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Fathi al-Shiqaqi
founder of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad
- In Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Formation and ideology
…founders of the PIJ—most notably Fathi al-Shiqaqi—previously had been involved with the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization founded in Egypt, where Shiqaqi and other Palestinians had sought higher education. Shiqaqi and his associates were sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist outlook, but they believed that the revival of an Islamic…
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