Word: jihadism
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...destination was Khartoum, where the leaders of the Arab world were gathering at one more summit in one more attempt to forge a united front against Israel. And once more, all hopes for unity were shot down even before the meetings began. Fearing that the old cries for jihad (holy war) were about to be toned down, Algeria's leftist President, Houari Boumediene, decided the meeting was not worth bothering about...
...driven into the sea, did everything in his power to prevent Arab terrorists from using Jordan as a base. His refusal to cooperate won him scorn and vilification from Nasser and the left. But when the Arab armies began mobilizing on Israel's borders and the cry of jihad filled the air, Hussein figured that if war came he would have to join it or be toppled from his throne by Arab mobs...
...troops, and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, ordering 20,000 of his men into Jordan, proclaimed that "any Arab who falters in this battle is not worthy of the name Arab." Arab preachers in countless mosques throughout the Middle East reminded Friday worshipers that anyone killed in a jihad (holy war) goes immediately to heaven to Allah's side...
...seizing the holy city of Xauen. In the subsequent fighting, Krim was captured and his father killed. Escaping from the Spanish prison in Melilla, Krim broke his leg and ever after walked with a pronounced limp. Gaining the safety of the mountains, he rallied the Riffs for a jihad against Spain and in 1921 won an extraordinary victory at Anoual, capturing a Spanish general and 20,000 soldiers-most of whom were butchered on the spot. In the next four years, Krim repeatedly whipped the Spaniards and nearly drove them into the sea. When Krim declared the independence...
...bustling Ibo East dominate Nigeria's commerce and furnish most of the country's bureaucrats. But the real weight of the nation rests on the top of the Y. Here, in the Northern Region, live close to 20 million people, mostly Moslems, who still remember the jihad (holy war), in which, 156 years ago, the Fulani horsemen of Imam Othman dan Fodio overwhelmed the original Hausa inhabitants. Though it is still an essentially feudal society in which Hausa-speaking masses are ruled by stern Fulani emirs, the North today, by sheer weight of numbers, controls Nigeria...