Sociology 4437F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Online Magazine, Kalle Lasn, Belongingness
22 Mar 2016
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2 branches of islam, proposing successors to the prophet sunni (own leaders) and shia (descendants [black turban]: countries/regions split by sunni/shia. Salafanism: fundamentalist sect of sunni branch: group deines salai-jihadism on two criteria: Belief violent jihad is fard"ayn (a personal religious duty) Fard"ayn obligaions charity, pilgrimage, daily prayers, fasing in ramada, acceping. Muhammed as god"s messenger: jihad not one of the ive pillars, jihad: to struggle or to strive. Used to refer to struggles against oppression. Just war: rules that forbid targeing of innocents. Al qaeda: the base": soviet union tries to take afghanistan out of desire for warm water port, become locked into war of atriion. Afghans had extensive backing from us and saudi arabia. Bin laden (wealthy saudi-yemeni), along with zawahiri and atef, organized against soviet atack on their muslim brothers": used wealth/connecions to recruit young men as ighters (mujahedeen, batle lasted 10 years soviets withdraw in 1989.
