History and Radicalization of Islam

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History and Radicalization of Islam

• By SA Russell F. Baker
• FBI El Paso Division

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The True Believer
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JAHILIYAH

• Tribes and Clans (Quraysh Hashim/Umayyad)
• Mecca

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The True Believer
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MECCA

• Polytheism
• Allah

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MUHAMMAD

• Birth 570 AD
• Khadijah
• Vision 610 AD
• Vision 620 AD

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Five Pillars of Islam

• Shahada - confession that there is no God but
  Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet
• Selah - ritual prayer
• Zekah - alms for the poor
• Sawm - fasting, especially during Ramadan (the
  month when Gabriel revealed the Koran)
• Haj - pilgrimage to Mecca

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MEDINA

• Hejira 622 AD
• Political Figure
• Umma

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WAR WITH MECCA

• Battle of Badr - 624 AD
• Battle of the Ditch 627 AD
• Surrender of Mecca 630 AD
• Death of Muhammad 632 AD

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SUCCESSION

• Rashidun
• Abu Bakr
• Umar
• Uthman
• Ali

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CIVIL WAR

• Ali/Muawiyah
• Karbala 680 AD

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TAQI AL-DIN AHMAD IBN TAYMIYYA

• Ibn Taymiyya (1263 - 1328)
• Islam has strayed
• Personal Piety Sharia
• Jihad as 6th Pillar

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MUHAMMAD IBN ABD AL-WAHHAB

• Restored work of Ibn Taymiyya
• Alliance with Muhammad Al-Saud

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INVASION OF NAPOLEON

• Egypt (1798-1799)

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WORLD WAR I

• Ottoman Turks
• British Strategy
• Dissolution of Caliphate 1922

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HASSAN AL - BANNA

• Formation of Muslim Brotherhood 1926
• Restore Caliphate
• Reject Western Democracy

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WORLD WAR II

• Holocaust
• Pressure to create Israel

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ARAB ISRAELI WARS

• Formation of Israel - 1948
• Suez Crisis - 1956
• Six-Day War - 1967
• October War - 1973

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SAYEED QUTB

• Human Rule is Illegitimate
• Live in Jahiliyah again
• Change must be sudden and violent

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QUESTIONS

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