Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya

The Gamaa Islamiyya (Arabic الجماعة الإسلامية al - Jama ʿ a al - Islamiyya, DMG al - ǧamā ʿ a al - Islamiyya, Islamic Association ') is a militant Egyptian Islamist movement, which is considered by the U.S. and the Egyptian government as a terrorist organization; the Council of the European Union, the Organization on their list to combat terrorism.

Your goal is the overthrow of the Egyptian government in favor of an Islamic republic. The Construction and Development Party, which formed a coalition with the Salafist party of light in the Islamic block, is considered the political arm of the organization.

Spiritual Leader is the blind cleric Umar Abd ar - Rahman. He was accused in 1993 of being responsible for the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, but then sentenced to life imprisonment for attacks on the United Nations building and the FBI. The organization has the United States publicly threatened retaliation, Abd ar -Rahman should not be released.

History

The group was formed in the 1970s in the elimination of the Muslim Brotherhood in a student environment, especially in Upper Egypt. Elimination of the group al - Jihad perpetrated the 1981 attack on the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. As a result, more than 300 people have been charged in the process.

On 8 June 1992, the Egyptian writer Faraj Fauda was shot by the Jama ʿ a al - Islamiyya, and on 17 November 1997 committed members of Jama ʿ a al - Islamiyya an attack on foreign tourists in Luxor, in which 62 people died and its effects part led the group to a cease-fire agreement, but the leader Umar Abd al-Rahman refused.

In 2002, the imprisoned leaders began to publish a series of books in which the ideological concepts, in particular for violence, a revision has been undertaken. The Jama ʿ a al - Islamiyya Lawyer, de facto spokesperson and former fellow prisoner Muntasir al- Zayat was involved in an internal and external exchanges and negotiations that led to prison layoffs in 2003 and 2006. Overall, it should have been 16,000 releases over the years, among others, of al - Jihad and Nadschih Ibrahim.

Mid-2006, said Ayman Al -Zawahiri in a video, the Jama ʿ a al - Islamiyya had joined with the officials of Muhammad al- Hukaima, Rifa'i Taha Muhammad and Schauqi Islambuli, the younger brother of Sadat assassin Khalid Islambuli, al - Qaeda. A compound of the Jama ʿ a al - Islamiyya with al -Qaeda, however, was denied by Abd al - Hamad Achir and Nadschih Ibrahim.

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