jihadize

English

Etymology

jihad +‎ -ize

Verb

jihadize (third-person singular simple present jihadizes, present participle jihadizing, simple past and past participle jihadized)

1. To increase the jihadistic nature of
   • 2014, Jordan Hahn, The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin:

     As noted in this book's introduction, the former would himself “jihadize” years later

   • 2008 Post-Soviet Affairs - Volume 24 - Page 7

     In late 2005, the efforts to "jihadize" the ChRI underground state and mujahedin forces sparked an open fissure between the nationalist Sufi faction

   • 2007 Pakistan Horizon - Volume 60, Issue 2 - Page 94

     Back then, the US strategy to jihadize the madressahs in order to create uncompromising mujahideen against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan had a downside to it as the textbooks filled with radicalizing jihadist overtones were distributed