Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan was previously known as Anjuman Sipah-e-Sahaba. Sipah Sahaba represent a long history of Islam Sunni Islam. Sipah-e-Sahaba in their preachings and actions are remarkably like Khariji, a movement in early Islam, funded by the dynasty of Umayyads and their founder Muawiyah. Sipah-e-Sahaba are funded heavily through the donations of Arabs andother sects of Islam. Many beheadings and other acts of violence have earned this group bad name. Sipah-e-Sahaba are widely believed to be a formal part of Al-Qaeda's global network.
On October 10, 2005, Great Britain's Home Office banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and fourteen other 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 terrorist groups were:
- 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)