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Omar Abdel-Rahman

1938 - 2017

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Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (Arabic: عمر عبد الرحمن), (ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Islamist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1995. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Abdel-Rahman was the leader of Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya (also known as "The Islamic Group"), a militant Islamist movement in Egypt that is considered a terrorist organization by the European Union and the Egyptian government. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Omar Abdel-Rahman is the 131st most popular extremist (down from 116th in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from Egypt (down from 315th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Egyptian Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 131 out of 283. Before him are Rafael Caro Quintero, Kōzō Okamoto, Albert Anastasia, Luciano Leggio, Dinko Šakić, and David Berkowitz. After him are Delphine LaLaurie, Wilhelm Boger, Robert Hansen, Charles Sobhraj, Aldrich Ames, and Jalaluddin Haqqani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 169. Before him are Benjamin Mkapa, Jan Assmann, Isabelle Aubret, Hermann Nitsch, Johnny Rebel, and Félix Mourinho. After him are Astrid Kirchherr, David Bailey, Ronny Cox, Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Adolf Scherer, and Diane Baker. Among people deceased in 2017, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 138. Before him are Bruce McCandless II, Kate Millett, Jerry Fodor, Raymond Smullyan, Brian Aldiss, and Félix Mourinho. After him are Igor Shafarevich, Baldwin Lonsdale, Albert Zafy, Robert Miles, Todor Veselinović, and Mark Fisher.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 331 out of 642. Before him are Nefermaat (-2500), Macarius of Alexandria (297), Pope Timothy II of Alexandria (null), Hermias (401), Ahmad al-Tayyeb (1946), and Ahmed Aboul Gheit (1942). After him are Shawar (1100), Soad Hosny (1943), Amr Moussa (1936), Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (1902), Nebettawy (-1250), and Shenoute (348).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Egypt

Among extremists born in Egypt, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 4. Before him are Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), Mohamed Atta (1968), and Saif al-Adel (1960). After him are Abu Ayyub al-Masri (1968).

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