Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
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Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan was previously known as Anjuman Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASS); this dubious acronym made them change their name. Sipah Sahaba represent a long history of extremism in Sunni and Wahabi Islam. Sipah-e-Sahaba in their preachings and actions are remarkably like Khariji. Sipah-e-Sahaba are funded heavily through the seikhdoms of Arabs and target sects of Islam like the Shiites or Brailvis. Many beheadings and other acts of violence have earned this designated terrorist group extreme notoriety. Sipah-e-Sahaba are widely believed to be a formal part of Al-Qaeda's global network. They have killed many people.
On October 10, 2005, Great Britain's Home Office banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and fourteen other militant groups from operating in the United Kingdom. Under Britains' Terrorism Act 2000, being a member of a Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan is punished by a 10-year prison term.
The fourteen banned groups were:
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- Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
- Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain (Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group)
- Ansar al-Islam
- Al Ittihad Al Islamia
- Islamic Jihad Union
- Ansar al-Sunna
- Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin
- Harakat ul-Mujahidin/Alami
- Jundallah
- Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
- Lashkar-e Jhangvi
- Khuddam u-Islam
- Jamaat ul Furquan
- Harakat ul Jihad ul Islami
- Harakat ul Islami (Bangladesh)
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Sipah-e-Sahaba is an anti Shia organization. In Pakistan it is responsible for a number of targeted killings of Shia religious leaders and intellectuals. Its main financiers and mentors are Saudi Arabian wahabis. Wahabis consider themselves as puritan, whereas the other sects of Islam consider the Wahabis responsible for various schisms in Islam.
