Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani

Abdul Majeed al-Zindani ; Arabic:

عبد المجيد الزنداني‎ ʿ Abdul Majeed ; born in 1942 in Ibb, Yemen) has been described by Daniel Golden of the Wall Street Journal as "a charismatic Yemeni academic and politician." and by CNN as "a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard". A leading militant Islamist, he is the founder and head of the Iman University in Yemen, head of the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood political movement and founder of the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah, based in Saudi Arabia.

In 2004 the US Treasury Department published a press release stating that the United States had by executive order designated Zindani as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist".


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