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China Is Sleepwalking Into a Jihadist Trap Built in Syria (kevorkalmassian.substack.com)

submitted 5 days ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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How the Turkistan Islamic Party, Turkey, NATO and Julani’s “new Syria” are being positioned to threaten Xinjiang and the Belt and Road.

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[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The word Jihad gets used like this a lot but it's not very accurate. It means "one who undertakes a meritorious struggle" which means everything from a monk who fights earthly desires to a crusader who fights enemies of the Quran.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To a rebellion against the machines.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In reference to the Butlerian Jihad for the uninitiated. It was referenced as an event in the 1965 Dune series and often attributed to Samuel Butler's 1863 essay "Darwin among the machines".

It's sort of become its own trope in scifi in the same ways a Dyson Sphere has,