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Ali al-Tamimi, the Glossary

Ali Al-Tamimi (also Ali Al-Timimi; born December 14, 1963) is an American computational biologist and Islamic teacher from Fairfax County, Virginia, who was convicted of soliciting treason and attempting to contribute services to the Taliban based on comments he is alleged to have made to a group of followers at a private dinner shortly after 9/11.^[1]

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American Salafis
American imams
Anwar al-Awlaki

Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq

Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq (عبد الرحمن عبد الخالق) (5 November 1939 – 29 September 2020) was an Egyptian-Kuwaiti Islamic scholar and preacher. Ali al-Tamimi and Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq are Islamic University of Madinah alumni.

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Abdul-Aziz Ibn Baz

Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah ibn Baz (translit; 21 November 1912 – 13 May 1999), popularly known as Bin Baz or Ibn Baz, was a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar who served as the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia from 1993 until his death in 1999 (1420AH).

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ADX Florence

The United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (USP Florence ADMAX), commonly known as ADX Florence or the Florence Supermax, is an American federal prison in Fremont County to the south of Florence, Colorado, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

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Al Madina (newspaper)

Al Madina (lit) is a newspaper published in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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Andrew Card

Andrew Hill Card Jr. (born May 10, 1947) is an American politician and academic administrator who was White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006, as well as head of Bush's White House Iraq Group.

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Anwar al-Awlaki

Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki (translit; April 21 or 22, 1971September 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. Ali al-Tamimi and Anwar al-Awlaki are American imams.

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AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.

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Appellate procedure in the United States

United States appellate procedure involves the rules and regulations for filing appeals in state courts and federal courts.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Assistant professor

Assistant professor is an academic rank just below the rank of an associate professor used in universities or colleges, mainly in the United States, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

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Atharism

Atharism (translit) is a school of theology in Sunni Islam which developed from circles of the, a group that rejected rationalistic theology in favor of strict textualism in interpretation the Quran and the hadith.

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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.

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Banu Tamim

Banū Tamīm (بَنُو تَمِيم) is an Arab tribe that originated in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Bilal Philips

Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips (born Dennis Bradley Philips; July 17, 1947) is a Jamaican-born Canadian Islamic teacher, speaker, author, founder and chancellor of the International Open University, who lives in Qatar. Ali al-Tamimi and Bilal Philips are Islamic University of Madinah alumni.

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Buffalo Six

The Lackawanna Six (also known as the Lackawanna Cell, or Buffalo Cell) is a group of six Yemeni-American friends who pled guilty to charges of providing material support to al-Qaeda in December 2003, based on their having attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan together in the Spring of 2001 (before 9/11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan).

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Catherine Herridge

Catherine Herridge is an American journalist who was a senior investigative correspondent for CBS News in Washington D.C. from 2019 to 2024.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Computational biology

Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships.

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Conditional release

Conditional release is a method of release from detention that is contingent upon obeying conditions under threat of return to detention under reduced due process protections.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Criminal conspiracy

In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime at some time in the future.

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Cultural attaché

A cultural attaché is a diplomat with varying responsibilities, depending on the sending state of the attaché.

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Dar Al-Hijrah

Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center (مركز دار الهجرة الاسلامي) is a mosque in Northern Virginia. Ali al-Tamimi and Dar Al-Hijrah are Anwar al-Awlaki.

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Din (Arabic)

Dīn (Dīn, also anglicized as Deen) is an Arabic word with three general senses: judgment, custom, and religion.

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Disposition Matrix

The Disposition Matrix, informally known as a kill list, is a database of information for tracking, capturing, rendering, or killing suspected enemies of the United States.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Fairfax County, Virginia

Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Falls Church, Virginia

Falls Church is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.

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Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for all Federal prisons and provide for the care, custody, and control of federal prisoners.

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Fiqh

Fiqh (فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence.

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Freedom of religion in the United States

In the United States, freedom of religion is a constitutionally protected right provided in the religion clauses of the First Amendment.

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Freedom of speech in the United States

In the United States, freedom of speech and expression is strongly protected from government restrictions by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, many state constitutions, and state and federal laws.

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George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker BushAfter the 1990s, he became more commonly known as George H. W. Bush, "Bush Senior," "Bush 41," and even "Bush the Elder" to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd U.S. president from 2001 to 2009; previously, he was usually referred to simply as George Bush.

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George Mason University

George Mason University (GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The university is named in honor of George Mason, a Founding Father of the United States.

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George Washington University

The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress and is the first university founded under Washington D.C.'s jurisdiction.

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Georgetown Day School

Georgetown Day School (GDS) is an independent coeducational PK-12 school located in Washington, D.C. The school educates 1,075 elementary, middle, and high school students in northwestern Washington, D.C. Russell Shaw is the current Head of School.

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Harold J. Morowitz

Harold Joseph Morowitz (December 4, 1927 – March 22, 2016) was an American biophysicist who studied the application of thermodynamics to living systems.

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House arrest

In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or, in modern times, electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to their residence.

