Jihad vs Taliban - What's the difference?
jihad | taliban |
A holy war undertaken by Muslims.
* 1938 , "Holy War", Time , 22 Aug 1938:
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 26:
* 2013 , Mona Mahmood & Ian Black, The Guardian , 8 May 2013:
An aggressive campaign for an idea.
a personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and against evil
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To participate in a jihad
A Sunni Islamic student movement organized in Afghanistan in 1994 by the radical mullah (w).
A Taliban militia.
* 2005 , Merajuddin Pathan, quoted in Scott Baldauf, “
* 2008', Raza Khan, “
* 2009', Carlotta Gall, “
A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.
As a noun jihad
is a holy war undertaken by muslims.As a verb jihad
is to participate in a jihad.As an adjective taliban is
taliban.jihad
English
(wikipedia jihad)Alternative forms
* jehadNoun
(en noun) ("jihad on Wikiquote")- Young Iraqis of both sects obeyed the imams' ruling last week by rushing to conscription offices in hot, dirty, dusty Bagdad to offer themselves or their money for the jihad .
- Small groups of killers, the scent of blood in their nostrils, now fanned out by taxi, bicycle or even on horseback into the surrounding countryside, spreading the word that a general jihad , or ‘holy war’, had broken out.
- The Jabhat al-Nusra media, with songs about jihad and martyrdom, is extremely influential.
Verb
(jihad)See also
* Crusade * holy war * infidelAnagrams
* ----taliban
English
(wikipedia Taliban)Alternative forms
* TalebanProper noun
(en proper noun)Noun
(en-noun)Taliban coming in from cold”, in The Christian Science Monitor , 2005 April 28:
- We will deal with the Afghan Taliban' through dialogue. And we will handle the Pakistani ' Taliban with bullets.
Afghan, Pakistani '''Talibandiverge on goals”, in ''The Washington Times , 2009 November 18:
- Not everyone accepts the premise of a complete rupture between the two Talibans .
Pakistan and Afghan '''TalibanClose Ranks”, in ''The New York Times , 2009 March 27, page A1:
- The Pakistani Taliban', an offspring of the Afghan ' Taliban , are led by veterans of the fighting in Afghanistan who come from the border regions.
