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  • noun The movement towards Islamic holy war.

Etymologies

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jihad +‎ -ization

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Examples

  • Then "potential targets are chosen, surveillance and reconnaissance begins," and finally, "jihadization" with an assault rifle or car bomb.

    latimes.com - News 2011

  • In recent years their religious beliefs were radicalized and the Internet exposed them to the ideology of Osama bin Laden and the global jihad (the process of "jihadization" known from similar events in the United States and other countries).

    Israelated - English Israel blogs 2010

  • (RNS) A New York City Police Department report that characterizes young Muslim men as susceptible to Islamic extremism and "jihadization" is biased and unfair, a Muslim civil rights group said Thursday (Nov. 20).

    Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami 2008

  • (RNS) A New York City Police Department report that characterizes young Muslim men as susceptible to Islamic extremism and "jihadization" is biased and unfair, a Muslim civil rights group said Thursday (Nov. 20).

    Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami 2008

  • The final stage is jihadization, where the people actually come to see themselves as being Mujahedeen or holy warriors.

    CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2007 2007

  • The report identified the four stages to radicalization as pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination, and jihadization, and said the Internet drove and enabled the process.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: NY police commissioner: Internet is "the new Afghanistan" 2007

  • The report identified the four stages to radicalization as pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination, and jihadization, and said the Internet drove and enabled the process. '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: NY police commissioner: Internet is "the new Afghanistan" 2007

  • Not everyone comes out at the end, at the jihadization stage.

    CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2007 2007

  • In an extensive report from Cairo on pan-Islamism and the jihadization of Islam in 1898, Max von Oppenheim advised the kaiser that in a future European war, raising such a revolution in the colonial hinterland of Germany's enemies would be a good tactic.

    Israelated - English Israel blogs 2009

  • Since the jihadization of the military by Pakistan's former president Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in the 1970s, the officer corps has continued as a force multiplier for the numerous terror groups headquartered in urban and rural communities across the country.

    Latest News - UPI.com 2009

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