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The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam Bernard Lewis
Publisher: Basic Books

I lectured, wrote articles for Islamists magazines, trained radical militants, I established relationship with Muslim Brotherhood and other underground radical Muslim organizations, such as Hizb-i Islami of Afghanistan and Hizbu ul-Tahrir of Iraq. Has liberally used during the last 10 years – has Of course, some would say that the American policy of assassination – especially using drone strikes on people whose identity isn't even known – is a form of terrorism. Has Islam declared war on America or is it only radical Muslims that we fight? In one of the failed assassination attempt against me my friend, a fellow inmate, was mistaken for me and knifed nearly to death by a hired prison hitman. He is a friend of the Aga Khan, the multimillionaire head of the Ismailis, a Shi'ite sect of Islam that today proclaims its nonviolence but in ages past was the sect that gave rise to the Assassins. Here the strongest The Isma'ilis in general, and the Nizari Isma'ilis or Assassins in particular, were always considered heretical and persecuted by official Islam. Already little loved by the populace of Shahrukh's realms, they were an appealing target, especially since they were connected to a class of increasingly independent intellectuals. Some Islamic sects are That is, the assassin and his like- minded Muslims felt that Ali betrayed Muhammad by not fighting to be his immediate successor and by consenting to be the fourth Caliph. Earlier sects had used murder as a political technique, and there is evidence that Mohammed himself disposed of his enemies by suggesting that they did not deserve to live – and hoping that faithful followers would take the hint. Rick Perry has made a name for himself in the last few weeks by palling around with some radical evangelical Christian figures who are openly hostile to Islam, and have even, in one notable case, called for a ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S. Unquestioning support of the Saudis is indirectly supporting terrorism.) Torture – which the U.S. As the investigation developed (aided by torturers, in accordance with Timur's precedents) authorities began to suspect an Islamic sect known as the Hurufis. The Hashshashin were an Islamic community in The Middle East around the time of The Crusades, who both named and codified the Assassin archetype, though only few know to what extent their image has been Flanderized since then. Even in Europe, many fear the growth of a radical Islamic presence. The Assassins were, in fact, a medieval Islamic sect whose story is only now becoming clearer to scholars and who, through games such as Assassins Creed, have become associated in the Western mind (non-Muslim as well as Muslim) with reason-based enlightenment and a form of agnosticism, a reality in which truth is both transcendental and . Hence, dealing with various sects of Islam effectively, demands correct understanding of what they are, what they aim to do and their methods of spreading their psychosocial disease. Because Saudi Arabia is the seat of the most radical sect of Islam – Wahhabism- the U.S. After Tunisia, Egypt was the next country where the Arab Spring empowered the Islamists, and brought the radical Islamic Muslim Brotherhood party into power. A radical group, the Hurufis engaged in apocalyptic predictions and divinations, and had long been suppressed in Iranian regions. [2] For example, see Bernard Lewis, The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam (New York: Basic Books, 2003).