The Hezbollah is a radical Shi’a Muslim group that fights against Isreal and the idea of Western Imperialism primarily in Lebanon. Founded in 1982 as part of the Iranian government’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Hezbollah was led primarily by religious clerics. The origin of the Hezbollah and its ideas derived from the Iranian Revolution (Washington, 2007). During this revolution, the Muslim government was established to represent the oppressed or lower struggling class. They later aspired to adopt an Iranian doctrine as a solution to Lebanese political malaise. This doctrine emphasized the use of terror to attain political missions. The Hezbollah is often referred to as the “Party of God.” The members of this well-known terrorist group despised the constitutionality of the state of Israel. Hezbollah blamed the United states for the vast majority of the problems taking place within their country. Israel, in the eyes of other countries, was seen as a part of the United States. It was also known most for being a strong foreign power in Lebanon.
Hezbollah Ideology, Smuggling, and Finances
Hezbollah was, and still is, is considered to be a Republic of Islam. They are said to be modeled after Iran, simulating its structure and leadership. According to scholarly articles, the Hezbollah favored the emergence of an Islamic government in Lebanon through means of peaceful democratic leadership. In contrast to the previously listed statement, the United States Department of State disagrees with idea that Hezbollah operates on the principles of democracy (Washington, 2007). The Department of Defense argues that the organization is seeking to create an Iranian-style Islamic republic with the intentions of removing of all non-Islami...
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...ah via Ayman Joumaa, a well-known drug trafficker and money launderer. Before being captured, his operations were said to have earned over two million dollars a month. In April 2013, the United States Department of Treasury took political action on the Hezbollah. They were accused of operating a drug cartel. The United States government officials also ceased two Lebanese financial institutions traced back to the Hezbollah. Officials accused Hezbollah leadership of transferring millions of dollars to the other terror group worldwide. The previously mentioned accusation was later confirmed. Hezbollah officials later agreed to pay the United States 102 million dollars to settle a dispute concerning Hezbollah' multiple laundering schemes. In June 2013, four Lebanese men, affiliated with Hezbollah, men were imprisoned for acting as Hezbollah ambassadors in West Africa.
Recent arrests and the diminished opportunity to forward cocaine to U.S had left them with the necessity to embark in kidnappings, auto thefts, extortion, murders for hire, human smuggling, and other felonies not to mention that local demand for narcotics had increased recently. The Tijuana Cartel operations extents from the U.S Mexico border across Central America through the Pacific Route and receives support of one of most violent criminal organizations: Los
The French had control of Syria and Lebanon. France had a direct rule, meaning that they sent officials and their army to govern their mandates. The Druze revolt caused the French to separate Lebanon into a country of their own. They appointed the government as people of different religious groups, Christian, Shi’a Muslims, and Sunni Muslims. During World War Two (WWII), Syria and Lebanon tried to gain independence. In 1946 Syria and Lebanon were free. During the time of the French Mandates they made many improvements towards the roads, education, agriculture, and health; which laid the groundwork for modern Syria and
Laura Deeb’s An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon seeks to rectify post-9/11 notions of political Islam as anti-modern and incongruous with Western formulations of secular modernity. Specifically, Deeb is writing in opposition to a Weberian characterization of modern secular Western societies as the development of bureaucracies through social rationalization and disenchantment. Within this Weberian framework Deeb asserts that Shia communities are in-part modern because of the development of beuorocratic institutions to govern and regulate religious practice. However, Deeb makes a stronger argument oriented towards dislodging the assumptions "that Islamism is static and monolithic, and that
Tomson Highways play, The Rez Sisters, presents the reader with seven related women living in Wasaychigan Hill, the play shares their perspective and their struggle of finding true identity, often relating back to traumatic experiences. The play is focused around their struggle of abuse, alcoholism, and poor living conditions. The reservation is their home, that is why they find it difficult to abandon it. However they know they have to leave in order to create a better life for themselves. The biggest bingo in the world sparks their interest to leave the reserve and go to Toronto. The car
After its founding in 1979, Iran became a Theocratic Republic. It was originally a monarchy, but after much fighting, the last Shah (king) went into exile and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini established the Islamic Republic (Kagan, 2012a). In a theocratic republic, God is the supreme civil ruler of the nation. The people elect a supreme leader and president to oversee political and some civil laws, but the leaders must look to the Qur’an for spiritual and civil guidance (Theocratic, 2016). The supreme leader has the overall control in all matters to include the military and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a military entity charged with protecting the revolution of 1979 and its achievements (Kagan, 2012). The state’s government is a multi-tier system with some checks and balance systems in place so that one group does not have total power. The first tier is the Islamic consultation assembly, a parliamentary group who creates and passes laws. The second tier is the Guardian Council. Elected by the supreme leader, this group is the approval authority for all of the parliament’s decisions. The Guardian Council also has the power to remove the Supreme Leader if they feel he is not worthy of the title. The Expediency Council is the last tier, which mediates decisions between the previous two entities. The
