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Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki (Arabic: أنور العولقي, romanized: Anwar al-'Awlaqī; April 21 or 22, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American-Yemeni lecturer, and jihadist who was killed in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki became the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and ...
Anwar al-Awlaki is a Muslim scholar of Yemeni heritage born in New Mexico. He served as an Imam in California, and later in the Washington, D.C. area where he headed the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center and was also the Muslim Chaplain at George Washington University.
Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki sheds light upon the Quran, hadeeth and the seerah (particularly the first 13 years in Makkah) and presents lessons to the daiee in order to strengthen his or her methods of conveying the message of Islam to the West.
May 7, 2024 · Anwar al-Awlaki was an American Islamic preacher and al-Qaeda terrorist killed by a controversial U.S. drone attack. One of the United States’ most-wanted terrorists, Awlaki was directly linked to multiple terrorism plots in the United States and United Kingdom, including an attempt in December.
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Al-Awlaki speaks fluent English and in the last few years al-Qaeda relied on him to provide the ideological framework for new recruits to join its global jihad, which he did primarily through his internet blog and lectures. Through a series of email exchanges, U.S. investigators said, al-Awlaki allegedly counselled a U.S. army psychiatrist named Ni...
There are two narratives that surround al-Awlaki’s rise through the ranks of global jihad. His own version is that he was obliged, according to the tenets of his faith, to join al-Qaeda after the U.S. attacked the Muslim nations of Iraq and Afghanistan and intervened in Pakistan and Yemen. But investigators working with the Sept. 11 commission sugg...
What the Pentagon didn't know when it promoted al-Awlaki as a moderate imam in the weeks after 9/11, inviting him for lunch as part of an outreach program to American Muslims, was that he was the "spiritual adviser" to three of the Sept. 11 hijackers with whom he had many "closed-door meetings." 9/11 investigators believe hijackers Hani Hanjour, Kh...
Al-Awlaki’s ability to speak the Arabic language and to quote the Qur'an and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, coupled with his charismatic style of delivery, made him a darling in his own community and a much sought after speaker at Islamic conferences in North America and Europe. In the late 1990s, his lectures on DVDs, CDs and cassettes were ...
Apr 21, 2021 · Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (radiallah anhu), His Life and Times, by Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki. This series of lectures covers the different aspects of the life of Abu Bakr, including his life before Islam, during the life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, and finally during his Khilafah.
Aug 27, 2015 · It has been years since Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in an American drone strike, but online, his influence is as strong and pervasive as ever. Did killing Awlaki strengthen his message?
