Islamic Salvation Front
1989–1992 Islamist political party in Algeria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Islamic Salvation Front (Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, romanized: al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh; French: Front Islamique du Salut, FIS) was an Islamist political party in Algeria. The party had two major leaders representing its two bases of its support; Abbassi Madani appealed to pious small businessmen[citation needed], and Ali Belhadj appealed to the angry, often unemployed youth of Algeria.
Islamic Salvation Front الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ | |
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French name | Front Islamique du Salut |
Founders | Abbassi Madani Ali Belhadj |
Founded | 18 February 1989 (1989-02-18) |
Registered | 16 September 1989 |
Banned | 4 March 1992 (1992-03-04) |
Ideology | Sunni Islamism Islamic fundamentalism Salafism Jihadism Arab nationalism[1] Qutbism Pan-Islamism Anti-communism Anti-democracy |
Religion | Sunni Islam |
Slogan | "And ye were on the brink of the pit of Fire, and He saved you from it." (Al Imran:103) |
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Officially made legal as a political party in September 1989, less than a year later the FIS received more than half of valid votes cast by Algerians in the 1990 local government elections. When it appeared to be winning a general election in January 1992, a military coup dismantled the party, interning thousands of its officials in the Sahara. It was officially banned two months later.[2] Its armed wing, the Islamic Salvation Army (AIS), fought in the Algerian Civil War against the Algerian government from July 1994 until its dissolution in January 2000.[3]