Word: jihadization
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...these days depict it in a very different light--as corrupt, abusive and, with expectations of a U.S. attack mounting, increasingly vindictive. Dust-caked refugees fleeing the capital say streets are sealed off and soldiers go from house to house, press-ganging men of military age. "There is a jihad against the Americans going on. Why aren't you fighting?" the Taliban asked Kandaqa, a worker from Kabul, last week. He pledged his house as surety, then collected his family and fled across the mountains...
Some found what they considered a higher calling. King Fahd's most portentous move was his backing of the jihad against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The Saudis had supported Islamic political groups throughout the Middle East for decades, but the training of thousands of young Wahhabis was their first real taste of jihad. Among the recruits was a 21-year-old business administration graduate of King Abdul Aziz University named Osama bin Laden, a scion of a Jidda construction clan that made a fortune building the kingdom's infrastructure...
...safety of Arab-Americans. Americans who hear the bin Laden statements might actually be convinced that this is a war between Americans and Arabs, Christians and Muslims, the West and the Middle East. These Americans might be so blinded that they would see every Muslim as involved in this jihad, resulting in the kind of attacks on Arab-Americans that we saw in the days and weeks after the terrorist attacks. This would be a tragedy, but hardly what Rice had in mind when she asked the networks to curb their coverage...
...Arafat has plenty of difficulties of his own. Last Monday his police sparked a furious reaction across the West Bank and Gaza when they shot dead three anti-American demonstrators. Many local leaders of his own Fatah movement on Friday joined the Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad for peaceful marches protesting the U.S. air raids on Afghanistan, and there is little enthusiasm on the Palestinian streets for renewed dialogue with the Israelis...
...Palestinian anger - and, perhaps, that he can rely on Israel to provide sufficient incentive to prevent a Palestinian civil war; Anti-American protests in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, turned violent Wednesday, and police warned they would not tolerate any further violence; Malaysia's largest opposition party has called for jihad, and promised demonstrations outside the U.S. embassy on Friday...