Word: jihadism
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...country awash in illegal weapons, violence is inevitably part of the picture. And it isn't restricted to the illiterate and the destitute, those most susceptible to the pull of extremism. Even the sons of some wealthy businessmen are growing beards and joining the jihad against India over the disputed territory of Kashmir, often to the dismay of their secular-leaning families. Others sign up for local wars: more than 100 Pakistanis have been killed in sectarian attacks since the beginning of this year. In recent months, minority Shia professionals, especially doctors, have been targeted for assassination. Doctors are among...
...university student, he was recruited for training as a mujahedin fighter in Afghanistan. He lasted two days, then returned home. He won't discuss the experience, other than to say: "Their intentions weren't good." In the past 10 years, six of his college friends trained to fight the jihad in Kashmir; all of them died. "They absolutely wasted their lives," he says. "It's all politics. These groups aren't interested in the system of God." He makes no secret of his contempt for hard-line militants. "Islam is against any sort of extremism," he says. "These groups...
...signs on the road to Larik, the family's ancestral village 250 km north of Karachi, suggest otherwise. Visiting for the first time in eight years, Attiya is struck by the number of jihad slogans scrawled on the roadside walls. They weren't there before, but Kashmiri militant groups now recruit fighters from all over Pakistan, even in the remotest areas. Sind province is known for its mellowness; Sufism, the most tolerant brand of Islam, flourishes in the numerous shrines. So it is jarring to see the invasion of graffiti along Sind's national highway, which cuts through vast fields...
...very rigid and I don't like meeting them." Coming from the same family helps keep Attiya and Aslam from open conflict?but their troubled country lacks such a mediating force. As Pakistan aids the U.S. in the coming weeks, its vocal hard-line minority?already urging a jihad against the U.S. and openly warning of civil war?will surely try to drown out the moderate majority. In doing so, it threatens to upset the delicate balance of the nation, and that of families like Attiya and Aslam...
Like most Americans, I feel like a protective bubble around our mainland has been stripped away. When I read the Washington Post, I don’t see articles on what Hamas or Islamic Jihad are doing far away in Israel, but on what Al Qaeda cells are doing right here in the U.S. I don’t read about nuclear or biological weapon proliferation in Pakistan, Iraq or North Korea but of terrorists trying to buy crop-dusting planes in Florida or get hazardous materials licenses in Detroit...