Just to point out for the record, Tamil Tigers are a secular group and not based on Islam or any religion. From what I've read, they have members of a number of faiths, the most predominant being Buddhism, but the ideology not based on buddhism or any other. Just on their own cretan immorality that they cooked up themselves. Al Qaeda has basically copycatted every single tamil tiger tactic and all of the Islamic terrorist groups have all imitated their tactics ("suicide bomb"-belts, children soldiers, hiding in women and children, etc). They were rumored by some to have actual ties to al qaeda, but they deny that, and some security experts insist they do not have ties to them. Either way, al qaeda definitely stole all its techniques and must have studied them. Tamil Tigers are despicable human filth, but not Muslim.