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The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam Bernard Lewis
Publisher: Basic Books

Rick Perry has made a name for himself in the last few weeks by palling around with some radical evangelical Christian figures who are openly hostile to Islam, and have even, in one notable case, called for a ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S. Early in the second millennium, Hasan-I Sabbah developed a program of carefully targeted political murder that brought security to his Muslim sect, the Order of Assassins, for over a century and a half. The Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Ismailis against the Islamic World, 's-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co., 1955. Here the strongest The Isma'ilis in general, and the Nizari Isma'ilis or Assassins in particular, were always considered heretical and persecuted by official Islam. Even in Europe, many fear the growth of a radical Islamic presence. Their faith was characterized by theological sophistication and a radical egalitarianism that condemned the wealth and luxury enjoyed by the Sunni Abbasid caliphs, who ruled most of the Muslim lands from their capital of Baghdad. Earlier sects had used murder as a political technique, and there is evidence that Mohammed himself disposed of his enemies by suggesting that they did not deserve to live – and hoping that faithful followers would take the hint. Unquestioning support of the Saudis is indirectly supporting terrorism.) Torture – which the U.S. 'Boko Haram' was a dismissive name given by neighbours of the sect in its early years and means “Western Education Is Forbidden” in the Hausa language; alluding to the group's hard-line belief that Western ideas, particularly from British colonialism, have turned Muslims away from the In 2009 the group became more radical - Yusuf ordered the assassination of a critical local Muslim cleric. Its aim is to establish an independent Islamic state under Sharia law. Because Saudi Arabia is the seat of the most radical sect of Islam – Wahhabism- the U.S. He is a friend of the Aga Khan, the multimillionaire head of the Ismailis, a Shi'ite sect of Islam that today proclaims its nonviolence but in ages past was the sect that gave rise to the Assassins. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, New York: Octogon Books, 1980.