Jihadism (also jihadist movement or jihadi movement) is a controversial term to describe the renewed focus on armed jihad in radical Islamic fundamentalism. Jihadism emerges in the 1960s, with roots in the late 19th and early 20th century ideological developments of Islamic revivalism, developed into Qutbism and related ideologies during the mid 20th century. The rise of jihadism was re-enforced by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and has been propagated in various armed conflicts throughout the 1990s and 2000s. A specifically Salafist jihadism has been diagnosed within the modern Salafi movement by Gilles Kepel in the mid 1990s.
"Jihadism" in this sense covers both Mujahideen guerilla warfare and Islamic terrorism with an international scope as it arose from the 1980s, since the 1990s substantially represented by the al-Qaeda network. Jihadism with an international, Pan-Islamist scope in this sense is also known as Global Jihadism.
Although the adjective jihadist can be traced to the 1960s, and the abstract jihadism to ca. 1980, these terms did not see frequent use in popular media until after the 9/11 attacks of 2001. The equivalent terms of "jihadist movement" and "jihadi movement" date to the same period, entering use during the 1970s. The term "jihadism" translates or parallels Arabic jihādiyya جهادية. The alternative form jihadi for jihadist in English usage is a transliteration of the corresponding Arabic adjective jihādī جهادي.
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After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting : imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar....
Slim, the barber: You are armed, not the pig!
Fatima: He said if you didn't repay him your debt you'd end up in jail::Jafaar: What did you answer him?::Fatima: That we are already in jail!
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An Army Special Ops officer returns home from the Middle East to find his sister engaged to an anti-war activist. As the two men clash, and as the war-weary officer pursues a suspected female terrorist posing as a journalist, secrets are revealed, loves are lost and found, and finally, in a public showdown in which America's basic goodness is challenged and defended, lives are changed forever.
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Roger Ferris is a CIA operative in the Middle East; Ed Hoffman is his control at Langley. Cynicism is everywhere. In Amman, Roger works with Hani Salaam, Jordan's head of security, whose only dictum is "Don't lie to me." The Americans are in pursuit of a cleric who leads a group placing bombs all over Europe. When Hani rebukes Ed's demand that Jordan allow the Americans to use one of Jordan's double agents, Roger and Ed hatch a plan to bring the cleric to them. The plan is complicated by its being a secret from Hani and by Roger's attraction to a local nurse. Satellites and cell phones, bodies and lies: modern warfare.
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Trust no one. Deceive everyone.
Trust no one.
Ed Hoffman: Nobody's innocent in this shit.
Ed Hoffman: Ain't nobody likes the Middle East, buddy. There's nothing here to like.
Hani: You Americans, you are incapable of secrecy because you are a democracy.
Garland: ...and a list of emails for the Brothers of Awareness.::Roger Ferris: The Brothers of who the fuck?
Roger Ferris: You're a fat fucking piece of shit. We do this shit for a living. Go on a Goddam diet!
Hani: This is unusual. Your Ed Hoffman would rather have less information than share what he has with me.
Roger Ferris: Ed Hoffman doesn't know shit until he steals it from the guy on the ground and that's me.
Roger Ferris: Fucking cocksucker. How do you expect me to run an operation, when you're running a side operation that fucks up my own.
Roger Ferris: I can't do this anymore.::Ed Hoffman: Yes you can. Now you go home, get a few hours sleep and you call me when you're thinking straight.::Roger Ferris: Your know what, I AM thinking straight, alright, you're not, you can't 'cause you're a million fuckin' miles away.
Roger Ferris: Still thinking about pussy, Ed?::Ed Hoffman: Don't be a smart aleck. Thing about that Hani, he's bright, but he's also arrogant. That's gonna be his undoing.::Roger Ferris: You're talking about him, right?::Ed Hoffman: Just flow with me, buddy.