Word: jihadization
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...concept of jihad, too, would have kept the killers from committing their murder if they had understood it properly. Jihad literally means “struggle,” not holy war. Prophet Muhammed said that the most important (“greater”) jihad is an internal struggle for perfection, while the less important (“lesser”) jihad is the physical struggle against an enemy. This greater jihad is the struggle to conduct oneself in the way that God would want humans to conduct themselves. Achieving this requires waging a jihad against one?...
...ASIA THAILAND: The insurgency in the country's south is almost certainly connected to a global jihad...
...mother, ever the worrier, had not wanted me to go to Times Square for New Year’s Eve 2003, afraid as always that that would be the night terrorists would decide to turn 42nd St. into the latest battleground for jihad. Which of course meant that my then-girlfriend, Allison, and I would not only be headed to watch the ball drop, but we would try to make our way as far forward as possible. Despite arriving at our decision well past 11 p.m., with our Patrolmen’s Benevolence Association cards in hand, we coasted through...
...Warriors of Martyrdom." A sample: "Sacrifice your flesh to the last drop of blood ... blood that will trickle down the warriors' bodies and flood the soil in red, reflecting a red radiance across the sky at dawn and dusk, the East and West calling on warriors to declare jihad." Also noteworthy is the paucity of references to the liberation of the south. Farish Noor, a Malaysian expert on Islam who recently spent several weeks in the region, says "the language used is the same with international jihad. It looks like the manuscript has been transplanted into [southern] society. In fact...
...create a deep distrust. "There is no sincerity," says Nidir. "There is a big gap between what is promised and what's implemented. If the government does live up to what it has promised, the violence and tension will be lessened." But so long as the ideology of global jihad continues to gain recruits in the south, neither iron nor velvet will soon bring peace to the region. "There are thousands of others like me out there," Abdullah Akoh the ustaz told TIME. "Almost every day someone gets shot or a bomb goes off and the police and army...