Final exam Review Flashcards
What organization was founded in 1928 to recapture the religious purity of the period of Mohammad and the four Rightly Guided caliphs
Muslim Brotherhood
______________ see themselves as the only in “true” Muslims, and they have assumed the authority to denounce fellow Muslims “heretics” if they disagree with the theology
Salafis
In the 1980s and 1990s, American right wing extremist Louis Beam championed a concept called ______________________
Leaderless resistance
Al Qaeda’s origins can be traced to _____________
The Cold War
What is the Islamic Group that governed Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001?
Taliban
Who was the leader of the Taliban?
Mullah Omar
The _______________ is the Pakistani domestic and foreign intelligence service, created by the British in 1948.
Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI)
What was the name of the defensive phase of the international coalition created by President George H.W. Bush after Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990?
Desert Shield
What is the name of the organization created by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri that represents a variety of Jihadist groups?
World Islamic Front Against Jew and Crusaders
Central leadership of Al Qaeda currently operates in the tribal areas of ______________
Pakistan
The AQAP Is a splinter group of what terrorist organization?
Al Qaeda in Yemen (AQY)
What family in the tribal area of Afghanistan has relations with several militant groups and the ISI?
Haqqani network
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi sent ____________ to Syria with instructions to create an ISI front in Syria.
Abu Mohammed al Jawlani
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi entered the Syrian war in 2010 and changed ISI to what?
ISIS
Scholarly research has shown that _________________ is important for recruitment to ISIS.
Recruitment on social media
According to Christopher Hewitt, what is the most effective method of preventing terrorism!
Community policing
Vigilante terrorism, insurgent terrorism, and transnational (foreigners fighting on American soil) are typologies of ________________ terrorism
Domestic
The ________________ developed a general classification system of domestic terrorism in the 1980s.
FBI
According to FBI classification, domestic terrorism involves violent political extremism _________ and lone wolf activities
Single issue terrorism
What is the term used to describe white supremacist who either selectively use Bible passages or personal scriptural interpretations to justify the patriot agenda?
Free-wheeling fundamentalism
What is a religion that incorporates the ancient Norse gods in a hierarchy under the Christian triune deity called?
Nordic Christianity
Who was the founder of the creativity movement?
Ben Klassen
What is the belief that the lost tribes of Israel settled in Western Europe called?
Anglo-Isrealism
The Ku Klux Klan was created in the wake of what war?
Civil war
What are young individuals or groups that embrace racist hatred and white supremacy called?
Skinheads
_________________ is a violent right wing racist group of the 1980s that killed Jewish radio talkshow host Alan Berg.
The Order
_______________ was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan
Nathan Bedford Forrest
What were the first terrorist of the Ku Klux Klan known as?
Knight Riders