Al-Qaida

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This paper looks at Al-Qaida, a multi-national Muslim-centered support group that is led by Osama bin Ladin and how it successfully solicits funds to finance terrorist activities worldwide. This paper examines its ideology, which is to cleanse the Muslim world of the corrupt and secular leadership that has allowed western thinking and culture to exist among the Muslim people. It also analyzes how acts of terrorism are used on everyone who may seem a threat to Al-Qaida's mission.

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"Osama Bin Ladin has identified what he sees as the prime enemies of Muslim culture. The countries he wishes most to destroy are the United States and Israel. He resents the United States for interfering in numerous fields in the Muslim world politically and militarily. He resents Israel for occupying Palestine and finds the countries of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Algeria to be unacceptably westernized (Margulies 18). As justification for his vengeance, Bin Ladin cites the Muslim Holy Scripture, the Koran, which calls for Jihad, or Holy War, against the enemies of the Muslim religion."

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