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...Jihad”....
...Jihad had inspired a childhood friend who left Burnley in the late 1990s to fight in Afghanistan....
...“They talked on the podium and preached about the value and necessity of jihad,” he said. “I had belief, strong belief. [They] led me to join the Taliban.”...
...“Our jihad will continue until we have established and restored an Islamic regime,” a Taliban leader and ex-governor in eastern Afghanistan told the Financial Times....
...To defeat the Soviets, America had enthusiastically supported the regime of Pakistan’s dictator, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and had enabled Zia’s project of Islamisation, which sought to remake every aspect...
...2013 at China’s request, Pakistani authorities outlawed three transitional militant groups linked to al-Qaeda — the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and the Islamic Jihad...
...“[Muhammad] Hamsho is not evil,” said Mazen. “He’s an opportunist.”...
...His line of emirs dates from the jihad waged by Usman dan Fodio, born in 1754, the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, which overran much of what is today northern Nigeria....
...The main spokesman and head of external operations for Isis, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, has been killed in Syria, the group’s media outlet said on Tuesday....
...Al-Qaeda presents itself as a vanguard movement whose aim is to rally the Muslim masses to the cause of jihad....
...Muhammad Jibril Abdul Rahman, known as Prince of Jihad, is designated as a terrorist on the sanctions lists of the US, the EU and the UN — and subject to an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo....
...In the past you have had students from Karachi University [a mainstream state funded university] go for jihad....
...Yet in his 2012 presidential campaign, Mr Gingrich suddenly warned that some Muslims were conducting “stealth jihad” and trying to take over the US government....
...“Jihad in the month of Ramadan is not like other jihad. Congratulations to those who spend Ramadan fighting for the sake of God,” he said in an audio message on Tuesday....
...An especially puritanical and uncompromising version of this belief can be traced back to the 18th-century revivalist Muhammad ibn Abd-al Wahhab, whose alliance with the Saud dynasty in north-eastern Arabia...
...He had also talked about travelling to Somalia in 2009 and then went there for the purpose of “engaging in violent jihad”, according to the indictment....
...Palestinians said the air strikes hit training bases of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a group that has often defied the ceasefire....
...On the wall beside them are the flags of the Syrian opposition, Turkey and the black flag of jihad....
...Today, Mr Abubakar has another jihad on his mind – though not one under his control....
...LeT was forged in the crucible of the jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan....
...Muhammad Sahimi, University of Southern California 33. Elaheh Sharifpour-Hicks, Human Rights Expert 34....
...He is probably the most cogent exponent of the view that US Muslims should wage jihad against their country....
...Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of the ‘Lashkar-e-Taiba’ militant group and former university professor, was arrested in a crackdown by Pakistan’s authorities after the killing of 166 people in the Mumbai...
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