Word: jihadism
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...neighbors. It was rare to see people in public carrying guns. Women don't wear veils when they do their daily chores outside their homes or visit neighbors. There were only a handful of seminaries. And it was difficult to find anti-American graffiti or the slogans of Jihad on houses and buildings along its narrow roads that zigzag into the hills...
...nation's soul. Musharraf has weathered the protests of the pro-democracy movement, but his survival, political and otherwise, is still at stake in the face of growing violence in Pakistan's tribal areas and an increased number of suicide car bombings from a cadre that has declared jihad on the government. The three A's that shaped Pakistan's destiny - the army, Allah, and America - now need to converge to tackle al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and then give Pakistan full democracy so it's no longer just another basket-case Muslim nation. R.R. Sami, Tiruvannamalai, India...
Possibly. Radical clerics have declared jihad on the government in retaliation for the mosque siege. Suicide attacks are gathering pace in the North-West Frontier Province, the gateway to Afghanistan. A July 18 bombing there killed 17 Pakistani soldiers. And even religious groups once aligned with the government are turning against Musharraf. Machine-gun fire directed at the President's plane on July 6 marked the first assassination attempt on Musharraf's life in several years...
...chanted "Down With Musharraf." Clerics at several radical mosques are denouncing what they see as law enforcement agencies attacking fellow Muslims. The banned militant group Tehrik Nifaz-Shariat-e-Mohammadi has used FM radio stations in a district north of Peshawar to instruct its followers to carry out jihad against the government, as has a radical cleric in the northern district of Swat...
...last name of this "Al" person the Frenchman cited as being central to the global plot of which Ressam's planned attack on Los Angeles International Airport had been part. Bruguiere patiently explained that "al Qaeda" was an organization seeking a global federation of furtive extremists to wage jihad on the West. Less than seven months later, as the lessons of 9/11 became clear, Bruguiere ceased having to tutor his American colleagues on the dangers posed by Osama bin Laden and his minions...