Word: jihadization
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Israel expelled several thousand Palestinian workers to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip today and tightened travel restrictions on Palestinians, in an attempt to prevent revenge terrorist attacks after last week's assassination of Fathi Shakaki, the leader of the Islamic Jihad. "The fact that the Israelis are adopting such tough measures indicates that there is extremely serious concern of a terrorist response on Israel," reports TIME's Jamil Hamad from the West Bank. "I fear, however, that the Israelis are underestimating the effect of the restrictions themselves on Palestinians. These measures may do more harm than good: they...
Faculty and students lined up to ask the leader about issues such as his use of the term jihad, holy war, to refer to efforts for reconciliation...
...Mother Earth. Though Clinton has been accused of being just pale green, especially after he retreated in 1993 from imposing new grazing fees on federal lands, the White House has got the message. Al Gore, a best-selling conservationist, two weeks ago denounced Republicans on the Hill for a "jihad against the environment'' that had allowed lobbyists from "the biggest polluters in America'' to rewrite environmental law. And Clinton has threatened to veto any provisions to permit oil drilling in the Arctic refuge...
TIME: The Islamic term jihad can refer to a spiritual struggle or physical combat...
Rahman: Self-defense is legal in all religions. This is called jihad in Islam. The West has misinterpreted this concept. People who are defending their lands are called terrorists. Of course, this interpretation is useful to the West. It legitimizes attacks against any country in the Third World. Americans call them terrorists, and they take it to the U.N. in order to take legal action. And the U.N. does whatever the U.S. tells...