Word: jihadization
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...jihad, or holy war, there are no age guidelines for combat. If a commander decides a boy is ready, then he fights. Fathers take their sons with them to the front. Orphaned boys go with their brothers or uncles. Mothers who demur are ignored. Forcing boys into battle is rare, since nearly all of them volunteer. It is what their ancestors have done for centuries, it is expected of them, and it is not to be questioned. "I was happy...
Afterward, he marches up to the teacher, salutes and marches back to his place. Ahmad Zia says he wants to go to the front in June, and the teacher doesn't smile. The child is not being cute. "I want to fight the jihad." Asked to define jihad, he replies, "Jihad is to fight Russians...
...Kham explains that he will go back to jihad once his brother recovers. And Rahmat Hussain? He too will want to return to the fight, Tor Kham says. Asked how he knows that, Tor Kham shakes his head. After a long silence, he looks away and says, "There is no jihad for him now. He is in the world of pain...
...Angeles, are drawn to the violence; even the fear, when it distills into adrenaline, carries illicit pleasure. What sets Los Angeles apart from Afghanistan, Burma and Northern Ireland is that gang warfare, with its spoils of drug money, gratifies greed. Money in South Central is the gang warrior's jihad -- a fitting retribution for a materialistic society...
...first hint of a breakthrough had come earlier in the week in the form of an unexpected announcement and a picture of a thin-looking man in a grimy T shirt.In notes delivered to an Arab newspaper and a Western news agency in Beirut, the group calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine declared it would release one of its captives "within 48 hours." With the announcement came a photograph of Jesse Turner, one of Polhill's fellow captives...