Word: jihadism
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Call it the anti-Guantánamo. Young Saudis are captured in Iraq waging jihad against the American infidels. But instead of being shipped off to a bleak detention camp in Cuba, they are dispatched to a cozy chalet an hour outside the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Technically it's a detention center, but no one is forced to wear an orange jumpsuit or a blindfold. And far from being condemned to solitary confinement, its occupants are free to roam the landscaped courtyard and play Ping-Pong, volleyball and video games...
...could be Baghdad; it is Riyadh. The Kingdom shifts the current jihad one country south, from Iraq to Saudi Arabia. The movie also rouges the image of Americans in Islamic countries. Instead of being trapped in a four-year (and counting) quagmire, they come into town, clean things up and get out. What many thought would be the 2003 reality of a U.S. fighting force in Iraq has become a film fantasy...
...According to most interpretations of Islamic law, jihad is only justified against an invader that supplants a lawfully chosen leader - the Soviets in Afghanistan, for example. Even according to Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the radical Red Mosque leader who was killed during the siege, jihad did not apply to the situation in Pakistan because Musharraf, hated as much as he might have been, was at least a legitimate President. "But," he warned, "the minute Musharraf's army spills the blood of the Pakistani people just to keep him in power, he is no longer legitimated. Then jihad will be allowed...
...militants leading an insurgency in the mountainous tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan. They may care little for the intricate political maneuverings of courts and lawyers far away in the capital, but if martial law were to be established, it wouldn't just be war against Musharraf, but jihad against the entire government. And if the Pakistani state found itself at war with a significant section of its own people, its effectiveness as an ally in the war on terror would...
...aides, are planning mass protests. They are likely to be joined by a wide swath of Pakistani society, from Islamist parties to liberal lawyers and professors. Al-Qaeda and other extremist militants in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, meanwhile, are capitalizing on popular discontent to reinvigorate their jihad against Musharraf's regime: terrorist attacks, once confined to tribal areas in the north, have spread across the country. Some of Musharraf's political allies and fellow military officers are backing away, and his enemies sense his vulnerability. "This is the death spasm of the general's rule," says Supreme Court lawyer...