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  • "From what we're told, it was a contract from a crazy jihad faction out of Beirut.†   (source)
  • A book in German entitled Der Staat und die Autonomen, a book in Swedish with the title Revolutionary Terrorism, and an English book Islamic Jihad.†   (source)
  • He did not believe in terrorism or jihad.†   (source)
  • Or most of the groups which contributed the majority of members of the international jihad like the Algerian Rif tribes.†   (source)
  • CONTACT US FOR JIHAD TRAINING, they would say, listing a phone number to call.   (source)
    jihad = holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • What does jihad have to do with killing women and children?   (source)
    jihad = a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • My father says that in our part of the world this idea of jihad was very much encouraged by the CIA.   (source)
    jihad = holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • The father could not join the jihad then; he'd have to stay home and care for his child.   (source)
    jihad = a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • Your brother Farhad joined the jihad in 1980.   (source)
  • Did you fight jihad?   (source)
  • He told me about a time shortly after he and his father joined the jihad and fought the Shorawi in the Panjsher Valley.   (source)
  • There was even a headmaster from Shangla who would boast that his greatest success was to send ten boys in Grade 9 for jihad training in Kashmir.   (source)
    jihad = holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • But that had been during the Soviet war, Tariq said, the days of jihad and worldwide interest and generous funding and visits from Margaret Thatcher.   (source)
    jihad = a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • The Quran teaches us sabar—patience—but often it feels that we have forgotten the word and think Islam means women sitting at home in purdah or wearing burcias while men do jihad.   (source)
    jihad = holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • During the Afghan jihad many madrasas had been built, most of them funded by Saudi money, and many young men had passed through them, as it was free education.   (source)
  • An Islamic Jihad Council, formed in Peshawar by several of the Mujahideen factions, would oversee things for two months, led by Sibghatullah Mojadidi.   (source)
    jihad = a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • The clerics of the mosques would often talk about the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in their sermons, condemning the Russians as infidels and urging people to join the jihad, saying it was their duty as good Muslims.   (source)
    jihad = holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • Many of the drawings depict tanks running over huts, men brandishing AK-47s, refugee camp tents, scenes of jihad.   (source)
    jihad = a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • Mammy said that before he left with Noor to join the jihad against the Soviets, back in 1980, it was Ahmad who had dutifully and competently minded these things.   (source)
  • It was as if under Zia jihad had become the sixth pillar of our religion on top of the five we grow up to learn—the belief in one God; namaz, or prayers five times a day; giving zakat, or alms; roza, fasting from dawn till sunset during the month of Ramadan; and Haj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every able-bodied Muslim should do once in their lifetime.   (source)
    jihad = holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • Jihad was another forbidden word.   (source)
    jihad = a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
  • She'd been two years old when Ahmad and Noor had left Kabul for Panjshir up north, to join Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud's forces and fight the jihad Laila hardly remembered anything at all about them.   (source)
  • Corrupt, greedy Mujahideen commanders, armed to the teeth, rich off heroin, declaring jihad on one another and killing everyone in between-that's what.   (source)
  • The jihad was over.   (source)
  • Particularly now that the American president, Reagan, had started shipping the Mujahideen Stinger Missiles to down the Soviet helicopters, now that Muslims from all over the world were joining the cause: Egyptians, Pakistanis, even wealthy Saudis, who left their millions behind and came to Afghanistan to fight the jihad.   (source)
  • And he calls this jihad.   (source)
  • They declared jihad on him, the mullahs, the tribal chiefs.†   (source)
  • This was what jihad was all about, he said.†   (source)
  • Then came the Butlerian Jihad — two generations of chaos.†   (source)
  • Through each gap the jihad raged away down the corridors of the future.†   (source)
  • JIHAD: a religious crusade; fanatical crusade.†   (source)
  • She glimpsed the jihad and said: "You cannot loose these people upon the universe!"†   (source)
  • "Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said.†   (source)
  • It was a lessening of the man, and Paul felt the ghost-wind of the jihad in it.†   (source)
  • But they cannot know I do it to prevent the jihad.†   (source)
  • And over all loomed the jihad, bloody and wild.†   (source)
  • Then it will be only legend and nothing to stop the jihad.†   (source)
  • If there's another way to prevent the jihad ….†   (source)
  • He had thought to oppose the jihad within himself, but the jihad would be.†   (source)
  • GREAT REVOLT: common term for the Butlerian Jihad.†   (source)
  • BUTLERIAN JIHAD; see Jihad, Butlerian (also Great Revolt).†   (source)
  • There she met a Jordanian named Jalal Nasser who taught her about the beauty of jihad and martyrdom.†   (source)
  • He also announced that interpretation of the Koran since the Shi'ites" seedship days had definitely shown that the God of Islam would neither condone nor allow the slaughter of the innocent, no matter how many jihads were proclaimed by tinhorn heretics like the New Prophet.†   (source)
  • Looking at the pictures, Adel wished he had been around to fight jihad alongside his father in those more adventurous days.†   (source)
  • Jihad also earned you certain rights and privileges, he said, because God sees to it that those who sacrifice the most justly reap the rewards as well.†   (source)
  • The revelations of what he now knew his father had done—first in the name of jihad, then for what he had called the just rewards of sacrifice—had left Adel reeling.†   (source)
  • Jihad, of course.†   (source)
  • Here was the unborn jihad, he knew.†   (source)
  • And the race knew only one sure way for this—the ancient way, the tried and certain way that rolled over everything in its path: jihad.†   (source)
