Islamism
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Islamism is a range of religious and political ideological movements that believe that Islam should influence political systems. Its proponents believe Islam is innately political, and that Islam as a
Islamists' public demonstration in the United Kingdom for sharia, October 2009
Islamist demonstrators carry signs reading "Islam will dominate the world" and "To hell with democracy" in Maldives, September 2014
Al-Manār magazine, the most popular 20th-century Islamic journal that called for the restoration of the Caliphate
Algerian secularist journalist Tahar Djaout was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group
Osama bin Laden
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Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his killing in 2011. A Salafi jihadist, bin Laden worked to establish a pan-Islamist caliphate
Islamism
…later generations, among them Abdullah Yusuf Azzam and Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who was a student of Qutb's brother Muhammad Qutb and later became a mentor of Osama bin Laden. Al-Zawahiri helped to pass on stories of "the purity of Qutb's character" and persecution he suffered, and played an extensive role in the normalization…
Bin Laden, c. 1997–1998
Muhammad bin Ladin, Osama's father
Entrance to the Dubai headquarters of the Saudi Binladin Group
Al-Aqsa in East Jerusalem