Sentences with phrase «of jihadists»

Although Muslim reform may seem like an oxymoron to those who see Islam only through the lens of graphic violence, Muslim reformers have been in the sights of jihadist groups such as at Qaeda for years.

But that crude caricature of religious belief and moral conviction is false; it's adolescent, if not downright childish; it inevitably lends itself to the kind of vulgarity that intends to wound, not amuse; and over the long haul, it's as corrosive of the foundations of a decent society as the demented rage of the jihadists who murdered members of Charlie Hebdo's staff.

The increased targeting of jihadists in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya provides proof that the Obama administration strategy to defeat terrorist groups in these countries with airpower and limited support to local governments has failed.

With attention in France now focused on the ever - present threat of jihadist attack, the trial in Paris will reach back to a time when Europe was repeatedly targeted by ruthless groups sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

Will they instead emerge as a permanently disloyal opposition and a potential source of jihadist attacks?

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Fundamentalist Muslims also have a special lexicon used to mislead Westerners — like being opposed to the killing of «innocents», where they actually mean innocent Muslims; or they say they are opposed to «oppression», meaning they are opposed to the oppression of Jihadist Muslims who want to forcefully convert the world to Muslim theocracy.

Of all the films thus far dramatizing the human cost of Jihadist extremism, this is one of the most affecting.

This appears to be quite insufficient in face of a Jihadist situation that is deteriorating in the Sahel with a phenomenon of reorganization and internationalization of armed Islamist groups.

The groups they are moving between are still comprised of jihadists who are battling the Afghan government and Coalition forces.

Nicole Wong, who previously served as the White House's deputy chief technology officer, said tech companies would be reluctant to create a database of jihadists videos, even if it could be kept current enough to be relevant, for fear that repressive governments would demand such set - ups to pre-screen any content they do not like.

Nevertheless, recent successes by Kurdish peshmerga and federal forces controlled by Baghdad point to a reversal of the jihadist group's offensive in Iraq, likely leading to its containment and eventual eviction from Mosul, Falluja, and Tikrit.

Wittingly or unwittingly, they presume a scripturalist interpretation of Islam, imagining that we can explain Islamic terrorism by drawing a straight line between authoritative texts and the actions of jihadists.

Another key feature of the jihadists» ideology is their rejection of and often rebellion against established governments of Islamic countries.

The last word of the jihadist was Allah Akbar.

The belief of the jihadist directed him to kill.

Until then they are just another kind of jihadist.

Perhaps he sees this as a method to raise a new generation of jihadists.

What about the thousands and thousands of victims of the jihadists??

Jirjal wanted Copts to rediscover, in the face of jihadist movements, not only their Christian traditions but also Egypt's pharaonic inheritance, of which Copts believed themselves to be the true stewards, because Coptic is the native tongue of Egypt.

Christians are appalled at the laughable prospect of Jihadist Muslims dying into martyrdom, surrounded by a host of virgins.

If Kristof denounces me with such abandon, how can the liberal culture he represents function peacefully in a world that includes conservative Muslims who, though by no means proponents of Jihadist radicalism, also get categorized with me as bigots, fundamentalists, and «on the wrong side history»?

Hearing the name today, most people think of the jihadist militant group, but the girls» name Isis comes from an Egyptian goddess.

The Home Office added: «We are determined to tackle extremism and always press for the removal of jihadist material on the Internet.

Most worrying for the West and Libya's neighbors is the growing strength of jihadist group, including the Islamic State, in the vacuum of power created by national divisions.

He desires strong sanctions on North Korea, Iran and Russia, supports extra-legal military strikes in areas of jihadist activity, and deeply distrusts China's economic and military rise.

Her claim today at the Chicago Tribune editorial board meeting that ISIS is motivated by the words of U.S. lawmakers, rather than a deep ideological commitment to waging war on the West to expand their caliphate, shows a shocking lack of understanding of the jihadists» true motivations.»

Not states, not companies, not Malian people, and at the end not even the Touaregs who started as allies of jihadists.

Full of Jihadist and enemy of all righteous.

The current Information Minister, Mustapha Abdul Hamid, at the time, argued that central to the Jihadi ideology is the assertion that a friend of your enemy is also your enemy, hence, though Ghana may have received them out of generosity, in the mind of a Jihadist, Ghana becomes a legitimate target for attacks.

The number of jihadist Web sites has grown from a dozen in 1998 to 4,800 today.

Gradually, those images are replaced by real (and really brutal) images of jihadists cutting off hands, whipping dissenters, and executing prisoners in the streets, captured on grainy cellphone videos by citizen journalists.

Moments later, a smooth and effective killer dressed in black leather, personifying the hardened emotion found on those stone - faced idols, murders an entire platoon of jihadists inside a dank apartment without breaking a sweat.

Their brother, Parvaiz, is seeking his own dream in the shadow of his jihadist father.

Mother of jihadist fighter sues French government for failure of stopping him at airport, Reuters

In it, Farrow called on social networks like Twitter and Facebook to «do more to stop terrorists from inciting violence,» and argued that if these platforms screen for things like child porn, they should do the same for material that «drives ethnic conflict,» such as calls for violence from Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi, the leader of the Jihadist group known as ISIS.

Faced with the threat of jihadist extremism, Bowman argues that Americans ought to rehabilitate the concept of national honor as a justification for warfare.

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