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Jihad (struggle) is a holy war to defend Islam against nonbelievers and non-Muslims. Jihadists are holy warriors. BBC writes that jihadists see violent struggle as necessary to eradicate obstacles to restoring God’s rule on Earth and defending the Muslim community, or ummah, against infidels and apostates. However, the Islamic scholar Bassam Tibi writes: “The jihadists are followers of...

Despite defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, weakening al-Qaeda in Iraq, Yemen, and Somalia, and beating ISIS in Syria, the terrorists’ attacks and jihadism around the world have not diminished. It is fueled by the civil wars in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, as well as ethnic and sectarian conflict in the Middle East and...

Islam has been violent, coercive, retrograde, and deadly. Some of the gruesome events include: the beheading of drummer Lee Riby; slaughtering of British tourists in Tunisia; killing of François Hollande after the Charlie Hebdo killings; beheading of twenty-one Copts on a Libyan beach; and beheading of hundreds more around the world, who were later burned alive. The former British prime minister Winston Churchill wrote, “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing...

The resurgence of radical Islam (Islamist) and the fear that Islamic terrorists and Islamic fundamentalism may trigger a third world war or nuclear annihilation have aroused worldwide anxiety. In 2005, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted, by consensus, an International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism. This “Nuclear Terrorism Convention” addressed the unlawful possession or use of nuclear devices or materials by nonstate...

Terrorism is not simply caused by poverty, illiteracy, disparity, life in restive and repressive regions, disaffected citizens, prison places, or hostile environments, but also by perceived injustices and religious and cultural prejudices, most of...

For Muslims, there are two worlds: Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb. They are...

Salafists are the first three generations of Muslims and have the same ideologies as Wahhabis of the...

The essence of jihadism is given in the Quran:

Ahmadiyyas:  minority Muslim sects in South Asia

Ahmadiyya: Founded in Qadian, India, by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who died in 1908. Ahmadis, four million of whom are living in Pakistan, believe their founder was a renovator of Islam, a position some Muslims consider to be heretical. Ahmadiyyas believe the Prophet came as Krishna, the Hindu God. He said the Prophet will appear as Buddha sometime. Mirza Ghulam claimed toward the end of the...

Nirode Mohanty has taught, worked, and consulted on terrorism; surveillance; secure, satellite, and survival communications; GPS navigation; network architecture; nuclear scintillation; and signal processing for over thirty years. He has taught communications systems, information theory, coding, computer networks, satellite communications, sensor...