Synonyms for jihad
dʒɪˈhɑdji·had

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1. jihad, jehad, international jihadnoun

   a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels

   Synonyms:
   international jihad, jehad

2. jihad, jehadnoun

   a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal

   Synonyms:
   international jihad, jehad

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1. List of paraphrases for "jihad":

   al-jihad, al-salafiya, jihadiya, militant, jihadi, jihadist

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1. Khalid Batarfi:

   To the warriors of Lone Jihad: may Allah bless and guide your efforts.

2. Oumar Touré:

   Radical jihad reigned, they see music in your phone -- they take it away and break it. They see you with an instrument in your hands -- they break it.

3. Ryan Mauro:

   Closing Guantanamo Bay will have no impact on terrorist recruitment and radicalization, there is not a single case that I am aware of where a moderate, peace-loving Muslim became angry over the Gitmo issue and suddenly decided to wage violent jihad, behead innocent people, implement theocracy and commit human rights abuses like executing gays and abusing women.

4. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly:

   If you are a terrorist with an Internet connection, like the one on your ever-present cellphone, you can recruit new soldiers, plan attacks and upload a video calling for jihad with just a few clicks, and thanks to new and ever improving and proliferating encryption and secure communication techniques, it'll be a lot harder to find you and stop you before you take innocent lives.

5. Hamza Nmeie:

   There, we learned this ideology of jihad, we were told that there was no country in the world that was properly ruled by shariah. This was all new for me, but in Syria, I saw and heard even more extreme things than I had heard in Belgium.