Word: shukri
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...agents have been eavesdropping and gathering other intelligence on the group since at least 1993. The Treasury Department knew that Mousa Abu Marzook, a top Hamas official now in Syria, had contributed $210,000 to the foundation. At a California conference in 1994, Holy Land president Shukri Abu Baker was reportedly identified as a senior official of Hamas. According to an FBI memo, documents seized overseas showed that money moved from the Richardson office to Hamas-controlled committees in the Palestinian territories...
...experts in terrorism, such incidents are suggestive. In Egypt in the 1960s, the Islamic ideology Takfir wal Hijra began to win adherents among extremist groups. One of them, the Society of Muslims, was led by Shukri Mustafa, an agricultural engineer. Mustafa denounced other Muslims as unbelievers and preached a "withdrawal" into a purity of the kind practiced by the Prophet Muhammad when he withdrew from Mecca to Medina. The ideology is particularly dangerous because it provides a religious justification for slaughtering not just unbelievers but also those who think of themselves as Muslim. Intensely undemocratic--for to accept the authority...
...experts in terrorism, such incidents are suggestive. In Egypt in the 1960s, the Islamic ideology Takfir wal Hijra began to win adherents among extremist groups. One of them, the Society of Muslims, was led by Shukri Mustafa, an agricultural engineer. Mustafa denounced other Muslims as unbelievers and preached a "withdrawal" into a purity of the kind practiced by the Prophet Muhammad when he withdrew from Mecca to Medina. The ideology is particularly dangerous because it provides a religious justification for slaughtering not just unbelievers but also those who think of themselves as Muslim. Intensely undemocratic-for to accept the authority...