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• - Khalida Adeeb writes about people who wage war against their supposed enemies and justify these actions by citing those Quranic verses, yet there are clear reasons why their fighting does not fall into the category of jehad fi Sabilillah (in the name of
  
• - An article by Dr. Shireen Hunter about the Jihadist trend.
  
• - An editorial and articles about radical Islamism and the Taliban.
  
• - Summary of Ibrahim Karawan to the Policy Forum, including the Arab states' distinction between militants and incrementalists.
  
• - Results of a poll of Muslims in France and an examination of the extremist movements that emerged in the 1970's.
  
• - Sultan Shaheen discusses the emergence of a new religion, similar to pre-Islamic Jahiliya, in Pakistan and practiced by the Taliban which has as a basic tenet that that all non-Jihadists are kafir and deserve to be killed.
  
• - The ideology of jihad and the rise of Islamic militancy. List of Islamic extremist groups [PDF] and links.
  
• - Article by Asghar Ali Engineer about the factors responsible for the violence in the country and the misuse of "jihad" by the Jamat-e-Islami.
  
• - Farida Khanam explains the Arabic meaning and the Islamic connotations of the word.