Glossary of Terms

Three Mini Glossaries to Fellow Word Warriors (Updated)

At the request of several "word warriors" on my lists, here is an update of a late-2006 memo which lists more than a dozen of the Arabic and Islamic words we will need to break out of the habit-of-language box which currently makes us the bad guys and anoints the al Qaeda-style suicide mass murderers as the so-called jihadi "holy guys."

Three Mini Glossaries to Fellow Word Warriors

Here are more than a dozen of the Arabic and Islamic words we will need to break out of the habit-of-language box which currently makes us the bad guys and anoints the al Qaeda-style suicide mass murderers as the jihadi "holy guys." The ubiquitous (it's everywhere!) word Jihad is entered four times in order to more clearly define its several meanings.