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Parent topics
- Insurgency [r]: A wide range of political and military actions intended to change a government, through means considered illegal by that government. [e]
- Shi'a [r]: A Muslim who believes that the line of religious authority derives from the Household of the Prophet Muhammad (Ahl ul-bayt), through the line of his son-in-law, Imam Ali [e]
- Sunni [r]: The main branch of Islam, which treats authority as following in the line of the first four "righteously guided" caliphs, as opposed to the Shi'ite dynastic line from the son-in-law of the Prophet [e]
- Takfir [r]: A Muslim, primarily Salafist practice of excommunication or shunning of non-observant Muslims; it may extend to killing them [e]
- Wahhabism [r]: A socially conservative branch of Sunni Islam, strongest in the House of Saud, which rules Saudi Arabia [e]
- Deobandism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sufism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Shirk [r]: An Arabic word literally meaning polytheism, but interpreted by some Salafist clerics, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, to include allegiance to any government, even ostensibly Islamist, which does not follow strict Sharia law. [e]
- Wilayat al-faqih [r]: A controversial concept in Shi'a Islam, "authority of the jurisprudent", developed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as the basis for clerical rule in Iran; by no means universally accepted by Iraqi and other Shi'a [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]
- Madrassa [r]: A Muslim religious school, some, but not all of which, have indoctrinated in extremism [e]
- Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq [r]: A major Shi'a political faction in Iraq [e]
- Moqtada al-Sadr [r]: Iraqi Shi'a with religious credentials but far more of a political activist; headed a resistance force against U.S. forces, then forming a National Assembly (Iraq) bloc and becoming part of the government of Nouri al-Maliki; heads the Mahdi Army militia [e]
- Justin Raimondo [r]: Editorial Director and Columnist, AntiWar.com; Adjunct Scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Senior Fellow at the Center for Libertarian Studies, writer for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture [e]
