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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] Jihad = essentially untranslatable term. CNN has bombarded us with the idea that it means "holy war." Incorrect, at least as far as the Qu'ran describes it. It gets messy, of course, and you get tangled in the interpretation of religious text, which I know you have little love for. But a moderate Islamic cleric in Rabat might use it to mean one thing, and a loony Islamic racist fellow in Britain (what's that one guy's name, again?) to mean another, and Arafat to mean another, and Hamas to mean another, and bin Laden to mean a fifth and so on. Basically if you're ostensibly Islamic you can term any struggle against something a jihad. What the something is and to what lengths you can go is wide open. And I think if the quotemaster were to investigate the Oslo Accords he'd find that the Palestinean Authority, under its terms, agreed to recognize the state of Israel. Show me where Arafat has called for the annihilation of Israel post-Oslo and I'll give you a cookie. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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