Hezbollah History

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Hezbollah or the party of Allah was established during the first Lebanon war in 1982 by Iran and with assistance of Syria, Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim terrorist organization which emerged from Baalbek district of Lebanon Bekaa valley. Hezbollah immediately gain the acceptance of the Shia population in south Lebanon specially Beirut. Hezbollah has been inspired by a group of young Iranian who were member of the Iranian Islamic Revolution; their goal was either expelling or killing of the Israeli who are in Lebanon through excessive reliance on physical violence such as series of crude guerrilla attacks like assassination, kidnapping and suicide bombing. Hezbollah is being supported from different countries such as from Arab nationalist, Syria, Iran and Iran‘s Quds forces since it is one of the most successful anti-Muslim military group which is located in the middle east. Hezbollah is an Islamist movements which has three aspects first it is community-oriented part which representing Shia population in Lebanon, second is a nationalist party which is fighting against Israel occupation of Lebanon and finally it is part of an axis allying of Iran and Syria, which renders a crucial actor in middle east. The ideology of Hezbollah has been shaped by the same radical Islam that is being preached by Ayatollah Khomeini and guiding by the principle of Islam. Sayyad Abbas Musawi was the first leader of Hezbollah, he was born in 1952, who was an influential Lebanese Shia cleric who work as a co-founder and secretary general of Hezbollah. He studies theology in a religious school which is Najaf, Iraq, where he was influence by the view of Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1992 he has been killed by Israel Defense Force. After Musawi died Hassa...

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...nce on use of physical violence as a justifiable act and each have their own justification for their acts. Bray believes that act of violence which he is committing is justifiable in a sense that they want to save their society and reconstruct the Christian society based on true biblical teaching of Jesus Christ. For instance, one of the act of violence committed by Bray is bombing abortion clinics and they justify their act by saying that we are saving our society from brutal killers who kills unborn innocent babies. On the other hand, Hezbollah is trying to build the society based Islamic principle and order but not only based on Islamic principle but based on Shiite values, believes and views because they believe that Shia population is one of the oppressed population and being ignored by Lebanese government in giving their rights and response to their demands.

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