Word: jihadism
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Before the Supreme Court, the Government belatedly conceded that Ali was sincere and religiously motivated after all; but because Muslims admit that they would fight in a jihad, or holy war, the Government argued that Ali was not opposed to all wars and therefore was not entitled to c.o. status. The court refused to consider the holy-war argument, thereby failing to set a precedent for other Black Muslims. Instead, it ruled that the appeal board's decision had been hopelessly contaminated by the Government's earlier, admittedly erroneous attack on Ali's sincerity and religion...
Crusades in Conflict. For both sides, the costly contest was almost a jihad, or holy war. To Leonard Woodcock, the quiet, scholarly leader who took over as president of the U.A.W. last May after Walter Reuther died in an airplane crash, the strike was a call to arms for a younger generation of workers who know nothing of the union battles of the '30s. In meeting after meeting, he has told the men to dig in for a long, bitter siege, warning that they will have to go without strike pay after the union's $120 million...
...Dune Messiah takes up the story after the end of the jihad-holy war-which has made Paul the emperor and the deity of the known universe. As his empire grew, his psychic powers have grown, until he is forced to rely on them totally. But total prescience is a trap-it removes him from his sources of strength and turns his allies into tools...
Even the faint gaps were closed now. Here was the unborn jihad, he knew. Here was the race consciousness that he had once known as his own terrible purpose... He had thought within him to oppose the jihad, but the jihad would be. His legions would rage out from Arrakis even without him. They needed only the legend he had already become...
...that gutted a wing of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque last August added an unwanted measure of heat and hatred to a conflict that is never far from flash point. Arab leaders, blaming Israeli negligence for the damage to Islam's third most sacred shrine, called for jihad-holy war. Prime Minister Golda Meir's Cabinet met in emergency session amid deep concern that the fire might weaken Israeli rule in the holy city. Last week the man who confessed to setting the mosque ablaze, a 28-year-old Christian named Denis Michael Rohan, was judged insane...