Word: jihadism
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...fighters from Haniyeh?s own militant wing of Hamas and from Islamic Jihad broke the cease-fire, claiming that Israel had not pulled all of its forces out of Gaza before the deadline - a claim denied by the Israelis - and because Israel had arrested a senior Hamas commander in the West Bank...
...Pastor Ted: “There is part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life,” he wrote in a letter to his congregation. Now, subtract the self-loathing and jihad rhetoric, and what are you left with? A man who has been fighting with himself for all of his adult life. Not the effeminate, tradition-flaunting liberal who has decided to be countercultural, but a deeply pious man who has tried his very hardest to suppress his desires because...
...pretty deep bench of low-ranking personnel capable of stepping up to assume leadership positions," General Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, told the Senate Armed Services Committee, on November 15. "Though a number of these people are new to the senior management, they're not new to jihad...
...including suicide bombers and the mass killing of civilians, to bring about the world's submission to Islam. In an Oct. 12 "Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI," 38 distinguished Islamic religious authorities, including Grand Muftis in Turkey, Egypt, Russia, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia and Uzbekistan, wrote that "jihad ... means struggle, and specifically struggle in the way of God. This struggle may take many forms, including the use of force." The signers delicately criticized some acts of Muslim terrorism, such as the killing of a nun in Somalia, but failed to address the relationship between religion and politics...
Fifteen years ago last week, Anglican envoy TERRY WAITE was released from captivity after being held for 1,763 days by the Islamic Jihad. An adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Waite had been kidnapped in January 1987 when he went to Beirut to negotiate the release of Western hostages. Today Waite no longer works for the Anglican Church. In fact, he no longer even attends services. Fed up with attempts to modernize Anglican worship that he says have "left little time for contemplation and quietness," he began going to Quaker services last month. Waite now devotes his time...