Word: jihadization
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...Rantisi strike is certain to intensify Palestinian fury against Israel and the U.S. "The assassination was the outcome of the Bush-Sharon meeting," said Abdullah Shami, a leader of Islamic Jihad. A Palestinian official in Gaza said protesters were calling for retaliation against "American interests." U.S. officials take a different view. They insist Arab leaders had prior warning of the pact. "The rest of the [peace] process is going nowhere fast," notes a senior State Department official. "This is something real--moving people, tanks and troops." Perhaps, but just days after the deal was made came the bloody reminder that...
...generally accepted among historians of the Qaeda phenomenon that Bin Laden's organization grew out of the "Arab Afghans," young men recruited from throughout the Muslim world to join the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. The program to recruit, arm, train and deploy these men involved three U.S.-allied intelligence agencies - those of Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia - working in conjunction with the CIA, which was coordinating America's own covert assistance to the Afghan jihad. It suited the Egyptians and Saudis to ship off the restive Islamist elements who might pose a domestic challenge to wage...
...battle-hardened combatants whose radicalism had only been deepened by their Afghan sojourn in the company of some of the world's most extreme theologians of militant fundamentalism - were not welcome back home. Instead, bin Laden kept them together and continued to expand their ranks for purposes of waging jihad in support of embattled Muslims everywhere. And in their radical Islamist mindset, the primary enemy soon became the United States, which they perceived as an aggressive interloper in the Muslim world whose influence would stymie the restoration of Islamic rule throughout the old Muslim empire. The new ideology pioneered...
...long-settled, law-abiding group of immigrants are manifest. Nearby are four houses the police searched as part of their raids. Muslim elders are disgusted by terror. "Our younger generation is going astray," says Anwar Khan, a retired university lecturer, "getting brainwashed" by the siren song of jihad. The causes are familiar: poor and segregated education, discrimination, youth unemployment (in Luton it stands at 22%, twice the national rate), teens' yearning for belonging and purpose - and a belief shared by many of their parents that Muslims are being persecuted in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine and Iraq. "A lot of young...
...JIHAD...