Tuesday, March 1, 2011

MUSLIM WORLD - The galaxy of Islamic movements

■ Hezbollah (Party of God) Lebanon - founded in 1982 Lebanese Shi'ite organization founded as a resistance movement against the Israeli invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon (1982-2000). Over the years, Hezbollah, led by Hassan Nasrallah, became an inescapable political party on the Lebanese scene.

With the aim of defending the social aspirations of the underprivileged, the Party of God has openly supported the Islamic Republic of Iran. After the Israeli withdrawal, it keeps its weapons, saying the conflict with Israel continues. While possessing ministerial portfolios in the Lebanese government, he maintains, politically and militarily, an autonomous structure.

■ hello Islamic Front (FIS), Algeria - founded in 1989 Founded by Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj, the FIS is campaigning for the creation of an Islamic state and enjoys strong popular support. In the first round of parliamentary elections on December 26, 1991, he received 47.3% of the votes cast.

After the suspension of the electoral process in January 1992 he was banned and its leaders arrested. The Islamic Army of hello (AIS), its armed wing, committing the attacks. In 1999, Parliament adopted the law of "national reconciliation". Four years later, Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj were released.

Their activities are highly supervised. Belhadj has tried to participate in the demonstration on February 12, but was quickly arrested by security services. ■ ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey - founded in 2001 Heir to the Refah (Welfare Party, banned in 1998) and Virtue Party (Virtue Party, banned in 2001), the formation led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan , current prime minister, Abdullah Gul, the current president, is anxious to invest more in the center of the political spectrum in Turkey is defined as a party "conservative democrat".

The AKP has been in power since November 2002. ■ Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) Palestine - founded in 1987 The movement recognizes its affiliation with the Association of Muslim Brotherhood and enjoys financial support from Saudi Arabia. It has benefited in its early stages of relative leniency on the part of Israeli intelligence.

But during the 1990s, its rapprochement with Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Iranian regime has changed the situation. In January 2006, he won the legislative elections. The incidents with the militants of Fatah, the main component of the PLO, are multiplying. On June 14, 2007, he took control of the Gaza Strip.

■ Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Pakistan - founded in 1941 Very well structured, the Jamaat-i-Islami recruits primarily among the middle classes and promotes the establishment of an Islamic state governed by Sharia law. During his student Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba, it plays an important role in Pakistani politics, particularly since 1979.

Recently, the JI was a key member of the coalition of Islamist parties Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), which supported Musharraf. JI has branches in India and Bangladesh. ■ Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind (JUH) India - Founded in 1919 Association of Scholars founded to fight against British imperialism, she teamed up with the non-peaceful cooperation promoted by Gandhi, as opposed to the creation Pakistan.

After independence, the JUH is dedicated to the defense of cultural identity and religious identity of Indian Muslims. For their part, the ulema for a separate state for Muslims cause a split in 1945 and created the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI), now one of the main Islamist parties in Pakistan, particularly in the Province bordering Afghanistan.

■ Front Defence of Islam (FPI) Indonesia - founded in 1998 created three months after the fall of dictator Suharto by a group of clerics and Islamists calling for Islamic law to rule the country, the FPI has also a paramilitary wing, the Lashkar Islam pembele (Troops defense of Islam), feared for their raids in bars and other places "of perdition".

With approximately 50 000 active members, the REIT is now trying to infiltrate the political elite and appears to enjoy impunity alarming. February 6, after the attack on the house of a spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya sect, its leaders have ordered police to ban the movement, they consider heretical.

"Otherwise we will launch a jihad to overthrow the Indonesian president."

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