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Intellectual disability

Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States),Rosa's Law, Pub.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islamic University of Madinah

The Islamic University of Madinah (الجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة المنورة) is a public Islamic university in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

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Islamism

Islamism (also often called political Islam) refers to a broad set of religious and political ideological movements.

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Johnson v. United States (2015)

Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled the Residual Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act was unconstitutionally vague and in violation of due process.

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Jonathan Turley

Jonathan Turley is an American attorney, legal scholar, writer, commentator, and legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism.

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Judgement Day in Islam

In Islam, "the promise and threat" of Judgement Day (Day of Resurrection or Day of Judgement), is when "all bodies will be resurrected" from the dead, and "all people" are "called to account" for their deeds and their faith during their life on Earth.

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Kingdom of Iraq

The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (translit) was a state located in the Middle East from 1932 to 1958.

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Lashkar-e-Taiba

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT; لشکرِ طیبہ; literally Army of the Good, translated as Army of the Righteous, or Army of the Pure and alternatively spelled as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-i-Taiba, Lashkar-i-Tayyeba) is a terrorist group formed in Pakistan, and a militant and Islamist Salafi jihadist organisation.

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Leonie Brinkema

Leonie Helen Milhomme Brinkema (born June 26, 1944) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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Mandatory sentencing

Mandatory sentencing requires that offenders serve a predefined term of imprisonment for certain crimes, commonly serious or violent offenses.

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Medina

Medina, officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah, is the capital of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.

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Michael Sells

Michael Anthony Sells (born May 8, 1949) is John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.

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Milton Viorst

Milton Viorst (February 18, 1930 – December 9, 2022) was an American journalist who wrote and reported on the Middle East, writing in a series of publications, most notably The New Yorker.

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Mount Vernon Seminary and College

The Mount Vernon Seminary and College was a private women's college in Washington, D.C. It was purchased by George Washington University in 1999, and became the Mount Vernon Campus of The George Washington University.

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Muhammad Surur

Muhammad Surur bin Nayif Zayn al-'Abidin (محمد سرور بن نايف زين العابدين; 1938 – 11 November 2016) was a former member of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

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Mujahideen

Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community (ummah).

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007)

NSA warrantless surveillance — also commonly referred to as "warrantless-wiretapping" or "-wiretaps" — was the surveillance of persons within the United States, including U.S. citizens, during the collection of notionally foreign intelligence by the National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

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Pre-medical

Pre-medical (often referred to as pre-med) is an educational track that undergraduate students mostly in the United States pursue prior to becoming medical students.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Remand (court procedure)

Remand is when higher courts send cases back to lower courts for further action.

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Riyadh

Riyadh (ar-Riyāḍ) is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia.

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Safar al-Hawali

Safar bin Abd al-Rahman al-Hawali al-Ghamdi (سفر بن عبدالرحمن الحوالي الغامدي.) (born 1950) is a scholar who lives in Mecca. Ali al-Tamimi and Safar al-Hawali are Islamic University of Madinah alumni.

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Salaf

Salaf (سلف, "ancestors" or "predecessors"), also often referred to with the honorific expression of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ (السلف الصالح, "the pious predecessors"), are often taken to be the first three generations of Muslims.

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Salafi jihadism

Salafi jihadism, also known as revolutionary Salafism or jihadist Salafism, is a religious-political Sunni Islamist ideology that seeks to establish a global caliphate, characterized by the advocacy of "physical" (military) jihadist attacks on non-Muslim targets.

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Salafi movement

The Salafi movement or Salafism is a revival movement within Sunni Islam, which was formed as a socio-religious movement during the late 19th century and has remained influential in the Islamic world for over a century.

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Sayyid Qutb

Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb (9 October 190629 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Solicitation

Solicitation is the act of offering, or attempting to purchase, goods and/or services.

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Special administrative measure

A special administrative measure (SAM) is a process under United States law (see also USAM — Requests for Special Confinement Conditions) whereby the United States Attorney General may direct the United States Bureau of Prisons to use "special administrative measures" regarding housing of and correspondence and visitors to specific inmates.

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St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square

St.

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Sunnah

In Islam,, also spelled (سنة), is the traditions and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad that constitute a model for Muslims to follow.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Supermax prison

A super-maximum security (supermax) or administrative maximum (ADX) prison is a "control-unit" prison, or a unit within prisons, which represents the most secure level of custody in the prison systems of certain countries.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Palisades (Washington, D.C.)

The Palisades, or simply Palisades, is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., along the Potomac River, running roughly from the edge of the Georgetown University campus (at Foxhall Road) to the D.C.-Maryland boundary (near Dalecarlia Treatment Plant).

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Thesis

A thesis (theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.

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Treason

Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.

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Umar Lee

Umar Lee (Born Brett Darren Lee; September 18, 1974 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer, media personality, and political activist. Ali al-Tamimi and Umar Lee are American Salafis.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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United States Department of State list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) is a designation for non-United States-based organizations deemed by the United States secretary of state, in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (INA), to be involved in what US authorities define as terrorist activities.

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References

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See also

American Salafis

American imams

Anwar al-Awlaki

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