Word: jihadization
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...published in this week's issue of TIME, the blind Egyptian cleric told Dowell that "everyone feels that it is Islam which has been put on trial. The U.S. wants to use this case to put Islam down." Rahman also said that the West has misinterpreted the Islamic term jihad as terrorism. "Self-defense is legal in all religions. 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...
...Knesset will be critical. Many in the Likud believe they can rewrite the rules allowing Israeli forces to go wherever they want. As for Arafat, he continues to make the Likud's job vastly easier with his inflammatory rhetoric to his own people. He continues to call for jihad, for the retaking of Jerusalem. Utterly absent is a new vocabulary aimed at creating a different image of the Israelis for young Palestinians. This is perhaps the most troubling aspect of his recent behavior...
...framework for talks intact, even though late last year they were at risk of tumbling down. For fear of igniting civil war when he arrived in the Gaza Strip, Arafat was at first permissive toward the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, and the much smaller Islamic Jihad, the two groups most militant toward Israel. But the soft approach merely emboldened the radicals, who committed a number of deadly terrorist attacks during the last three months of 1994. A double-suicide bombing last January that killed 21 Israelis convinced Arafat that further negotiations with Israel were impossible...
...calls Iran's assistance to such radical Islamic groups as Hizballah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad "support for terrorism." These groups say they are fighting Israeli occupation. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati asserts that the government "is against any kind of terrorism" and implies that hard-liners trying to sabotage Iran's relations with the West are responsible for the many assassinations of Iranian opponents in Europe...
...survived at least two other plots since 1992 amid a campaign by Muslim fundamentalists to replace Egypt's government with strict Islamic rule. Today's incident was the most serious attempt on Mubarak's life since he was elevated to the presidency in 1981 after an Islamic radical group, Jihad, assassinatedPresident Anwar Sadatduring a military parade in Cairo. At a press conference, Mubarak vowed: "Whatever happens, Egypt will not be shaken and we will not give up fighting terrorism...