Al-Jazeera – A new perspective? Since its birth as an independent TV station and new agency in 1996‚ Al-Jazeera has been viewed as a controversial‚ influential free-speaking news agency. A news agency uninfluenced by corporations‚ governments and so on. But why is Al-Jazeera so controversial? And is it really that different from BBC‚ CNN and other news agencies? Al-Jazeera was launched November 1st 1996‚ in Doha‚ Qatar‚ which still contains the headquarters. Its birth followed the closing of
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Islamic Economics Term Paper Al-Hisbah in Islamic Economics Table of Contents: What is the Al-Hisbah Institution? Al-Hisbah objectives Who are Rijal-al-Hisbah? Qualifications of a Hisbah Official How Al-Hisbah differs than Anti-corruption Procedures of Al-Hisbah References I- What is the Al-Hisbah Institution? The Hisbah is a religious institution under the authority of the state that appoints people to carry out the responsibility of enjoining what is right‚ whenever
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Al Jazeera – Case Analysis History and Current Growth Al Jazeera was set up in the mid 1990’s by Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. During this time the BBC was attempting to set up an independent News cannel in the Middle East‚ basing them selves in Saudi Arabia. They were unable to do this due to the Saudi government not allowing the BBC full editorial freedom. This resulted in them abandoning their plans. The Emir of Qatar saw the opportunity to set up the first independent news channel in
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When one turns on the news‚ the last thing they hear is Al Qaeda. All you hear‚ in this day and age‚ is how strong ISIS and all the threats they are involved with. That‚ however‚ doesn’t mean Al Qaeda is non-existent. In other words‚ it’s been since September 11th 2001 since Al Qaeda has left it’s marks in America‚ but countries like Africa have felt the brunt of what the terrorist group has to offer. On Friday‚ November 20th 2015‚ Al Qaeda stormed into a hotel in Mali and killed 20 people‚ one
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Feared by many‚ followed by most. Who would’ve thought someone coming from a religious household would soon make the world sense the wrath of Al Capone‚ the criminal mastermind. The man who showed no remorse towards anyone that interfered with his principles. The one who took a different perception on life and eventually composed his own set of rules. Certainly in doing so would lead others and their lives. The most notoriously known gangster‚ Alphonse Capone was the first from his family to be born
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Al-Qaeda The Base"‚ "The Foundation" or "The Fundament". Is a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden‚ Abdullah Azzam and several other militants at some point between August 1988 and late 1989‚ with origins traceable to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational‚ stateless army and an Islamist‚ extremist‚ wahhabi‚ jihadist group. It has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations Security Council‚ the North
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Al Qaeda Terrorist Group Paul Leclair University of Phoenix CJA/300 William Barnes December 8‚ 2005 Abstract Al Qaeda is arguably the most well-known and most dangerous Islamic terrorist organization in the world. It was established around 1990 by a Saudi millionaire‚ Osama Bin Laden‚ to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion. The goal of the organization is to reestablish the Muslim state throughout the world. Al Qaeda works with allied Islamic
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from Al-Qaeda’s 2001 attacks‚ falls short of its intent to defeat transnational terrorism. While the tenets of the current counterterrorism strategy were written broadly to enable global employment‚ this template approach proved ineffective. While focusing its efforts on dismantling terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and Iraq‚ America neglected parts in Southeast Asia that provided sanctuary to Islamic terrorists. Such sanctuaries facilitated the regrouping‚ recruiting‚ and training of Al-Qaeda
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Stability in the Arabian Peninsula region has been a concern for the United States for some time now. AQAP poses a direct threat against the U.S. and U.S. interests of Stability and Security in the Arabian Peninsula. This instability and threat is why I have chosen the AQAP as the FTO to research making the next attack. The AQAP comes from the merging of the al Qaeda cells from Yemen and in Saudi Arabia. There are approximately one –two hundred members‚ with thousands
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real sinners”? Both the Islamic terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and the North American based Christian terrorist group the Army of God obviously sympathize with that statement. Each organization has set personal vendettas against the United States and the policies the US has established regarding their stray from the conservative‚ traditional practices within each of their faith traditions. Through that warring‚ essentially extremist ideology‚ Al-Qaeda and the Army of God have set themselves apart from
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