ISS: Pakistan, Jihad, and Ethnicity
Article by Asghar Ali Engineer about the factors responsible for the violence in the country and the misuse of "jihad" by the Jamat-e-Islami.
Ain-al-Yaqeen: French Muslims Adhere to Islamic Values and Reject Extremism
Results of a poll of Muslims in France and an examination of the extremist movements that emerged in the 1970's.
Christian Science Monitor: The Tenets of Terror
The ideology of jihad and the rise of Islamic militancy. List of Islamic extremist groups [PDF] and links.
Terrorism and Islamism - Politics in the Name of the Prophet
An article by Eric Rouleau argues, firstly that the West has confused the many kinds of political Islam and presumed a false link between terrorism and the religion, and secondly that the Islamists' political and social programme gains more favour with the public than their religious message.
Jammu-Kashmir.com: Understanding Jihad
Farida Khanam explains the Arabic meaning and the Islamic connotations of the word.
Jammu-Kashmir.com: The Command of War in Islam
Khalida Adeeb writes about people who wage war against their supposed enemies and justify these actions by citing those Quranic verses, yet there are clear reasons why their fighting does not fall into the category of jehad fi Sabilillah (in the name of God).
Jammu-Kashmir.com: Religion of the Jahiliya: Jihadism is Kufr, not Islam
Sultan Shaheen discusses the emergence of a new religion, similar to pre-Islamic Jahiliya, in Pakistan and practiced by the Taliban which has as a basic tenet that that all non-Jihadists are kafir and deserve to be killed.
Omaid Weekly: Synod for slaughter
An editorial and articles about radical Islamism and the Taliban.
Washington Institute: Arab States vs. Islamists
Summary of Ibrahim Karawan to the Policy Forum, including the Arab states' distinction between militants and incrementalists.
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