  • For a detailed study on how Richese and lx escaped the more severe effects of the Butlerian Jihad, see The Last Jihad by Sumer and Kautman.†   (source)
  • The more he resisted his terrible purpose and fought against the coming of the jihad, the greater the turmoil that wove through his prescience.†   (source)
  • Mankind's movement through deep space placed a unique stamp on religion during the one hundred and ten centuries that preceded the Butlerian Jihad.†   (source)
  • SERVOK: clock-set mechanism to perform simple tasks; one of the limited "automatic" devices permitted after the Butlerian Jihad.†   (source)
  • And he knew what lay in that snare—the wild jihad, the religious war he felt he should avoid at any cost.†   (source)
  • The Guild was the second mental-physical training school (see Bene Gesserit) after the Butlerian Jihad.†   (source)
  • And Paul had sensed the jihad in their words, shrugged off the question with one of his own—learning then that Kaleff, the elder of the two, was ten, and the natural son of Geoff.†   (source)
  • BENE GESSERIT: the ancient school of mental and physical training established primarily for female students after the Butlerian Jihad destroyed the so-called "thinking machines" and robots.†   (source)
  • She is bringing the jihad.†   (source)
  • It had been a strange day with these two standing guard over him because he asked it, keeping away the curious, allowing him the time to nurse his thoughts and prescient memories, to plan a way to prevent the jihad.†   (source)
  • There was no past occupying the future in his mind …. except …. except …. he could still sense the green and black Atreides banner waving …. somewhere ahead …. still see the jihad's bloody swords and fanatic legions.†   (source)
  • JIHAD, BUTLERIAN: (see also Great Revolt) — the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."†   (source)
  • …of Chusuk, the Buddislamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankiveil and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur surviving on Salusa Secundus, the pervasive Obeah Ritual, the Muadh Quran with its pure Ilm and Fiqh preserved among the pundi rice farmers of Caladan, the Hindu outcroppings found all through the universe in little pockets of insulated pyons, and finally, the Butlerian Jihad.†   (source)
  • See Jihad, Butlerian.†   (source)
  • During a dry season in 1991 and 1992, the Islamic government in Khartoum declared jihad in the Nuba region and launched an offensive to drive indigenous groups from the valleys.†   (source)
  • He spoke about the Wahhabi madrassas sprouting like cancerous cells, and the billions of dollars Saudi sheikhs carried into the region in suitcases to fuel the factories of jihad.†   (source)
  • The five of us shared quick looks—what they were calling "the bomb hoax by Nature's Jihad" was the lead story.†   (source)
  • But the World Bank concluded that 15 to 20 percent of madrassa students were receiving military training, along with a curriculum that emphasized jihad and hatred of the West at the expense of subjects of like math, science, and literature.†   (source)
  • After all, she was politically active, she had left footprints on the Internet, she had lost her one and only love to the jihad.†   (source)
  • The government waged its jihad in the Nuba with the goal of terrorizing civilians until they fled the fertile valleys—land the government began distributing to its cronies, mostly Arab entrepreneurs from the north.†   (source)
  • A terrorist group known as Nature's Jihad has called the FBI with information that they've planted a bomb on the 1-40 bridge over the Arkansas River by Webber's Falls.†   (source)
  • Islam was their only bridge, but Safia had almost no understanding of the tenets of jihad or even the basics of Islamic practice.†   (source)
  • My group, Nature's Jihad (Shaunee came up with our name), planted it just below the waterline on one of the pylons (a word Damien had come up with) of the bridge that crosses the Arkansas .†   (source)
  • "The most famous of these madrassas, the three-thousand-student Darul Uloom Haqqania, in Attock City, near Peshawar, came to be nicknamed the "University of Jihad" because its graduates included the Taliban's supreme ruler, the secretive one-eyed cleric Mullah Omar, and much of his top leadership.†   (source)
  • He was happiest when surrounded by poets and men of learning, but mainly it was the concept of jihad, or holy war, that consumed him.†   (source)
  • We have learned that shortly after two thirty this afternoon the Oklahoma branch of the FBI received a bomb threat from a terrorist group calling themselves Nature's Jihad.†   (source)
  • In his "Declaration of Open Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," meaning Saudi Arabia, where five thousand U.S. troops were then based, he exhorted his followers to attack Americans wherever they found them, and to "cause them as much harm as can be possibly achieved.†   (source)
  • We're not Nature's Jihad.†   (source)
  • Nor was there any reference to one Zizi al-Bakari, investment manager for the House of Saud and CEO of Jihad, Incorporated.†   (source)
  • After completing a crash course in the basics of ritual and belief, Natalie's instructors immersed her in the concepts of Islamism and jihad.†   (source)
  • She spoke of Ziad's commitment to jihad and his hatred of Israel and America as though they were noble pursuits.†   (source)
  • With her head spinning with Islam and jihad, she would set out for training runs along the dusty farm roads.†   (source)
  • Margreet Janssen was suddenly the new symbol of the global jihad, a former Christian from a European country who was now a lethal member of the community of believers.†   (source)
  • He associated with radical Muslims, was a member of the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, and attended a mosque where a cleric from Saudi Arabia regularly preached a message of jihad.†   (source)
  • Posing as a gifted if taciturn European-based art restorer, he eliminated some of Israel's most dangerous foes—including Abu Jihad, Yasir Arafat's talented second-in-command, whom he killed in front of his wife and children in Tunis.†   (source)
  • By then, it was early summer, and Jalal had been freed from his backbreaking course load at King's College—a single seminar having something to do with the impact of Western imperialism on the economies of the Arab world—which left him free to pursue jihad and terrorism to his heart's content.†   (source)
  • It was possible they were self-starters, lone wolves, followers of a leaderless jihad who had constructed a five-hundred-kilogram bomb under the noses of French intelligence and then delivered it expertly to their target.†   (source)
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