Jamaat al Muslimeen
Islamist group in Trinidad and Tobago / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Jammat-al-Muslimeen (Arabic: جماعة المسلمين, romanized: al-Jamā‘at al-Muslimīn, also transliterated as Jamaat-ul Muslimeen or Jama'at al-Muslimeen, "School of Muslims", "Group of Muslims", "The Muslim Group", "The Muslim Assembly", "The Muslim Society", "The Muslim Community") is a radical extremist Islamist fundamentalist group in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Jamaat al Muslimeen | |
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جماعة المسلمين | |
Country | Trinidad and Tobago |
Ideology | Islamic extremism Salafism |
Notable attacks |
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Allies | Libya Sudan |
Opponents | Government of Trinidad and Tobago |
The organisation is responsible for the Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt of July 1990, in which its leader, Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, led members of the Jamaat in an attempted coup d'état against the unpopular Government of Trinidad and Tobago. Over a six-day period, members of the government, including then-Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson, were held hostage at gunpoint, while the group occupied a television station and parliament, and chaos and looting broke out in the streets of the capital, Port of Spain.[1]