Word: jihadism
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...hunt down corrupt Fatah officials. Nor does it help that in 1996, as Arafat tried to wipe out opposition to him, dozens of Islamic militants were jailed, tortured and murdered by his supporters. "Fatah guys were worse than the Israelis," recalled a member of a third militant group, Islamic Jihad. "The Israelis would stop beating us to let us pray. Fatah never stopped...
...aiming to bring Israeli wrath on Hamas, hence hastening the downfall of Haniya's government. So far, Israel has been careful to distinguish who is shooting before it fires back. Since the election, no Hamas targets have been attacked, but last week an Israeli missile killed two Islamic Jihad militants riding in an ice cream truck in Gaza, along with three bystanders, including a child and a teenager. Says Col. Yohanan Tzoreff, a senior researcher at the Institute for Counter Terrorism near Tel Aviv, "If Fatah continues its terrorist attacks against us, we know that it isn't trying...
...carried out by lawyers and relatives. According to Israeli sources in the prison administration, the jailed Hamas chiefs have told Haniya they want revenge for the purges that senior Fatah officials carried out in 1996. Both Palestinian and Israeli sources say that Hamas leaders are trying to persuade Islamic Jihad to halt terrorist attacks against Israel, at least for the time being. To an extent, this seems to have worked; Islamic Jihad has limited its recent actions against Israel to a few rocket attacks. But Palestinian sources say that Islamic Jihad is wary of joining Hamas in government, uncertain...
...FREE SPEECH OR HATE SPEECH?In the spring of 2002, Zayed M. Yasin ’02, former president of the Harvard Islamic Society, planned to give a speech at Commencement titled, “Of Faith and Citizenship: My American Jihad.” “The speech was about unity between American and Muslim values,” Yasin says.However, Yasin’s proposed address was met with criticism from a group of students who were concerned that the word “Jihad” would be too offensive to students and family...
...Pakistani security establishment, which cultivated it during the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980s (later helping the Taliban to seize power) and used it also to wage a proxy war against India in the disputed territory of Kashmir. Two decades after the onset of the Afghan jihad, radical Islamists are an established feature of Pakistani society, and increasingly difficult for the authorities to contain...