Nagata volunteered and was selected for the Intelligence Support Activity in 1990, nicknamed "The Activity", an ultra-secret unit conducting signal and human intelligence gathering for special mission units of Joint Special Operations…
Some former Baathist officials even stopped drinking and took to prayer. The insurgency was called mukawama, or resistance, with overtones of religious legitimacy; its fighters became mujahideen (holy warriors) and proclaimed their mission…
Abstract Modern extremist groups have revived the use of certain concepts of Islamic dogma and wilfully misinterpreted them as a means of achieving their own ends. Dae‘sh (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is the most striking example.
Jihad (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ h ɑː d/; Arabic: جِهَادٌ, romanized: jihād [dʒiˈhaːd]) is an Arabic word which literally means "striving" or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim. [2 ] [1 ] [3 ] [4 ] In an Islamic context, it can refer to holy…
The ideology and actions of certain militant groups in the Middle East are often condemned as a perversion of Islamic precepts. In order to achieve a theologically ideal society, these groups espouse takfirism, a minority ideology that…
Bridging various disciplines, from physical characterization, synthetic chemistry and device engineering, I am now focusing on harvesting sun light through Mie resonating photoelectrochemically active metasurfaces fabricated through sol-gel…
Hiroko Nagataová (nepřechýleně Nagata, japonsky 永田 洋子, Nagata Hiroko; 8. února 1945 Tokio – 5. února 2011 Tokio) [1 ], někdy mylně označována jako Jóko Nagataová, byla japonská levicová radikálka, která byla usvědčena z vraždy a…