and political changes that in many cases ended up in
total chaos and war, as it is still nowadays in Syria and Libya and with
important repercussions in Lebanon, Iraq, Tunisia and Egypt.

The
United States gave full support to those branches of political Islam linked to
the Muslim Brotherhood such as the FJP in Egypt, Ennahda in Tunisia, while in
Syria the Islamist group was trying to establish their own militia and gain
influence in the armed struggle against Assad. [1] [2]

According
to Gulf News sources, the US have been maintaining close relationship with the
Muslim Brotherhood, organization that is banned in Russia since 2003 due to its
links to Chechen terrorists in the Caucasus and that has also recently been
banned in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

What kind of relations do the jihadists of northernSinai and Gaza
have with Islamic State, and with Hamas? Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi declared a three-month national emergency this week, following
the killing of over 31 Egyptian soldiers in a suicide car bombing
carried out by jihadists in northern Sinai.
No organization has issued an authoritative claim of responsibility
for the bombing, but it comes amid a state of open insurgency in
northern Sinai, as Egyptian security forces battle a number of jihadist
organizations. Most prominent among these groups are Ansar Bayt
al-Maqdis and Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen; the attack on the Sinai
military base came a few days after an Egyptian court sentenced seven
members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis to death for carrying out previous
attacks on the army.

The current snapshot of the Islamization process in the Balkans is of interesting nature nowadays, by taking into account the