Studies on the Development and Practice of the Islamic Jihad Theories after the mid-1990s

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Since the formation of the "World Islamic Front" for the Jihad against Jews and Crusaders in February 1998, the Jihad of the so-called "Radical Islamic Fundamentalists" entered upon a new phase. The radicals, who had recognized their own Muslim governments as the prime enemies and had been fighting against them militarily, came under the leadership of Osama bin-Laden, who had rejected the military campaign against the Muslim governments, and came to give priority to the anti-Israeli and anti-American military campaigns together with al-Qaeda.The main purpose of this research project is to make cross-regional analysis on the above-mentioned change, which led to the 9.11 attack to the World Trade Center, and the actual state of the jihad organizations which are apt to attack the foreign targets. Therefore we made researches on the theories and practice of the Jihadist movements, focusing on one region each year, and moved from Central Eurasia, Middle East, South-East Asia, lastly to South Asia. For some important cases, we kept our observation at fixed points as well.From our fieldworks and analysis of various documents, we came to the following conclusion :(1)The harsh oppression on the "Radical Islamic fundamentalists" caused them to give up their military campaign in their homelands,(2)They perceive the American and Israeli attacks on and killings of their "fellow" Muslims are to the extent that they cannot ignore, especially in Palestine and Iraq.It should be pointed out as our additional finding that "Islamophobia," global expression of hatred, discrimination and oppression against Islam and Muslims, is more strongly felt and discussed among Muslims since "9.11." In that circumstance, obviously, more Muslims respond to Osama bin-Laden's invitation to Jihad and join the Jihadist groups, as they think that is the last resort to overcome "Islamophobia".