Word: jihadism
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...mediating the conflict, with Powell pushing for engagement and Dick Cheney arguing for a freer rein for Sharon. That division, presided over by an inexperienced President, resulted in paralysis. Once Bush declared a global war on terror, Arafat's failure to curb terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad made the hard-line position unimpeachable. But partly at the prodding of nervous Arab allies, the U.S. has begun to look for ways to nudge the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Last week the State Department latched onto a tentative offer made by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince...
...Finsbury Park epitomizes the British attitude. It is the sort of place where you can buy stomach-turning videos (lots of throat slitting) made by Islamic extremist groups. The sermons of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the mosque's one-eyed, steel-clawed imam, continually stress the importance of jihad. Baker says the mosque is dominated by adherents of Takfir wal Hijra, the neo-fascist Islamic ideology influential among European operatives of al-Qaeda. However extreme its message, Finsbury Park is undeniably popular. At midday prayers on a recent Friday, Abu Hamza preached to a congregation of about...
...jihad was Reid's chosen path. He took the name Abdel Rahim and on his trips back to Brixton harangued listeners. "We warned him where the extremist ideas he was adopting had led people," says Baker. "But he found our beliefs too passive, too slow." Reid told his parents he was going overseas. Robin says his son sent him a letter from Iran, but if Reid visited there at all, it was probably on his way to a madrasah, an Islamic school, in Pakistan. In 1999 and 2000, Reid appears to have spent much of his time in Pakistan...
...call al-Arian's views pro-Muslim is slightly wrongheaded. One who rants "Death to Israel" and attracts notorious leaders of Islamic Jihad is not pro-Muslim but a militant hatemonger. We want our teachers to be positive role models for our children. Diabolic creeps like al-Arian do not belong in U.S. institutions of higher learning or any educational institution at all. PAUL HARDY Tacoma, Wash...
...MILF has formally rejected Osama bin Laden's post-9/11 call for a worldwide jihad, and leaders deny training foreign militants or being part of any terror network. But the group isn't a monolith; radical elements appear to be ignoring the party line. "We believe that the MILF leadership means well but they cannot control their troops on the ground," said Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Lieut. Colonel Jose Cristino Mabanta. The U.S. is in the opposite position: its troops in the southern Philippines do follow orders. They might just have been ordered to fight the wrong...