Over the course of the last century, the Islamic Republic of Iran (formerly known as Persia) has seen colonialism, the end of a dynasty, the installation of a government by a foreign power, and just over three decades ago, the popular uprising and a cleric-led revolution. These events preceded what could be considered the world’s first Islamic state, as politics and fundamentalist religion are inextricably linked in contemporary Iran. Looking at Iran from the mid 1940’s until the present day, one can trace the path that led to the rise of fundamental Islam in Iran in three distinct periods. The first is that which began with the rise of secular nationalism and the decline of Islam. In the second, the secular, western-friendly government eventually gave way to the Islamic revival in the form of a government takeover by hard-line clerics and disillusioned, fundamentalist youth; both motivated and led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Rule of Iran by these fundamentalist clerics then led to the formation of the fundamentalist Islamic theocracy that governs present-day Iran. The current government has some democratic appearances, but all real power is in the hands of the supreme leader, an Ayatollah who is chosen by the Assembly of Experts, a group of clerics chosen by the Guardian Council. With the Iranian Revolution, political Islam was born, with the fundamentalists holding the reins of power in Iran to the present day.
Around 1979, some of the radical Palestinian students that were members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, were upset with the brotherhood because of its lack of action on the Arab Israeli conflict. They felt the brotherhood was too moderate in the fight against Israel.8 An Islamic Fundamentalist named Fathi Shaqaqi, left the brotherhood and with the help of fellow students, started the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. While Shaqaqi had been influenced by the Islamic revolution, believed that the freedom o...
middle of paper ... ... Works Cited Bates, Theunis. “The Sinaloa Cartel is now the world's biggest supplier of illegal narcotics. How did it become so powerful?.”
The scenario presented is the tale of Executive A planning to retire. Leader B and Leader C are in contention to move into the CEO position. When Executive A retires, there will be a change in company performance along with how employees react, as Leader B and Leader C have different leadership styles from Executive A.
...priesthood consisting of men with such titles as Ayatullah, Mullah, and Hojatulislam. (The late Ayatullah Khomeini, who participated in the Iranian Revolution in 1978, achieved the highest rank in the eyes of the worldwide Shi’a community and was considered infallible.) The Shi’a differ with the majority Sunnis on many issues related to leadership, doctrine, practice, and scriptural selection. (By way of contrast, Sunnis have no priesthood or identifiable religious structure.) Competing Shi’a and Sunni political factions have struggled for power all throughout Muslim history. While some Shi’a dynasties were formed, most notably the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt (910–1171), it has pretty much been a Sunni party for most of Muslim history. Today there is only one Shi’a-dominated country, Iran, with significant Shi’a minorities found in Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and India
The US invaded Panama in 1989 and removed leader Manuel Noriega from power. Prior to Noriega’s arrest, the Bush administration had portrayed him as a “linchpin” in the narcotics drug trade. However, after his capture and imprisonment on drug charges,the drug trade went on unaffected. Drug trafficking actually increased through Panama (Fishlow 120).
Addie Rerecich was an eleven and a half year of girl who was just as normal as any other kid her age. She played sports and was very social. All that changed one night when she woke up complaining of some pain in her hip. Her mother thought it was just a simple softball injury, so she gave her some ibuprofen and sent her back to bed. When the pain didn’t subside, she was taken to the hospital. Initially the doctors said she had symptoms of a virus. The next day she could breath well and they said she now had pneumonia. When at the hospital the disease specialist said Addie had “community-aquired” resistant staphylococcus MRSA from picking her scabs. This infection caused damage in her lungs and was so bad she was then put on ECMO, total life
B. Background: The Sinaloa Cartel has become one of the most predominate suppliers of illegal narcotics in the entire world. The United States alone has provided the cartel with a huge amount of business The Human Rights Watch 2013 report of drug cartel income, "Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 and $29 billion annually from U.S.
estimated 7 billion dollars earned in shadow market. This money is used for drugs, gangs, mafia,
This group was created in 1978 and continues to expand its power today. It began as a branch of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. This terrorist group has several goals ranging from creating a Islamic state to continuing the armed struggle against Israeli occupation of Palestine territories. Their acts of terrorism to date have included suicide bomb attacks against Israeli civilians to attacks on suspected Palestinian collaborators.