Word: jihadism
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...SPECIAL REPORT THE JIHAD WITHIN: Moderate Muslims are belatedly contesting radicals' claim to the soul of Islam...
...peaceful air, Tenggulun could reasonably be described as ground zero for militant Islam in Indonesia. Al-Islam school was founded in the early 1990s by two brothers of the three convicted bombers. Yet the bitter radicalism of Zakaria, together with the drawings of automatic rifles and slogans calling for jihad and martyrdom in students' essays pasted to one of the school's walls, is at odds with the beliefs and practices of the roughly 200 million Muslims in Indonesia. Since Arabic traders began to spread Islam across the archipelago about 700 years ago, the religion has assumed many forms. Indonesia...
...Second, the standoff with Iraq made necessary a large American garrison in Saudi Arabia, land of the Islamic holiest places--in the eyes of many Muslims, another U.S. provocation. Indeed, these two offenses were cited by Osama bin Laden as the chief justification for his 1998 declaration of jihad against America...
...first such lesson, obviously, is that even when it echoes the tactics, rhetoric and broad worldview of al-Qaeda's global jihad, some terrorism remains rooted in specific national conflicts. Indeed, part of al-Qaeda's game plan has been to do everything in its power to draw localized insurgencies involving Muslims in different parts of the world under its own global banner. The Chechen insurgency is, first and foremost, a nationalist struggle to secede from Russia, and the rise of a more extremist and Islamist element within that insurgency is, in part, an effect of the often indiscriminate brutality...
...Danish base north of Basra. Hommel was formally charged with negligence. She denies any wrongdoing. Unwelcome Guests SUDAN Tens of thousands of people marched in Khartoum in a state-sponsored protest, above, against possible Western intervention in the war-torn Darfur region. The protesters said they would launch a jihad if Western troops set foot in the country. Australia and Britain have both volunteered troops for a military force to protect civilians in Darfur, where the U.N., U.S. and aid agencies say the Janjaweed militia have killed as many as 50,000 black Sudanese. Khartoum, which denies it is backing...