Word: jihadism
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Your story "Generation Jihad" [Oct. 3] indicated that many moderate Muslims living in Western countries feel that the West deserves to be attacked because it is waging an "assault on Islam." And in return, Westerners find many Muslim practices abhorrent and oppressive. One has to ask whether our cultures have any common ground. A reminder of the fact that God belongs to all religions might help bring people together and help heal the rift that sadly is getting larger...
...wide audience throughout the region, as well as among Arab exiles in Europe and the U.S. But these qualities have also earned Al Hayat many enemies in a part of the world with virtually no tradition of--or appreciation for--objective journalism. Under the editorship of Jihad al Khazen, the paper, based in London, has undertaken hard-hitting stories about the civil war in Algeria, corruption in Jordan, internecine butchery in Iraq and the sort of radical Islamic extremism in Egypt that produced Salameh and other followers of Sheik Rahman...
...else, too. According to one fsb officer, "amazingly, they were all locals," many from the city itself. Though the attackers included a sprinkling of Chechen and Ingush fighters, security officials say most were from an Islamic guerrilla group called Yarmuk that only recently surfaced. The cell first called for jihad in August 2004, and gained some local prominence with small attacks later that year. After last week's violence ended, officials variously described the attack as an attempt to seize arms or even capture the city. The guerrilla teams were big enough to terrorize, but not to hold their targets...
...portrayal in your story "Generation Jihad" of Muslim youth in Europe and other parts of the Western world made me uneasy [Oct. 3]. You described young Muslims as frustrated by lack of opportunities in Europe and motivated by the idea that the West is waging an assault on Islam. As a Pakistani student studying in the U.S., I would like to point out that the vast majority of Muslim youth in the West are working against ideas of jihadist violence and hatred...
...food, helped bury the dead and shoveled through the debris to find the living. "They saved us when nobody came from the government," says a survivor, Ali Geelani, 28. "Musharraf has given us the earthquake; they have given us life. And if they ask me, I will go for jihad with them." Others weren't given a choice. A teenager known only as Bobby was pulled from the ruins by Lashkar-e-Taiba volunteers. When they discovered that his family had died, he was taken to the group's headquarters in Lahore. "He's an orphan now," explains a militant...