What is the meaning of Al-Qaida?
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I had heard it means "The Boy Scouts of Death".
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Join Al-Qaida, Foreign Affairs branch.
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Explaine the meaning of Islaam to him.
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Definition by US Gov't.:  "Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience."\n\nThis word is used a lot lately in very imprecise ways.  For example, Iraqis who blow up US troops are not terrorists, because the troops are not noncombatants.  To call any government or any person working for any government "terrorist" is a contradiction in terms.  This doesn't mean that they may not be behaving in inappropriate ways, just that people should find something else to call them.\n\nFor example, if it is discovered that the men who carried out the Trade Center attacks were actually working for the government of, say, Iran, (and I am not implying that they were) then they would no longer be called "terrorists."  They would be "enemy combatants."  This is a distinction which is particulary relevant in the current political climate.
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Basically, it means that the military has total jurisdiction to try (go to court) with any person(s) or alien (non-citizen) who attacks or support attacks on military property or personnel.\n\nThis court is made up of a military commission (so like generals and possibly senators too).\n\nExample: you (an American) and your Arabian friend are associated with the Taliban decided to supply weapons for them to attack a US military base, and you were part of the attacking group.  You and your friend will be tried by a military commission.  Not in a tradition court with a judge and jury.  But in a panel without jury.
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its a definite article\nal = the\nال\n\nusually, like in al-sadr, its the city or region where the dude is from. muqtada al-sadr, muqtada (the guy from sadr (city))\n\nstephanie- where do you get your ignorance from? is it genetic? or a product of public schooling?
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Both.  \n\nHe is a terrorist in that he attempts to use terror and fear as his primary weapons to bring down a regime.  The fact that he's on the losing side deson't help this definition.  If by some odd act of entropy that we surrendered to the fool we'd be calling him a freedom fighter and a revolutionary.  Its all subjective, after all the victors write the history books.\n\nHe is also a fanatical fundamentalist who does not represent Islam nor the majority of its people, only a specifically deranged minority with a nasty tendency to explode.
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Look up Mr. bin Laden on the internet. Then look up some info on alternative theories to 9/11. Give yourself a full rounded education on the man. Also, you may want to check out "House of Bush/House of Saud." Good read, and you may be surprised to see how close our president is to this freedom fighter/terrorist. Also, You have to understand that not every country agrees with us, and how would you feel if another country was coming into the US and kidnapping people and taking over our country. As US citizens, would we not fight? Would we then be "freedom fighters" or "terrorists" when we launched attacks on the country which was invading us?
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Mujahid (pl. Mujahideen)is one who performs jihad (struggle) => One who struggles.\n\nJihadi is not used for the person who struggles, but it exists in the language. The addition of the ya' (i) at the end adds the meaning of belonging. Jehadi = anything that's related to or belonging to jihad. It's just like adding the "ic" suffix in English. So for Islamic for example, we say islami in Arabic.
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Well, the translation of Arabic words doesn't communicate the way Arabic does. And, here, yes the meaning might be "terror" but it's not terrorism (or the meaning you are trying to allude). In Encarta dictionary "terror" has these meanings: \n1. intense fear \n2. terrorism \n3. something causing fear. \n\nAnd the situational plot of the hadith was clearly made to the enemies of Islam at that time who continuously worked against Islam, attacked Muhammad, terrorized Muslims & even tried to kill the prophet just because they couldn't accept the truth of Islam. But later, most of the enemies converted to Islam. Muhammad was illegally expelled from his homeland, but later he conquered Mecca. He didn't kill anybody to conquer his homeland. Even when all the hostile enemies were defeated, and Muhammad was asked what to do with those enemies, he just said "they are forgiven". \n\nTo win the war against the aggressive foes, it was necessary to cause them fear. They were scared because they were weak from inside. The hadith above mainly means that.\n\nPlease note that Hadiths are not only quoted in books. They are scrutinized by highly educated scholars according to sitauational plot, time, logic, stress & other subjects. If someone (who never knew arabic) just picks one hadith out of 10,000 & say that Islam is terrorism then won't it be erroneous? I hope you will say "yes".\n\nMay God help people to understand right from wrong.
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To Shug and Ben, you obviously DON'T remember 9/11. Osama bin Laden, a Saudi, attacked the United States on that day. However, instead of going after the person who attacked us, Georgie went after Iraq. Where is Osama? In Tora Bora, protected by the Conserviweenies who're scared of protecting us just because Pakistan is harboring a terrorist. As for Iraq, this is for oil. Where were you?
