Word: jihadism
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...Sudanese boatman, turned religious seer, involved the British Empire in a sticky little war. Mohamed Ahmed, who had declared himself the Mahdi, the long-awaited messiah of Islamic tradition, had whipped his dervish followers into a frenzied jihad (holy war) against the Sudan's Egyptian rulers. Since Egypt was under British occupation, Britain sent solemn, Bible-reading General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon* to restore order. Instead, the fanatical dervishes bottled up the undermanned British garrison in Khartoum, hacked Gordon to death with their swords...
...first nonverbal reaction was "civil disobedience." Arab workers in Palestine walked out in a twelve-hour general strike. Diehard pan-Arabs called for a jihad, or holy war, to wrest back Palestine from the infidel. In Jerusalem, the Arab temper flared most angrily. A mob surged from the Mosque of Omar, shouted "Death to the Americans and British!" and stoned a column of Tommies. They fell back before British batons and a sudden heavy rainstorm. Tanks rumbled up to the Damascus Gate. The 100,000 British troops in the Holy Land were alerted...
...Tommies who might find his program drab. Author Priestley offers an unexpected inducement-a jihad against bluenoses: "I should like to see the English, once they had done their share of the community's work, doing what they damned well pleased; and refusing once and for all to be bullied by highly organised little gangs of teetotallers, Sabbatarians, and all the unloved and the life-haters. The chief freedom the English people need now is the freedom to have more fun. without regard to the feelings of sour-faced old women and envious...
Then the Italian Protestant Ministers Association of Greater New York jumped into the jihad, issued a statement: "Here in America, Church and State have complete separation. Candidates to public office are elected . . . not on the basis of their religious beliefs but on their ability to serve in that office. It is in this spirit that the American Government is sending to Italy men who are capable of handling its affairs regardless of their religious affiliations." The Association's 75 ministers dubbed the Knights' demand "most inopportune and brimful of that intolerance so often demonstrated by various agencies acting...
...M.G.M.) is an all-out Hollywood jihad to save Fay Bainter's soul for the New Deal. Cinemactress Bainter impersonates the widow of an anti-New Deal Washington newspaper publisher. She has vague resemblances to the Washington Times-Herald's Cissie Patterson, an overstuffed mansion, an illusory heart ailment, a raffish son (Richard Ney), a musical-comedy daughter (Jean Rogers) and. though the epithet is never directly hurled, there is more than a hint that the Widow Bainter is a Republican. The war against her is waged with practically everything but brass knuckles and a commando raid...