Directory of Extremism Resources

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The ideologies behind radical Islamic movements that resort to militant or terrorist acts in an effort to force pure Islamic law on others. Also the development of these ideologies and how they differ from modern and traditional Islam.

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• Opposing Views

Resources in This Category

• Christian Science Monitor: The Tenets of Terror

  http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1018/p1s2-wogi.html
  The ideology of jihad and the rise of Islamic militancy. List of Islamic extremist groups [PDF] and links.

• Jammu-Kashmir.com: Religion of the Jahiliya: Jihadism is Kufr, not Islam

  http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/insights/insight9908.html
  Sultan Shaheen discusses the emergence of a new religion, similar to pre-Islamic Jahiliya, in Pakistan and practiced by the Taliban which has as a basic tenet that all non-Jihadists are kafir and deserve to be killed.

• Jammu-Kashmir.com: The Command of War in Islam

  http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/insights/insight20000804a.html
  Khalida Adeeb writes about people who wage war against their supposed enemies and justify these actions by citing those Quranic verses, yet there are clear reasons why their fighting does not fall into the category of jehad fi Sabilillah (in the name of God).

• Jammu-Kashmir.com: Understanding Jihad

  http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/insights/insight20000704a.html
  Farida Khanam explains the Arabic meaning and the Islamic connotations of the word.

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