jihadism
Britishnoun
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Etymology
Origin of jihadism
C21: Arabic
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Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide added that the decline of global jihadism over the past decade doesn’t mean that the world has become a safer place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
However Baba Adou, a researcher at the University of Florida, warned that by talking with JNIM, the military would undermine its entire narrative in the fight against jihadism.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
This is the ideological foundation of contemporary jihadism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
It’s not even the war’s consequences, which are broadly understood to include, at a minimum, plunging Iraq into civil war, giving rise to a new generation of jihadism and, for a time, chastening American interventionism.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
"Today that strategic partnership is in tatters… while jihadism extends itself ever wider in the region, and roots itself more deeply in society."
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2022
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