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Parent topics

• Radical Islamism [r]: From the perspective of Western liberal democracy, the use of both political and violent methods to establish Islamist theocratic rule, either in existing democracies or in emerging states ^[e]
• Steven Emerson [r]: U.S. journalist and terrorism investigator whose work goes back to the early 1990s; variously called one of the early recognizers of radical Islamists in the U.S., while other say he is biased as a conservative and an Islamophobe ^[e]

Subtopics

Groups studied

• Abu Nidal Organization [r]: A now-inactive, but much feared in the 1980s, secular Arab nationalist group in the Middle East, whose primary enemies were the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization ^[e]
• Abu Sayyaf Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Al-Badhr Mujahedin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Al-Ittihad al-Islami [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Al-Jihad [r]: An Egyptian insurgent group, whose name translated as Holy Struggle ^[e]
• Al-Qaeda in Iraq [r]: A Salafist group, formerly independently under the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, now affiliated with al-Qaeda ^[e]
• Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. ^[e]
• American Muslim Alliance [r]: A Political Action Committee focused on creating and electing Muslim-American candidates ^[e]
• Ansar al-Sunna [r]: A Sunni extremist group of Iraqi Kurds and Arabs intent on establishing a Salafi Islamic state in Iraq; affiliated with al-Qaeda in Iraq ^[e]
• Armed Islamic Group [r]: An apparently dormant Algerian jihadist movement, formed in 1992 when the secular government outlawed the Islamist party that won the legislative elections; members now may be affiliated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ^[e]
• Asbat al-Ansar [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Council on American Islamic Relations [r]: Self-described as a Muslim American civil liberties and advocacy group, which makes its audited finances public, a group that has been challenged as a militant Islamic front by generally ideological critics ^[e]
• East Turkestan Islamic Movement [r]: A militant Islamist group, not the only one in the area, which calls for secession from China's Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region, usually called Turkestan, and the creation of an Islamist state ^[e]
• Hamas [r]: The most powerful political and military organization in the Occupied Territories, especially the Gaza Strip; offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood but not Salafism ^[e]
• Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami [r]: An Afghan Deoband group formed in 1980 to fight the Soviets; affiliated with the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and al-Qaeda ^[e]
• Harakat ul-Mujahedin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Harakat-ul-Jihad-I-Islami (Bangladesh) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hezbollah [r]: An Islamist and Shi'a group, centered in Lebanon, which has conducted terrorism there and worldwide, but also acts a shadow government and provides public services ^[e]
• Hezb-i-Islam Gulbuddin [r]: The Afghan and Pakistani insurgent organization, a faction that broke from the Islamic Party of Afghanistan, controlled by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar; involved in talks with the Karzai Government ^[e]
• Hizbul-Mujahedin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Islamic Army of Aden [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Islamic Circle of North America [r]: An overt U.S. organization that advocates worldwide Islamist rule; member of the American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections ^[e]
• Islamic Great Eastern Raiders–Front [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Islamic Jihad Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan [r]: A Central Asian jihadist movement, centered on the Ferghana Valley, where the borders of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzistan, and Tajikistan meet; affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda and may be based in Afghanistan ^[e]
• Islamic Society of North America [r]: A U.S. organization describing itself as building bridges within the diversity of Islam and among people of faith; accused of being a Saudi front ^[e]
• Jaish-e-Mohammed [r]: A Pakistani jihadist group focused on Kashmir; formed with assistance of Inter-Services Intelligence; listed as a terrorist organization by the United States ^[e]
• Jamaatul-Mujahedin Bangladesh [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jamaat al-Islamiyya [r]: An Egyptian jihadist organization, derived from the Muslim Brotherhood, which conducted terror operations primarily in Egypt in the 1990s; it has renounced violence but members have affiliated with al-Qaeda and other groups ^[e]
• Jamiat ul-Mujahedin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jemaah Islamiya [r]: A jihadist group in Southeast Asia, affiliated with al-Qaeda in the common goal of establishing a caliphate ^[e]
• Kahane Chai [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kumpulan Mujahedin Malaysia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lashkar e-Tayyiba [r]: (LeT); A Pakistan-based Jihadist group focused on Kashmir, widely banned as a terrorist organization, and possibly responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks ^[e]
• Lashkar-e-Jhangvi [r]: (LeJ); A Jihadist group that is both Pakistan-based and operates in Pakistan, as opposed to Lashkar e-Tayyiba, which targets Kashmir and India; it is a more extreme faction that broke away from Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan in 1996 ^[e]
• Libyan Islamic Fighting Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Muslim Alliance in North America [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Muslim American Society-Freedom Foundation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Muslim Brotherhood [r]: An Islamic political group, formed in Egypt and increasingly part of the political system there, which has worldwide branches; it may be moving from a Salafist ideology to a more mulilateral one ^[e]
• Muslim Public Affairs Council [r]: Formed in 1988; identifies as a public affairs organization working for the civil rights of American Muslims and their integration into the American political process; Robert Spencer, at DiscoverTheNetworks, dismisses it as claiming its chief enemy as Steven Emerson and his Investigative Project on Terrorism rather than terrorist groups; called anti-Israel by Anti-Defamation League; has allied with American progressive groups ^[e]
• Muslim Students Association-National [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Muslim Ummah of North America [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Palestine Liberation Front [r]: Palestinian terrorist group, political rather than Islamist, formed in 1958, part of many alliances, and now generally inactive ^[e]
• Palestinian Islamic Jihad [r]: A Sunni organization dedicated to the destruction of the State of Israel, not part of the Palestinian Authority or offering services in the Occupied Territories, with offices in Syria and Yemen ^[e]
• People Against Gangsterism and Drugs [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [r]: Palestinian Marxist terrorist organization, founded in the 1970s, variously at odds with and allied to Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization; Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command split from this group ^[e]
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command [r]: Marxist Palestinian terrorist organization that split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1968 ^[e]
• Rajah Sulaiman Movement [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat [r]: Former name for Algerian radical Islamist group, now Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ^[e]
• Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan [r]: (SSP); A Jihadist group that is both Pakistan-based and operates in Pakistan, as opposed to Lashkar e-Tayyiba, which targets Kashmir and India; it spawned the more extreme Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in 1996 ^[e]
• Special Purpose Islamic Regiment [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tunisian Combatant Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Turkish Hizballah [r]: Add brief definition or description

