Word: jihadism
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...some of the literature of the scholars, the history of Kabul. My heart became attached to that." John said he had been sent to an Arabic-speaking al-Qaeda camp, where he learned to shoot a Kalashnikov. He saw Osama bin Laden several times. He answered the call to jihad and fought in Kashmir and Kunduz. Then he became a prisoner...
After a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Washington on Sunday, Bush called on Arafat to break up terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad that operate openly in Palestinian-controlled territory. In another sign that it is taking a new look at the situation in Israel, the administration has moved to freeze the assets of a large Muslim charity in Texas that has suspected links to Palestinian terrorist groups...
...string of questions to a group of learned Islamic scholars. "Which is really too bad," says Ross, "because I'd imagine there would be quite a reaction to some of the Taliban's teachings. So it's okay if I commit mass murder and suicide in the name of jihad? Oh, and by the way, I'd like to visit a strip club beforehand...
...despite the dramatic visuals, the strikes were a carefully calibrated symbolic use of Israel's awesome military power rather than a frontal assault on the PA. The Israelis were metaphorically shooting at Arafat's feet to get him dancing. The message: Launch a wholesale crackdown on Hamas and Islamic Jihad, or else. And that's a demand strongly supported by the Bush administration, whose statements since the weekend's terror attacks have conspicuously excluded the traditional caveat calling for Israeli restraint...
...famous "arrogance of power" is cross-grained, and self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness - which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each...