Jihadist groups not categorized elsewhere
Modified 20 April 2004
David Blankenhorn wrote a very good overview of the
terminology of jihadi or jihadist
[see Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb 2003, section 2, pp 1, 3, 4]
showing that those labeling themselves as jihadi
are "a minority of a minority of a minority",
a statistically insignificant fraction of Muslims:
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A Muslim is an adherent of the
religion of Islam -- the word Muslim
literally refers to a surrenduring to the will of God.
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A small minority of Muslims are
Islamists,
meaning that they view Islam as an idealized model
of political and legal systems,
and want Islam as a national religion.
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A small minority of the Islamists,
a minority that itself is divided into
several ununified factions,
are
Salafists,
meaning Revivalists,
that look to an unchanged model of Islamic law and
practice based on the experiences of the
Prophet Muhammed.
The Salafists are split into so many factions
because of disagreement over just what the
historical model should be.
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Among the Salafists, a very small fraction
call themselves
Jihadis,
and feel that violence is justified in the
establishment of the Salafist ideal.
Jihad is a classical Islamic term
with multiple meanings,
and this is a misuse of its primary meaning.
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Among the Jihadis,
only a few are also
Takfiris,
who believe that violence is justified against
all non-Jihadis, even other Muslims.
Osama bin Ladin, al-Qaida, and their allies
are Takfiris.
The following pages are
generally pro-violence and anti-western,
many are all in Arabic or otherwise difficult to impossible
for me to categorize.
Many were found by following links in lists found at
overtly pro-al-Qaida pages.
Quite likely most belong in some other category,
but I'm not sure where to file them...
Can anyone help?
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