Word: jihadism
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There was a time when Washington could call up Islamabad and order a jihad on the Red Army occupying Afghanistan - and Islamabad would salute. Islamabad was our loyal ally in the Cold War. Granted, no one in Washington was happy when Pakistan started developing a nuclear bomb in the '70s. Or when it finally tested one in May 1998. But still, we slept nights knowing that Pakistan's pro-American, Western-trained generals, our generals, had their fingers on the trigger...
...meantime, hostile debate of the Madrid bombings - who was involved; who blamed whom for what; should investigations carry on or not - continues to be the favorite sport of Spanish politicians. On Tuesday, the Congress of Deputies debated whether the opposition Popular Party had mounted a "media jihad" in its efforts to prove that ETA was indeed involved in the attacks. The uncertainty surrounding Osman's sentence will just give them one more thing to argue about...
...Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, speaking from under house arrest, questioned Musharraf's motives. "If he wants to stamp out terrorism in Pakistan, why is he arresting civil society leaders and lawyers instead of militants and religious fanatics? Why didn't he arrest Fazlullah when he first started preaching jihad? Today he has arrested hundreds of lawyers, but not a single militant, Taliban, al-Qaeda or religious fanatic. It doesn't make any sense. If you want to take the country away from the extremists, you don't do it by arresting the moderates...
They want Musharraf dead. Osama bin Laden declared jihad against the leader in a video this September...
...sweeping generalizations, over-dramatizations, and mis-interpretations of Islam. From the suggested film clips (entitled “The Islamic Mein Kampf,” and “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West”) to the link to a “Jihad Watch” Web page, the public face of TAP is one of cultural stereotyping. “Jihad is not, as some Western apologists claim, simply a striving for individual perfection,” the site reads: “The long term goal of jihad is world domination...