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jihadize

jihadize

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Verb

jihadize (third-person singular simple present jihadizes, present participle jihadizing, simple past and past participle jihadized)

  1. To increase the jihadistic nature of
    • 2014 Jordan Hahn, The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin
      As noted in this book's introduction, the former would himself “jihadize” years later
    • 2008 Post-Soviet Affairs - Volume 24 - Page 7
      In late 2005, the efforts to "jihadize" the ChRI underground state and mujahedin forces sparked an open fissure between the nationalist Sufi faction
    • 2007 Pakistan Horizon - Volume 60, Issue 2 - Page 94
      Back then, the US strategy to jihadize the madressahs in order to create uncompromising mujahideen against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan had a downside to it as the textbooks filled with radicalizing jihadist overtones were distributed