Indian government views the Naxalites as terrorist and they feel the need to rid India of this group of tribal people. The Islamic groups are similar to the Naxalites in the sense that they are all being targeted and criticized by outsiders for their beliefs and extreme ideologies. Extreme ideologies are kept in place through the use of violence to ensure total control and compliance from their people and to instill a sense of fear in their own nation and