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- noun The ideological movement within modern Islamic fundamentalism which advocates armed
jihad . Islamist guerilla warfare or Islamist terrorism.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of course jihadism is not motivated solely by attacks against Muslim countries by the West.
Johann Hari: Obama's Escalating Robot War in Pakistan Is Making a Terror Attack More Likely Johann Hari 2010
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The two parallel messages expanded simultaneously, as the foe was identified as jihadism, or in the lingo of the time, “Islamic fundamentalism,” or radical Islam and its derivatives.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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President Bush has said that the war against global jihadism is more than a military conflict; it is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century.
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Instead of fixing the country, we spend our time trying to convince lefties that terrorism, nukes, and jihadism is the biggest threats of our time instead of Bush and the Republicans.
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They need to be inculcated with certain views and ideas, and jihadism is very good about that.
Prophetic Justice 2006
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So his relationship to jihadism is very different from the relationship of the fellow-traveling Left to communism.
Beinart Talks Back 2006
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They need to be inculcated with certain views and ideas, and jihadism is very good about that.
Prophetic Justice 2006
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So his relationship to jihadism is very different from the relationship of the fellow-traveling Left to communism.
Beinart Talks Back 2006
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One of the characteristics of global jihadism is its decentralized nature, which makes this comparison even more bizarre.
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"The bottom line here," he said, "is that we are witnessing the emergence and the expansion of a jihadist recruitment factory in our midst, openly calling for jihad and for the establishment of a caliphate instead of many governments ... and in its last stage to what they call jihadism against America and its allies, that is, technically speaking, terrorism and massacre."
FOXNews.com 2010
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