Word: jihadism
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...Commission from the Finsbury Park mosque in north London where he preached. Abu Hamza's lawyer said he would appeal, a process that must begin within 10 days. Blunkett said that evidence presented at any appeal would focus on the way Abu Hamza "encouraged people to take part in jihad." Try, Try Again Democratic Republic Of Congo The government, opposition and rebel factions signed a peace accord in Sun City, South Africa, though the absence of President Joseph Kabila and a top rebel leader cast doubt on whether the deal signals a real end to 41/2 years of conflict. Under...
...Sheik Abdullah Azzam, 48. It was the second attempt on his life. Earlier in 1989 a bomb was planted beneath the pulpit of a mosque where he was supposed to preach and pray, but the bomb did not explode. Azzam, a Palestinian, was the most prominent advocate of a jihad to save the Muslim lands from infidel encroachment. Thanks in part to his writings and diatribes, Islamic fighters from around the world traveled to Afghanistan to defeat the Soviet Union...
...great nationalist Gamal Abdul Nasser, restoring Arab unity and the greater Arab nation to its rightful place in the world. In recent years the standard-bearer of secular Baathism even turned to prayer to exploit Islamic ardor, building gigantic mosques and lacing his speeches with the language of jihad...
...movement, a sober restraint upon the wishful thinking of mushy-minded liberals. But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy. On the domestic side, there is the sugarplum delusion of endless tax cuts and untrammeled government spending. In foreign policy, there is a wildly idealistic pro-democracy jihad. (Iraq will be the first of many dominoes to fall, it is said...
...defense of the city. He also saluted the residents of Basra, the largest city in southern Iraq, as well as Iraqis living in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul. "O heroic mujahedeen, hit your enemy hard!" Saddam said. "O noble Iraqis, with your strength and spirit of jihad, hit him so that he cannot commit more crimes against you, your nation and humanity. Then you will have victory, our martyrs will have the pride of paradise and you will have the pride of glory...