Sentence examples for jihad to overthrow from inspiring English sources

"Isn't this a clear contradiction?" At another point, Zawahiri concedes the failure of Al Jihad to overthrow the Egyptian government, then adds, "Neither has the eighty-year-old jihad kicked the occupier out of Palestine.

Khan's rationale was that the Pakistani government had been preparing negotiations with the terrorists who have declared a jihad to overthrow the state.

The goal of Islamic Jihad was to overthrow the civil government of Egypt and impose a theocracy that might eventually become a model for the entire Arab world; however, years of guerrilla warfare had left the group shattered and bankrupt.

In 1987, Egypt accused Adel of trying to establish a military wing of the militant Islamic group al-Jihad, and of trying to overthrow the government.

Zawahiri and Islamic Jihad were Egyptians who sought to overthrow the secular regime in Egypt and replace it with an Islamic theocracy.

Asked what the money was for, two members of the group said jihad in Kashmir, where Islamic guerrillas are fighting to overthrow Indian rule.

(The leadership of Algeria's most extreme rebel faction, the Groupe Islamique Armé, included several "Arab-Afghans," veterans of the jihad against the Soviet Army who now hoped to overthrow their own "impious" government).

But, even so, they confirmed, jihad must be exercised only in self-defense or to overthrow an oppressor.

But here's what vast majority of Islamic scholars, for centuries, have decreed when it comes to jihad by the sword: it can be exercised only to overthrow an oppressor or in self-defense.

The leaders of Al Jihad, especially Zawahiri, wanted to use their well-trained warriors to overthrow the Egyptian government.

Mr. bin Laden's two top lieutenants come from a radical group, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, that has been fighting for more than 20 years to overthrow the Egyptian government.