On Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, Hamas issued a statement calling “all Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, and free people worldwide” to “muster all your energies, and mobilize in numbers, both light and heavy, ...

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The meaning of the word "jihad" has been debated by scholars for centuries. At two recent trials in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, it became clear that the argument -- an especially loaded topic ...

Friday the 13th took on a heightened sense of dread after a rumor trended on social media the previous day that warned of a potentially violent "Day of Jihad," or "Day of Rage," on Oct. 13, 2023. In a ...

NEW DELHI: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind president Maulana Mahmood Madani on Saturday said the term “jihad” is being deliberately “misused” to malign the Muslim community, stressing that it actually means a ...

As a Muslim American, I was deeply upset to hear about the New Year’s Eve knife attack by Mr. Trevor Bickford in Times Square. In the days following the violence, news agencies began to report that Mr ...

NEW DELHI: Defending Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Mohibbullah Nadvi, who used the word “jihad” in Parliament, Aazad Samaj Party (ASP) chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Thursday said the term means the same as ...

As much grief as Muni got over its “Defeat Jihad” ads it ran last summer, it's somewhat surprising to learn that the transit agency would want to risk starting a holy war in San Francisco. According ...

In 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. "Soviet Vietnam" began after a call for Jihad. In 1979, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan; Afghans called for Jihad. The country turned into the epicenter ...

Professor of History Ayesha Jalal spoke in the Coolidge Room yesterday on the historical evolution of the concept of jihad and its implications for modern Islam. Jalal couched her largely historical ...