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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Jihadistnoun

    a Muslim who is involved in a jihad

Wiktionary

  1. jihadistnoun

    One who participates in a jihad, a mujahid.

  2. jihadistadjective

    pertaining to the Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of jihadism

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  1. jihadist

    Jihadism is a neologism which is used in reference to "militant Islamic movements that are perceived as existentially threatening to the West" and "rooted in political Islam." It has been applied to various insurgent Islamic extremist, militant Islamist, and terrorist individuals and organizations whose ideologies are based on the Islamic notion of jihad. It has also been applied to various Islamic empires in history, such as the Umayyad Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire, who extensively campaigned against non-Muslim nations in the name of jihad.Contemporary jihadism mostly has its roots in the late 19th- and early 20th-century ideological developments of Islamic revivalism, which further developed into Qutbism and related Islamist ideologies during the 20th and 21st centuries. The Jihadist ideologues envisioned Jihad as a "revolutionary struggle" against the secular international order to unite the Muslim World under the "rule of God". The Islamist volunteer organisations which participated in the Soviet–Afghan War of 1979 to 1989 reinforced the rise of jihadism, which has been propagated during various armed conflicts throughout the 1990s and 2000s.Gilles Kepel has diagnosed a specific Salafist form of jihadism within the Salafi movement of the 1990s. Jihadism with an international, pan-Islamist scope is also known as global jihadism. Studies show that with the rise of ISIL/ISIS/IS/Daesh, many Muslims from Western countries like Albania, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States traveled to join the global jihad in Syria and Iraq.

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  1. jihadist

    A jihadist is a person who practices Jihadism, a radical Islamic movement that advocates for militant struggle, often through violence, to defend or promote Islam. They believe in the concept of jihad, which can be interpreted as a holy war or struggle. Notably, their interpretation and practice of jihad is considered extreme and is rejected by the majority of Muslims worldwide.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of jihadist in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of jihadist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of jihadist in a Sentence

  1. Jennifer Cafarella:

    First, by dispatching expeditionary ISIS cells to areas such as Damascus and Lebanon, which can be activated and augmented at a later date, in addition, ISIS seeks to recruit local successful jihadist groups globally in areas such as Libya and Egypt, to bring them into the ISIS fold.

  2. Ryan Mauro:

    This successful strategy has enabled ISIS to win over the next generation of jihadists, a young radical can feel as if he or she is part of an actual community in the jihadist online world and, unlike Al Qaeda, ISIS can actually claim to be seizing ground and making progress. These videos help ISIS supporters feel as if they are part of an exciting turning point in Islamic history.

  3. Thahir Sahab Jamel:

    A man named Salam talked to me and got me connected to ISIS. He told me I needed to be a jihadist and fight the Shia government. He convinced me to fight the government, i started getting involved as they were planning operations to begin in Iraq and Syria.

  4. Ben Carson:

    If I were one of the leaders of the global jihadist movement and I didn't infiltrate that group of people with my people, I -- that would be almost malpractice.

  5. Angelino Alfano:

    We have dealt with a very large number of cases of dangerous individuals from the jihadist world but there is no list of 100 names.

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