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In the disagreement over whether al-Qaeda's objectives are religious or political, Mark Sedgwick describes al-Qaeda's strategy as political in the immediate term but with ultimate aims that are religious. [190] On March 11, 2005, Al-Quds Al-Arabi published extracts from Saif al-Adel's document "Al Qaeda's Strategy to the Year 2020".
Online youth radicalization is the action in which a young individual or a group of people come to adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious ideals and aspirations that reject, or undermine the status quo or undermine contemporary ideas and expressions of a state, which they may or may not reside in. [1] Online youth radicalization can be both violent or non-violent.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQY), [a] also known as al-Qaeda in the Land of Yemen (AQLY) [b] and al-Qaeda in the Southern Arabian Peninsula (AQSAP) [c] in its later iteration, was a Sunni Islamist militant organization which existed between 1998 to 2003, and 2006 to 2009.
Terrorism and social media refers to the use of social media platforms to radicalize and recruit violent and non-violent extremists. According to some researchers the convenience, affordability, and broad reach of social media platforms such as YouTube , Facebook and Twitter , terrorist groups and individuals have increasingly used social media ...
To effectuate his beliefs, Osama bin Laden founded al-Qaeda, a pan-Islamist militant organization, with the objective of recruiting Muslim youth for participating in armed Jihad across various regions of the Islamic world such as Palestine, Kashmir, Central Asia, etc. [10] In conjunction with several other Islamic leaders, he issued two fatwas ...
By utilizing social media, the organization has garnered a strong following and successfully recruited tens of thousands of followers from around the world. [1] [2] In response to its successful use of social media, many websites and social media platforms have banned accounts and removed content promoting the Islamic State from their platforms ...
Al-Qaeda: Author(s) Osama bin Laden [1] [2] Purpose: Justifying al-Qaeda's war against United States as defensive Jihad against U.S. aggression [3] [1] [4] Promising the escalation of war until the withdrawal of American forces from Muslim lands [1] [3] Criticism of American cultural values, support for Israel and for their government [1] [5]
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Kabylie Mountains, Algeria: Abdelmalek Droukdel: 800–1,000+ [59] 200+ AQIM is a Sunnī Islamist and militant terrorist organization which aims to overthrow the Government of Algeria and replace it with an Islamic state. Al-Mourabitoun a.k.a. al-Qaeda West Africa: Mali, Niger, and Libya: Mokhtar Belmokhtar ...