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| 1987 |
| | | Hamas (acronym in Arabic for 'Movement for Islamic Resistance') is founded in the occupied territories to lead armed resistance against Israel | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini declares a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his Satanic Verses | |
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| c. 1988 |
| | | Osama bin Laden's involvement in the fight against Soviet forces in Afghanistan leads to his development of al-Qaeda | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A new party, the Islamic Salvation Front, seems certain to win the Algerian election – until the army intervenes | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Algeria is plunged into a brutal civil war between a military junta and Muslim terrorists | |
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| 1992 |
| | | The mujaheddin, after removing from power the Soviet-backed president Najibullah, proclaim an Islamic state | |
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| c. 1994 |
| | | Mullah Mohammed Omar, in Kandahar, forms a group devoted to fundamentalist Islam and calls it Taliban (meaning students of the Qur'an) | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam organizes a Million Man March into Washington | |
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| 1997 |
| | | Thousands of Shia Muslims are massacred by the Taliban in Mazar-e-Sharif, in a brief spell before they are driven from the city | |
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| 1999 |
| | | An amnesty is declared for some 8000 Muslim terrorists held in Algeria's gaols | |
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