Word: jihadism
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When talk of independence began to spread, he entered politics, but with the purpose of fighting against self-rule for Nigeria, not for it. He insisted that the north, lacking educated leaders, was not ready, and even threatened a jihad (holy war) against the more advanced Ibo and Yoruba tribesmen of the south if the British walked out and left Nigerians to rule themselves. But a visit to the U.S. in 1955 as Nigeria's Minister of Works convinced him that widely differing nationalities could live together in peace. "Until then, I assure you that I did not believe...
Nasser's Voice of the Arabs raged that Kassem was an apostate whose followers had torn up the Koran outside his office door shouting: "Death to Arab nationalism, death to Islam!" Nasser, who hitherto has hesitated to make a jihad, or holy war, against his Arab enemies, now invoked this highly charged cry against the Kassem regime and its atheist Communist comrades. (Use of such dangerous religious passions for political purposes may be effective against the Reds, but it also upsets Lebanese Christians and other non-Islamic Arabs...
...Berber tribes of the interior were no readier to accept French authority than that of the Dey. Rallying behind AbdelKader, the handsome, 25-year-old son of a holy man, they launched a jihad (holy war) to expel the infidel. French General Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, a veteran of Napoleon's Spanish campaign, where the word guerrilla was invented, responded with a tactic called the razzia -a swift, merciless strike at a native village, sparing nothing and nobody. In one razzia, in 1845, nearly 500 Algerian men, women and children were asphyxiated by fires lit at the mouth...
...with their faded Churchillian echoes, Egypt's strongman prepared his people for guerrilla war-and did not add what his words implied: that his army and air force had been badly mauled. The same day, the chief priests of Cairo's famed El Azhar Mosque proclaimed a jihad, or holy war, against Britain and France...
...trying hard to divide Moslems." Concluded the Ulema: any peace with Israel that includes recognition of its existence as a state in Palestine "is against faith." Moslems, "whatever their language, race or color should all cooperate to restore this land to its people . . . They should help fighters in the jihad with weapons and various resources...