holy war

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Instead of worldwide holy war, they want to focus on national affairs, building friendly relations with all countries, including non-Muslim powers like the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

The word ordinarily means an inner struggle for justice, under traditional Islamic theology, but is also regularly used as a call for holy war by terrorist groups.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024

The year is 2065, the same year of that other sci-fi movie now in theaters, “The Creator,” in which the U.S. wages holy war against an AI.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

She considers this war her ‘jihad’, a term to denote a holy war or personal struggle in Islam.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2022

These were not the able productions of the London clergy, the Stillingfleets and Tenisons and Tillotsons, raising the standard of a holy war against the Catholic divinity that was pouring forth from the King's press.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles