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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Omar Abdel-Rahman has received more than 931,504 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Omar Abdel-Rahman is the 123rd most popular extremist (down from 108th in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 312th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Egyptian Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 123 out of 209Before him are Joseph Bonanno, Dokka Umarov, Baruch Goldstein, Belle Gunness, Mohamed Atta, and Aslan Usoyan. After him are Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, Joseph Valachi, Albert Anastasia, Josef Blösche, Luis Garavito, and Sam Giancana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 155Before him are Goh Kun, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Richard Beymer, Giant Baba, Sjaak Swart, and Bernadette Lafont. After him are Vakhtang Kikabidze, Patrick Bauchau, Benjamin Mkapa, Paul Martin, Larisa Shepitko, and Vasyl Stus. Among people deceased in 2017, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 129Before him are John Hillerman, Don Rickles, Violet Brown, Pierre Henry, Manuel Marín, and Naim Süleymanoğlu. After him are Jiro Taniguchi, Todor Veselinović, Ludmila Belousova, Daliah Lavi, Tom Petty, and John Wetton.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 310 out of 582Before him are Boutros Ghali (1846), Hassan Fathy (1900), Carpocrates (100), Mohamed Atta (1968), Alexander II Zabinas (-190), and Al-Mansur Ali (1242). After him are Nepherites I (-490), Anastasius Sinaita (630), Thutmose (-1500), Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria (1952), Leila Mourad (1918), and Osorkon III (-900).

Among EXTREMISTS In Egypt

Among extremists born in Egypt, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 3Before him are Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951) and Mohamed Atta (1968). After him are Abu Ayyub al-Masri (1968).