Abu Dhar Azzam ( ar, أبو ذر عزام), also known as Abu Dhar al-Burmi ( ar, أبو ذر البورمي) and Abu Dhar al Bakistani (), is a
Rohingya Islamist cleric and a member of the
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).
Biography
Abu Dhar worked in Jamiah Farooqia, Karachi in 2004, before he joined the insurgency movement in Pakistan's tribal areas (
FATA). He has been a prominent member of the
Turkistan Islamic Party
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, the Pakistani Taliban and the
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
He was a former spokesperson for the IMU and a former member of the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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(ISIL).
Azzam is sympathetic to the
Rohingyas and supported them during the
2012 Rakhine State riots
The 2012 Rakhine State riots were a series of conflicts primarily between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, though by October Muslims of all ethnicities had begun to be targeted. The riots start ...
. He also congratulated the
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* Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (born 1993), Kyrgyz-born terrorist who perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, brother of Tamerlan
* Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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brothers for carrying out the
Boston Marathon bombing.
See also
*
Rohingya conflict
References
External links
Abu Dhar al-Burmi (''Jihadology'')
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Living people
Rohingya people
Rakhine State
Uzbekistani Islamists
Terrorism in Central Asia
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Pakistani people of Rohingya descent
Year of birth missing (living people)