Word: jihadism
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...man’s land reminiscent of Somalia, would be between Israel and Iran. Where the proceeds of the sale of Iraq’s oil—currently at $109 a barrel—would go can only be imagined, but funding regional and international jihad is a plausible guess. All of this composes a universally terrible outcome, particularly for the Iraqi people. The suggestion that withdrawing troops would bring peace is thus a dangerous fiction. Worse still is the suggestion that it would save lives or increase American legitimacy in the region. Withdrawal simply subjects Iraq to America?...
...Where is the party that opposed Clinton’s interventions in Kosovo and ran explicitly against nation-building in 2000? The neoconservative jihad in Iraq has managed to conflate conservatism itself with perpetual warfare: A solid 65% of Republicans still support the management...
...authorities less than a week ago, "made plans last November to kidnap foreign journalists, tourists, as well as Olympic athletes during the Games to cause an international sensation and disrupt the Beijing Olympics." This group, said Wu, had also been looking for members who were willing to carry out "jihad" in the capital city of Xinjiang Province, Urumqi, and in Chinese cities in the interior...
What Makes Terrorists Tick? I read about forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman's new book, Leaderless Jihad, with great interest [March 31]. I think Sageman fails to answer this basic question: If suicide bombers act out of a sense of social injustice rather than psychopathology, why do they so often target noncombatants, including children? What could be more unjust than the killing of the innocent? An alternative explanation is that we are dealing with a different kind of psychopath, a paranoid who sees himself as the victim and all Jews and Westerners as the demonic enemy and persecutor. David Levinsky, BANDON...
...shocked Christian conservatives and delighted fans from Edinburgh to Lahore, was launched on iTunes. E-audiences might miss the comedian's crown of thorns and Gitmo-orange jumpsuit, but that's not dire, as the show, he says, is "all ideas." He also has a new show, Eco-Friendly Jihad, premiering this month in Galway, Ireland, about an environmentalist who becomes so frustrated with the West's inability to cut carbon emissions that she joins al-Qaeda...