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Jund Ansar Allah
Jund Ansar Allah ( ar, جند أنصار الله, rtl=yes, ) was an armed Islamist organization operating in the Gaza Strip. It was founded in November 2008. On 14 August 2009, the group's spiritual leader, Sheikh Abdel Latif Moussa, announced the establishment of an al-Qaeda inspired Islamic emirate in the Palestinian territories and criticized the ruling power, Hamas, for failing to enforce Sharia law. In response, Hamas attacked the organization, resulting in 24 people being killed, including Moussa, and Jund Ansar Allah ceased to exist. Background Jund Ansar Allah was established in November 2008 by Sheikh Abdel Latif Moussa, who had headed a Salafi organization in Gaza since the 1980s, and Khalid Banat (Abu Abdullah Suri), who claimed to have fought with leading al Qaeda figures including Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Jund Ansar Allah was an al-Qaeda inspired organization ideologically affiliated with the movement for global jihad. Moussa, an "Egyptian-educate ... [...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 State (polity), states and Administrative division, regions should be reconstituted in constitutional, Economics, economic and Judiciary, judicial terms, in accordance with what is conceived as a Islamic revival, revival or a return to authentic Sharia, Islamic practice in its Totalitarianism, totality. Ideologies dubbed Islamist may advocate a "revolutionary" strategy of Islamization, Islamizing society through exercise of state power, or alternately a "Reformism, reformist" strategy to re-Islamizing society through grassroots social and political activism.#ORFPI1994, Roy, ''Failure of Political Islam'', 1994: p. 24 Islamists may emphasize the implementation of sharia, Pan-Islamism, pan-Islamic political unity, the creation of Islamic states, or the outright removal of Kafir, non-Muslim influences; particularly of Western world, Western or Universal Declar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
