Word: jihadism
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...DIED. KENNETH BIGLEY, 62, British engineer kidnapped on Sept. 16 in Baghdad by members of an Islamic militant group, Tawhid and Jihad, and beheaded following an apparent escape attempt; in Iraq. Earlier videos showing Bigley in a cage of chicken wire, pleading for the British government to comply with his captors' demands, sparked weeks of debate over Prime Minister Tony Blair's handling of the crisis and the Iraq war in general. Following news of Bigley's death, his family issued a statement saying they believed the government had done everything possible to secure his release...
...allies are waging against Islam; the suffering of Muslims worldwide; the sacred duty to struggle against those who would deny Muslims the chance to worship in peace. The preacher's voice?he requested anonymity?rises as he issues a final, passionate appeal, a call for jihad against a cruel government that, he says, is oppressing the faithful. "Will you join hands with me to fight? Fight the army that tortures and kills our people? The army that has caused the disappearance of many Muslims?" The crowd cries out in assent, the younger men standing together, holding hands and shouting "Allahuakbar...
...Thai soldiers. The government once blamed the unrest on assorted criminal gangs. But in the face of mounting casualties, it acknowledged by midyear that the south was in the grip of an Islamic insurgency. What's only emerging now, however, is that the militants are fired by the global jihad against nonbelievers and egged on by radical clerics preaching death to infidels. "This is a domestic problem with the fashion of [an Islamic] brotherhood," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told TIME in an interview last week. "Some religious teachers are recruiting students to stage violence. This has gained momentum since 9/11...
...Violence is not a new phenomenon in the three southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat. In the 1970s and '80s, the region was buffeted by bouts of unrest, but those then taking up arms had independence as their goal?not jihad. By the 1990s the handful of guerrilla bands fighting for a separate state had been largely marginalized by the central government's conciliatory approach. Bangkok pumped development funds into the south, started governing through local leaders, including Muslims, and pardoned a host of insurgents. Relative calm returned, until this year. Now, say experts, what used...
...Israeli officials indicated Friday that they suspect Qaeda involvement. If the attacks were, in fact, authored by Egyptian Qaeda operatives, they'd mark a bloody return home for some of the world's most hardened Islamist terrorists. Peace between Egypt and Israel was the issue over which Egyptian Islamic Jihad announced itself to the world, through the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat. A combination of harsh repression and a conscious decision to "export" the problem by shipping off radical Islamists by the planeload to Afghanistan to wage jihad against the Soviets blunted much of Islamic Jihad's impact inside...