“Jihadism” does not exist in Islam
July 6, 2014 In a recent op-ed, Hocine Kerzazi speaks of the growing “jihadist movement” and explores the origins of jihad in Islam. Kerzazi speaks to both France’s Muslim population and to scholars around the world who study Islam. He states that “nowhere does the Qur’an gives the term ‘jihad’ the sense of armed conflict, that of…