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There is no direct translation\n\nIt means Peace from Salaam as well a submission {to the-God]\n\nI have furnished some sources beneath
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It is not.\nAl Quaida is based in many countries and primarily in Afghanistan. Iraq was a diversionary tactic to vent the anger the American people felt over the attacks on 9/11. No war being fought overseas prevents the possibility of another terrorist strike in the US. We need to be securing our borders and investigating the cells that are already in the US, instead of trying to build an empire in the middle east.\nEvery day thousands of illegal immigrants flow across our southern border. Included in this population are Chinese, Arab, South American, and other ethnicity's that could have terrorist intentions. The US Government will not spend hardly any money on closing this gap because it is not politically correct. They are perfectly willing to squander our tax dollars in the middle east, and have created the largest national debt ever. \nI could go to Mexico this afternoon and arrange to meet someone and bring back weapons, explosives, etc and not be molested by anyone in the process. If I can do it you damn well know there are others doing it. The likely hood of being caught doing anything on the Mexican Border is remote. We are undermanned and overwhelmed down there and no-one except a few vigilante groups seem to care.
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The destruction of the world trade centre and the attack on the pentagon has been described as the greatest act of terrorism. \nHowever history demonstrates that the most horrific acts of Terrorism has been carried out by the freedom loving democratic nation, the United States of America . According to their own Official FBI definition of terrorism: “Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.” \n\n IRAQ : \n From 1991 to the present day the United States Air Force and Navy have slaughtered over 200,000 civilian people in Iraq with Depleted Uranium missiles, cluster bombs, cruise missiles and other so-called “smart bombs.”\n During the “Desert Storm” terror campaign the arsenal also included fuel-air bombs and napalm. 177 million pounds of bombs were dropped on the people of Iraq in the most concentrated aerial bombardment in the history of the world. In the 110,000 sorties of the six-week onslaught the cowardly American and British pilots (and to a lesser extent French and Saudi pilots) mass-murdered at least 200,000 people, using depleted uranium missiles, napalm, cluster-bombs, fuel-air bombs, cruise missiles and other so-called “smart bombs.” The slaughter of civilian people in the Amariyah bomb shelter was a Prime example of this American/British state terrorism. Most of them were women, children, elderly, and invalids from a new housing development. Cowardly U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force jet pilots caught one sixty-mile-long column of fleeing Iraqi soldiers and Palestinian civilian families in vehicles on the Kuwait to Basra highway - and pounded them ruthlessly with bombs and machine-gun fire. The road, clogged by four lanes of one-way, bumper-to-bumper traffic, was carpet bombed by B-52s dropping 1,000-pound bombs, and repeatedly hit with laser-guided missiles and “smart” bombs. All the Iraqi soldiers, as well as Palestinian workers and their families, were slaughtered without mercy. The bloodthirsty American pilots gleefully described the massacre as “shooting in a sheep pen.” \n During the Desert Storm terror campaign at least 944,000 rounds of Depleted Uranium ammo were fired from American A-10 Warthogs all over Iraq and Kuwait . When a depleted uranium tipped shell strikes a tank or armoured personnel carrier it easily penetrates the armour and burns the crew alive. The impact also vaporizes the depleted uranium, creating an aerosol of radioactive heavy-metal particles which can spread as far as 190 miles on the wind. When inhaled or ingested, the depleted uranium particles cause chemical and radioactive damage to the bronchial tree, kidneys, liver and bones. Cancer often results, and the effects can even include genetic damage. \n The Dutch Laka Foundation estimates that the United States terror campaign left behind 300-800 tons of radioactive waste from this ammunition all over Kuwait and Iraq - poisoning the air, the land, the water and the people everywhere. Afterwards, wherever the depleted uranium firing had been concentrated, there were cancer epidemics among Iraqi civilians living nearby. In the ten years since then, sanctions, polluted water and depleted uranium together have killed somewhere between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 Iraqi civilian people. At least 600,000 of the dead are children. Cancer rates have quadrupled in areas of southern Iraq bombed by the American and British state terrorists. Since it began, thousands of Iraqi babies have been born with horrible birth defects. This is something that has never before been seen in Iraq . \n Over the course of only 43 days and nights, approximately 62,000-80,000 air-delivered cluster bombs were dropped on the Iraqi people by the American-led state terrorists. In addition, 10,000 MLRS rockets and 100,000 “Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition” artillery she
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what's a terrorist? \n\nyour question scares me. does that make YOU a terrorist.
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Al Qaeda\n\nGuys like him turn the world against America like you wouldn't believe
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(Terrorists)Its just a word that the american use when they want to justify there unjustified cruel actions against any person or nation if they dont obey the usa gov orders.\n\nActualy the american and israeli armies r terrorising the whole world on a very big scale of terrorism.\nThey r comiting all action of terrorism every day,\n\nThey r invading other countries (usa invaded/ Iraq,Afganistan  \nisrael invaded/Palastine,Lebanon and Syria  ) \nand threatning others(Iran,Syria,S.Korea) .\n\nThey kill civilians,womens and kids everyday.(in Palestine ,Iraq and Afghanistan)\n\nThey own the biggest arsenals of all types of WMD and nuclear missiles and bombs and they r still developing it(america is the ONLY nation who used nuclear bombs against humanity and israel is the ONLY country that own nuclear wepons in the middle east  )