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Studies in terrorism [32] [33] have noted that most Islamic terrorist attacks on the West are perpetrated by well-educated men living in the West, with an average age of 26 years. [32] AQAP also is aware of this, and Inspire magazine targets this demographic. One example is in the use of imagery and text in the operations of Abyan in the Fall ...
Samir ibn Zafar Khan (Arabic: سمير بن ظافر خان, Urdu: سمیر خان, December 25, 1985 – September 30, 2011) was a Saudi Arabian naturalized U.S. citizen, jihadist militant, and the editor and publisher of Inspire magazine, an English-language online magazine reported to be published by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
In Michigan, a burned Quran was found in front of the Islamic Center of East Lansing. Local police and the FBI were called in to investigate. Dawud Walid, director of Michigan's Islamic council chapter said, "This is no different than someone painting a swastika on a synagogue or burning a cross on a black church."
In July 2010, AQAP launched Inspire, an English-language magazine targeted to Muslim audience in the Western world who cannot understand Arabic. [8] [9] The magazine features guides and instructions on how to conduct lone wolf terrorist attacks in the West, as well as general AQAP propaganda and bylines from prominent al-Qaeda figures such as Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. [10]
The magazine appeared six months after Khan arrived in Yemen. [32] There have been seven issues of Inspire. [33] Khan died in the same missile attack that killed Anwar al-Awlaki and the future of the magazine is unknown. [16] Yousef al-Khattab and Younes Abdullah Mohammed, both American converts to Islam, started a group called Revolution Muslim.
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. The university traces its origins to 1853 [13] and has operated continuously on its Gainesville campus since September 1906. [14]
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