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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 |
| | Fighting intensifies between Serbs and Croats, Christians and Muslims, for territory within Bosnia-Herzegovina | |
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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 |
| | Bosnian Serbs massacre thousands of Bosnian Muslims after laying siege to the town of Srebrenica | |
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| 1995 |
| | Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam organizes a Million Man March into Washington | |
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