jihadist
- noun
- /dʒɪˈhɑːdɪst/
- NSFW
- Reports indicate that several jihadists have taken control of key regions in the conflict.
- jihadist groups
- jihadist organizations
- jihadist movements
And it continues to inspire jihadists and and radical Islamists elsewhere.
- And it continues to inspire jihadists and and radical Islamists elsewhere.
- It's to get married, stay home and produce more jihadists for the cause.
- This was the Real IRA, not jihadists at all.
- They do things that pretty much a lot of the jihadists do.
- Yeah, kind of describing his own journey as as a jihadist.
- The flood of arms and jihadists into that little country, violence and the flood of millions of refugees out of the country.
- But you fucking Muslim piece of shit, you jihadist, we know what you are.
- I know the guy who shot the another jihadist just to take his wife.
Examples
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Our investigations confirm that Issa Karpov is a member of a militant Salafi group of Chechen Jihadists.
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The jihadist participated in the armed struggle to promote his religious beliefs.
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This is a Jihadist training manual.
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More likely, they will become the new shock troops of the international jihadist movement.
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And the danger of that is it's similar in a way to ISIS or some of these jihadist groups have carried out terrorist attacks.
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The new paradigm reflected the recognition that jihadist organizations could act on their own to advance their interests.
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America's culture of life stands in stark contrast to the jihadists' culture of death.
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Still, the small but dedicated groups of jihadists will not evaporate because of the lack of recruits.
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American success in Iraq would deny today's jihadists the symbolic victory that they seek.
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Regardless of what Chechens think of their cause, jihadists can attract Islamic extremists from across Russia and around the world.
Academic text (2008)
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Etymology
Jihadist comes from the Arabic word jihad, which means 'struggle' or 'effort'. The ending -ist means 'a person who does something', so a jihadist is someone who takes part in a jihad, and today the word is often used for people who fight for a religious cause.