Definition of "jihadism" []

• The ideological movement within modern Islamic fundamentalism which advocates armed jihad. Islamist guerilla warfare or Islamist terrorism. (noun)

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• "Of course jihadism is not motivated solely by attacks against Muslim countries by the West."
• "The two parallel messages expanded simultaneously, as the foe was identified as jihadism, or in the lingo of the time, “Islamic fundamentalism,” or radical Islam and its derivatives."
• "President Bush has said that the war against global jihadism is more than a military conflict; it is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century."