Midterm 2: Islamic Salvation Front

Question 1

Armed Islamic Group terrorist attack example (where, when, what, goal, why)

Answer 1

What: Hijacking of Air France Flight 8969
Where: Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers Algeria flight to Paris
When: December 1994
Goal: to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower
Why: After the FLN came into power they ran a dictatorship and inflicted terror with minimal freedom

Question 2

What caused the Islamic Salvation Front’s formation

Answer 2

-formed in opposition to the FLN
-began with a movement towards a multiparty parliamentary system
-Islamic Salvation Front ran in the election but FLN canceled elections – led to riots and terrorist attacks

Question 3

Explain how religious terrorist groups view the world differently from the secular

Answer 3

Secular: What is real is the empirical world only - what can be observed with the senses

Religious: The supersensory world is real
*God is the source of invisible values
*Purpose is to get closer to God
*Goal is to turn the invisible visible: turn divine laws into a theocratic state
*Don’t want to get rid of technology but infuse it with a moral framework

Question 4

Two religious terrorist groups

Answer 4

1. Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
2. Islamic Salvation Front (FIS)

Question 5

Who did the GIA target?

Answer 5

Algerian government and foreigners in Algeria