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This needs to be mentioned in the intro, as it is a commonly overlooked.
[[File:382px-AQ00100.jpg|thumb|right|[[Osama bin Laden]], a [[Sunni Muslim]] Jihadist.]]
[[File:382px-AQ00100.jpg|thumb|right|[[Osama bin Laden]], a [[Sunni Muslim]] Jihadist.]]
'''Jihadism''', also known as '''Islamism''' is a violent [[Fascism|fascist]] corrupt interpretation of [[Islam]] that is associated with [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] and [[anti-Christian]] [[Bigotry|bigots]]. The term takes its name from "Jihad", a word often confused for "Holy Warfare". It is considered a backlash to the liberalizations of the middle east, and as a defensive mechanism against the perceived erosion of tradition and culture in their homeland.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/opinion/29iht-edtibi.html</ref> The soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 particularly reenforced it, and led to a series of armed conflicts from the 1990s to today.<ref>http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/wed_archives06spring/habeck.html</ref>
'''Jihadism''', also known as '''Islamism''' is a violent [[Fascism|fascist]] corrupt interpretation of [[Islam]] that is associated with [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] and [[anti-Christian]] [[Bigotry|bigots]]. The term takes its name from "Jihad", a word often confused for "Holy Warfare". It is considered a backlash to the liberalizations of the middle east, and as a defensive mechanism against the perceived erosion of tradition and culture in their homeland.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/opinion/29iht-edtibi.html</ref> The soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 particularly reenforced it, and led to a series of armed conflicts from the 1990s to today.<ref>http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/wed_archives06spring/habeck.html</ref>
In reaction to the anger and grief of Americans over 9-11, many Americans have inaccurately believed that Islam itself is explicitly anti-Christian and anti-Semitic, when in fact this is the Jihadist corruption of Islam. Jihadists do not teach their followers that the Qu'ran presents Islam as an Abrahamic faith that has [[Moses]] in it<ref>Brannon Wheeler. Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis. Routledge, 2002.</ref> as well as [[Jesus]] as a prophet in Islam,<ref>Muhammad Ata ur-Rahim, Ahmad Thomson. Jesus: Prophet of Islam. TTQ, INC., 2003.</ref> but not as God's son.
==Overview==
==Overview==
However, traditional Islam has been criticized for some time, due to it demanding strict submissiveness, especially of women, and its predisposition to being violent, suspicious and even attacking other faiths deemed a threat to Islam. Jihadism that is not the Abrahamic faith as Islam was originally designed to be, but instead is a corrupted faith that emphasizes a constant need for Jihad (literally meaning " "to exert utmost effort, to strive, struggle" but used by Jihadists as meaning "war") against people labelled as "infidels". The corruption of Islam by terrorists and totalitarian dictatorships like in Iran and the [[Taliban]] in Afghanistan have transformed Islam from being an Abrahamic faith to being an explicitly anti-Semitic faith of Jihadism that denies Islam's influences from Judaism and Christianity. Moderate and liberal Muslims have denounced the Jihadist terrorists and believe that mainstream Islam has become corrupted over the years that there needs to be an [[Islamic Reformation]] similar to that of the [[Protestant Reformation]].<ref>Michaelle Browers, Charles Kurzman. An Islamic Reformation? Lexington Books, 2004.</ref>
However, traditional Islam has been criticized for some time, due to it demanding strict submissiveness, especially of women, and its predisposition to being violent, suspicious and even attacking other faiths deemed a threat to Islam. Jihadism that is not the Abrahamic faith as Islam was originally designed to be, but instead is a corrupted faith that emphasizes a constant need for Jihad (literally meaning " "to exert utmost effort, to strive, struggle" but used by Jihadists as meaning "war") against people labelled as "infidels". The corruption of Islam by terrorists and totalitarian dictatorships like in Iran and the [[Taliban]] in Afghanistan have transformed Islam from being an Abrahamic faith to being an explicitly anti-Semitic faith of Jihadism that denies Islam's influences from Judaism and Christianity. Moderate and liberal Muslims have denounced the Jihadist terrorists and believe that mainstream Islam has become corrupted over the years that there needs to be an [[Islamic Reformation]] similar to that of the [[Protestant Reformation]].<ref>Michaelle Browers, Charles Kurzman. An Islamic Reformation? Lexington Books, 2004.</ref>
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