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Osbat Al-Nour
Osbat al-Nour ( ar, عُصْبَة ٱلنُّور 'Band of Light') is an armed Islamist group that professes allegiance to a Salafist interpretation of Islam. Ain al-Hilweh 2003 In May 2003 fighting broke out between members of Osbat al-Nour and Fatah Fatah ( ar, فتح '), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist social democratic political party and the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and ... militia members in the south Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh as part of an ongoing series of battles for control of the Palestinian refugee camp. A serious clash took place on 17 May, after the near-fatal shooting of Osbat al-Nour leader Abdullah Shraidi, in which one of Abdullah's bodyguards and a bystander were killed. The shooting occurred while they were returning from the funeral of Ibrahim Shraidi, a family relative though a member of Fatah, who had been gunne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamism
Islamism (also often called political Islam or Islamic fundamentalism) is a political ideology which posits that modern states and regions should be reconstituted in constitutional, economic and judicial terms, in accordance with what is conceived as a revival or a return to authentic Islamic practice in its totality. Ideologies dubbed Islamist may advocate a " revolutionary" strategy of Islamizing society through exercise of state power, or alternately a "reformist" strategy to re-Islamizing society through grassroots social and political activism. Roy, ''Failure of Political Islam'', 1994: p. 24 Islamists may emphasize the implementation of sharia, pan-Islamic political unity, the creation of Islamic states, or the outright removal of non-Muslim influences; particularly of Western or universal economic, military, political, social, or cultural nature in the Muslim world; that they believe to be incompatible with Islam and a form of Western neocolonialism. Some a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
