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• n  a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
• n  a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal

• There is no exact Islamic equivalent to the concept of just war, but an equally complex notion stands in its place: jihad.
• To Osama bin Laden and the other radical militants of jihad, Sept.
• Established in 1987 by a trio of veterans from the Afghan jihad with funding from Osama bin Laden, this Wahhabi center quickly became known as the launchpad for militant jihad.

• jehad
• international jihad

News & Articles

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• Word "Jihad" found on wall in Delray Beach
  Posted By: Karl Man/CBS 12 News Delray Beach, Fla âIt was hard to miss on Saturday, laced in bold black lettering, nearly twenty feet high a piece of graffiti work reads âjihadâ.   In Arabic that term is used to describe a holy war.   Thousands of drivers saw the large message clearly when traveling northbound on I-95 in Delray Beach near the Atlantic exit. ...
  June 16, 2013 - WPEC CBS12 West Palm Beach
• Egypt Brotherhood backs Syria jihad, denounces Shi'ites
  By Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood blamed Shi'ites for creating religious strife throughout Islam's history, as the movement joined a call by Sunni clerics for jihad against the Syrian government and its Shi'ite allies. In a striking display of the religious enmity sweeping the region since Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah committed its forces behind Syrian ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Sunni clerics call for jihad against Assad, allies
  CAIRO (Reuters) - Leading Sunni Muslim clerics issued a call to jihad in Syria on Thursday at a meeting in Cairo which condemned the conflict as a "war on Islam" and said believers should use all means to ensure victory. ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Michelle Malkin in NEWS.com.au
  The kaffiyeh "has come to symbolise murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and...
• Ismail Haniyeh in Turkish Daily News (subscription)
  We will never recognize the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihad-like movement until the liberation of Jerusalem,Haniyeh said.