Word: jihadization
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...prestige it attracts. That's true of both the indigenous Kashmiri militants and the "guest mujahedin" who come in from Pakistan, veterans of ISI-run training camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and former Taliban-ruled territory in Afghanistan, who subscribe to the same ideal of waging a purifying jihad...
...That is part of why I wrote this speech,” Yasin said. “Jihad is not something that should make someone feel uncomfortable. It’s a matter of other people deciding what they think jihad is and attributing to the word the product of their own imagination...
...Zubaydah, whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Mohammed Husayn, grew up comfortably middle-class. In his teens he became interested in Islamic extremism, drawn there by the Palestinian cause, and by age 18 he was in Gaza as a member of Islamic Jihad. In the mid-1990s he moved to Afghanistan, and soon Osama bin Laden placed him in the border town of Peshawar, Pakistan. There, Zubaydah acted as a kind of semi-permeable membrane, passing on to al-Qaeda volunteers he deemed acceptable. As a cover, he posed as a honey merchant but nonetheless attracted notice from...
...that is his power base. Pakistan's intelligence service and military had nurtured the Taliban, helped it win power and fight off its enemies. The camps run by al-Qaeda had also been used, with the connivance of Pakistani intelligence officers, to train Pakistani and Kashmiri militants for the "jihad" in Kashmir. Letting go was not easy, and Musharraf was forced to purge the top ranks of his military and intelligence services of Taliban sympathizers in order to head off any signs of mutiny...
...trying to divert hostility to his support for the Americans in Afghanistan by channeling the extremists' energies towards India. But even if he were doing his level best to stop such attacks, Pakistan's militant Islamists may well learn from the experience of their Palestinian cousins. Hamas and Islamic Jihad long ago learned that attacking Yasser Arafat directly would earn them the ire of the Palestinian people, and that the best way to challenge Arafat was to launch terror attacks against the common enemy - that way they could simultaneously undermine Arafat's negotiating strategy and maintain popular support. In Pakistan...