Jihad
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NYU Tolerancemongers Attack Intolerance With Pie [Jihad]...Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, and Robert Spencer from "Jihad Watch," both of whom were there to talk about how there is apparently a Jihad, threatening America? Did you know about this? Anyhow the kids were not about to let this... In this article: Robert Spencer, Jihad, Whipped cream, Imperialism, World War II, and Forbes |
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Naples Daily News | 2 days ago
Guest commentary: Mistake is see-no-jihad, hear-no-jihad, speak-no-jihad mind-set
...of their commanders' recommendations. The war on terror is spoken of no more. We've adopted a see-no-jihad, hear-no-jihad, speak-no-jihad mind-set. Political correctness rules the day. Before it's too late, America must again awaken to the...
In this article: Islam, Detainee, United States, Cancer, Gitmo, New York City, and Defendant
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Washington Times | 3 days ago
LETTER TO EDITOR: Uncovering jihad
...Times for insisting that the Congress conduct hearings to uncover the jihadist motivations of the Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan ("Covering up jihad," Editorial, Tuesday). A wealth of data accumulated over the past decade on the Muslims...
In this article: Ideology, Respondent, The Washington Times, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Fort Hood
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | 4 days ago
Nato chief: quick exit from Afghanistan will unleash 'global jihad'
Withdrawing from Afghanistan too quickly would allow al-Qaeda to return and launch a "global jihad" against the West, the head of Nato has warned. Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued his warning just a day after Gordon Brown gave his clearest...
In this article: NATO, Afghanistan, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Gordon Brown, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Britain, Political settlement, and Taliban insurgents
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New Kerala | 4 days ago
Two Kerala politicians squabble over 'love jihad'
...for mocking at his son's inter-faith marriage with veteran comedian Jagathy Sreekumar's daughter. That is the only 'love jihad' he was aware of, Vijayan sarcastically said. "The engagement was done according to Hindu custom at the...
In this article: Kerala Congress, Islam, Jagathy Sreekumar, Pinarayi Vijayan, Thiruvananthapuram, Tellichery, Pathanamthitta, and Kottayam
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Washington Times | 4 days ago
EDITORIAL: Covering up jihad
Maj. Hasan will be on trial, but jihadism will not. Maj. Hasan has a clear interest in not raising the issue of his motives. There is no "jihad defense" in American law. His team will instead seek to demonstrate he lacked the mental capacity...
In this article: Barack Obama, Fort Hood, Radicalism, Yale Law School, and The Washington Times
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The Times of India - World | 6 days ago
Qaida promoting jihad from UK jails
PTI 16 November 2009, 12:35am IST Al-Qaida leaders are promoting 'jihad' from inside the high-security prisons in Britain by smuggling out propaganda for the internet and finding recruits, a home office-funded thinktank has claimed. In...
In this article: Al-qaida, Britain, London Times, Osama bin Laden, Milton Keynes, Europe, and London
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BBC News | 6 days ago
Islamists 'promote jihad in jail'
...and fatwas from within Long Lartin prison. "Adel Abdel Bary, a leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, produced written pro-jihadist tracts from within prison aiming to refute criticism of al-Qaeda, while Abu Qatada issued fatwas from...
In this article: Quilliam Foundation, Ministry of Justice, Al-Qaeda, Jack Straw, and Alan Johnson
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Times of India | November 13, 2009
Taliban target creator, blow up ISI jihad lab
...Friday completely destroyed the headquarters of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence in Peshawar that was once the laboratory of jihad run by Pakistan army officers. Taliban terrorists blew up an explosives-laden truck outside the...
In this article: Taliban, Peshawar, Suicide, Pakistan Army, Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan, and Gen James L Jones
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New Kerala | November 13, 2009
Woman denies 'love jihad', court lets her to go with lover
...probe into reports of non-Muslim women being lured by Muslim youth with the intention to convert them to Islam. "There is no 'love jihad' and I had gone with my boyfriend on my own," Siljaraj told reporters as she left the court premises...
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CNN | November 10, 2009
New jihad code threatens al Qaeda
...of the LIFG and Libyan security officials. The code's most direct challenge to al Qaeda is this: "Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers,...
In this article: Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya, and United States
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Jihad (pronounced: /dʒɪˈhɑːd/; Arabic: جهاد ), an Islamic term, is a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic, the word jihād is a noun meaning "struggle." Jihad appears frequently in the Qur'an and common usage as the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of Allah (al-jihad fi sabil Allah)". A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid, the plural is mujahideen.
A minority among the Sunni scholars sometimes refer to this duty as the sixth pillar of Islam, though it occupies no such official status. In Twelver Shi'a Islam, however, Jihad is one of the 11 Practices of the Religion.
According to scholar John Esposito, Jihad requires Muslims to "struggle in the way of God" or "to struggle to improve one's self and/or society." Jihad is directed against Satan's inducements, aspects of one's own self, or against a visible enemy. The four major categories of jihad that are recognized are Jihad against one's self (Jihad al-Nafs), Jihad of the tongue (Jihad al-lisan), Jihad of the hand (Jihad al-yad), and Jihad of the sword (Jihad as-sayf). Islamic military jurisprudence focuses on regulating the conditions and practice of Jihad as-sayf, the only form of warfare permissible under Islamic law, and thus the term Jihad is usually used in fiqh manuals in reference to military combat.
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