Word: jihadism
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Theologians make a distinction between natural evils (earthquakes, cancers) and man-made evils (murder, the Holocaust). When you heard the news of Flight 800, did you think mechanical failure? Or jihad? Whatever brought down the 747, its 230 passengers were just as dead, and just as far beyond caring...
TIME: When Clinton said at the March 13 "Summit of the Peacemakers" convened at Sharm el-Sheikh that the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups and Lebanese Hizballah were "enemies of peace," did you regard it as a declaration...
...Also in December, Egyptian security officials uncovered a conspiracy by the extremist group Islamic Jihad to assassinate President Hosni Mubarak. Based on interrogations, which may have included torture, Egyptian authorities are now investigating an informant's tip that bin Laden helped fund the plot...
...Relying on confessions by suspected terrorists, Egyptian security officials also allege that bin Laden is the major financier of a camp in Afghanistan called Kunar that provides training for recruits of Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Group, both Egyptian terrorist organizations...
...packing himself and several of his family's bulldozers off to central Asia. He was inspired, he said, by the plight of Muslims in a medieval society besieged by a 20th century superpower. "In our religion, there is a special place in the hereafter for those who participate in jihad," he told TIME. "One day in Afghanistan was like 1,000 days of praying in an ordinary mosque...