| org Tawfik Hamid, an Islamic thinker and reformer who is the author of Inside Jihad: Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam | read the reader comments please |
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| These interactions encouraged the growth of the organization raising questions about the utility of engagement with such groups | Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who later became the second in command of al-Qaeda |
| He is currently working on a book on modern Muslim plans to resurrect the caliphate | |
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| A one-time Islamic extremist from Egypt, he was a member of Jemaah Islamiya, a terrorist Islamic organization, with Dr |
details This paper analyzes the factors that aided and hampered the growth and popularity of political Islam in Somalia by tracing the history of al-Ittihad al-Islamiyya.
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