Word: jihadism
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...Bill O'Reilly hosted the president of the college Republicans and the editor of the Blue and White on Friday's show, tearing into Columbia's students and faculty, which he said are engaged in "a left-wing jihad." Also see a transcript of O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo," in which he calls Columbia the "University of Havana, North." Not quite the "Kremlin on the Charles," but blistering nonetheless. The segments are a fascinating look at conservative critiques of the Ivy League...
...Furthermore, it is questionable if the UN has the right to impose troops against a nation’s will. Better, say critics, to offer a new package of incentives to Sudan. Moreover, critics worry that planting a foreign force in a predominantly Muslim nation like Sudan risks sparking jihad. Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, released a video last Friday urging Muslims to defend Sudan from “crusaders masked as United Nations [troops].” In light of such alarming sentiments, it is unsurprising that all internal efforts have failed...
...nurtured the Taliban in the early '90s, and then actively helped it fight its way to power in Kabul. Not only was there a natural affinity between the ethnic Pashtun movement and Pakistan's own Pashtun communities in the westernmost provinces that had helped support the Afghan anti-Soviet jihad, but Pakistan saw the Taliban as a protector of its own regional interests, particularly in light of Indian support for its rivals in the Northern Alliance...
...first meeting in Assisi. It could also set off a new round of anti-Western violence by angry Muslims. Or both. Such is the world that this shy, academic-minded pastor was presented with 17 months ago when he became Pope. The buzzwords today are 9/11, clash of civilizations, jihad--and old formulas must now be replaced by hard, new thinking, even at the risk of offending sensibilities...
...much as a mechanism, suggested by a Christian cleric, to enable the abductors to save face in giving up their hostages. Now admittedly, they did go for it. But combined with the seemingly unanimous subsequent condemnation of the act by Muslims, it hardly seemed like the latest tool of Jihad. Bernard Haykel, an associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, notes that although Islamic law allows for the forced conversion of ?unbelievers,? it explicitly forbids its use upon Christians and Jews. He says contemporary stories of such conversion are ?extremely rare,? and that the Evangelical...