jihad
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In a message congratulating Mojtaba on his appointment Sunday, Hassan Khomeini—the grandson of the Islamic Republic’s founding ayatollah—offered “condolences on the martyrdom of your beloved father, who was a model of jihad and martyrdom.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
“I have been on a jihad to streamline the review process and get things out the door faster,” Dr. Pazdur said in 2016.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025
The danger is that Paul might be swayed to believe it, too, even as the hallucinogenic spice peppers him with visions of a jihad waged in his name.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024
The theory is a reversal of an older, and better known idea: "love jihad".
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2023
She’d been two years old when Ahmad and Noor had left Kabul for Panjshir up north, to join Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud’s forces and fight the jihad.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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World Religions
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The Middle East and Central Asia - Middle School
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The Middle East and Central Asia - High School
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