"Apologists and extremists" studied

• Omar Ahmad [r]: Co-founder, Council on American Islamic Relations; unindicted co-conspirator, U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation ^[e]
• Salam al-Marayati [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Yusuf al-Qaradawi [r]: An influential Islamist cleric based in Qatar, opposed to al-Qaeda but supportive of other radical movements; extremely active on the Internet ^[e]
• Nihad Awad [r]: Executive Director and Advisory Board, Council on American Islamic Relations; 1997 Vice President Al Gore’s Civil Rights Advisory Panel to the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security; 2000 American Muslim Political Coordinating Committee (AMPCC); U.S. Department of State’s “International Visitors Program”; one of a few Muslim leaders invited by President George W. Bush to the White House shortly after 9/11 ^[e]
• Ahmed Bedier [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mahdi Bray [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Esposito [r]: University Professor, Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Professor of Islamic Studies and Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University; editor-in-chief of the four-volume The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam and The Islamic World: Past and Present; called an "apologist" for radical Islam by the Investigative Project on Terrorism ^[e]
• Maher Hathout [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ibrahim Hooper [r]: Spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations ^[e]
• Rafeeq Jaber [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ingrid Mattson [r]: President of the Islamic Society of North America in 2006; director of Islamic Chaplaincy and a professor at the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticu ^[e]
• Abdul Alim Musa [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tariq Ramadan [r]: Swiss philosopher, Islamic scholar, and theorist on Islamist reform; Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University; denied entry to the U.S. by the George W. Bush Administration but admitted by the Obama Administration ^[e]
• Muzammil Siddiqi [r]: President of the Islamic Society of Orange County (ISOC); Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) president (1997-2000) and continuing board member ^[e]

U.S. officials challenged

• Loretta Sanchez [r]: U.S. Representative (D-California), Vice Chair of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee and Chair of the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism, U.S. House Armed Services Committee and Oversight and Investigations, Strategic Forces, and Military Personnel Subcommittees, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology; against 2002 Iraq War resolution; Member, New Democrat Coalition; Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Vietnam, Blue Dog Coalition, and the Congressional Human Rights Caucus; sister of Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-California) ^[e]
• Adam Schiff [r]: U.S. Representative (D-California); New Democrat Coalition; House Judiciary Committee ^[e]
• Mike Honda [r]: Congressional Progressive Caucus; U.S. Representative (D-California); vice chair, Democratic National Committee; opposed 2002 Iraq War resolution; Congressional Caucus on Bosnia; Chair, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus; Congressional Native American Caucus ^[e]
• Lois Capps [r]: Registered nurse and U.S. Representative (D-California); House Committee on Energy and Commerce: Vice Chair of its Health Subcommittee and Subcommittee on Energy and Environment; Committee on Natural Resources: and Subcommitee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands; Member, New Democrat Coalition; participant, 2009 White House Forum on Health Reform; voted against 2002 Iraq War resolution & member of Out of Iraq Caucus; 0% "true liberal" 2008 rating from American Conservative Union ^[e]
• Mary Jo Kilroy [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Ohio), House Financial Services Committee: Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, Housing and Community Opportunity and Oversight and Investigations subcommittees; House Committee on Homeland Security ^[e]
• Dennis Kucinich [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Ohio), U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor; U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Vice Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus ^[e]
• Jim Moran [r]: U.S. Representative(D-Virginia); Member, New Democrat Coalition; Congressional Progressive Caucus; 0% "true liberal" 2008 rating from American Conservative Union ^[e]

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Endorsers

• Peter Hoekstra [r]: U.S. Representative, (R-Michigan), U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor; Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ^[e]
• Brad Sherman [r]: Certified Public Accountant and attorney; U.S. Representative (D-California), House Financial Services Committee; House Committee on Foreign Affairs; House Judiciary Committee ^[e]
• Sue Myrick [r]: U.S. Representative (R-North Carolina), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Republican Study Committee; Tea Party Caucus; Congressional Caucus on Bosnia; founding co-chair, Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus ^[e]
• Richard Clarke [r]: Career U.S. defense official who served in policy posts in the Ronald Reagan,George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations, specializing in counterterrorism in the latter two ^[e]
• Douglas Farah [r]: Journalist and researcher on terrorism and the drug trade, who wrote for UPI and the Washington Post before focusing on research and consultancy ^[e]
• Bill O'Reilly [r]: U.S. political opinion broadcaster, author, radio host and political commentator. Host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. ^[e]
• Chris Matthews [r]: An American liberal television commentator, previously a general television and print journalist, and an aide to Democratic elected officials ^[e]
• Oliver "Buck" Revell [r]: Add brief definition or description