So what is the arabic term for these editor SOBs fighting the Jihad with their irhabist brethren?

You mean fighting the hirabah, not so easy to change is it?

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Editors would not view this as elucidation but rather as assisting in a US propaganda program. Quite perversely, I can see the editors refusing - - on principle, no less - - to call the irhabists what they really are.

So what is the arabic term for these editor SOBs fighting the Jihad with their irhabist brethren?

My own thought is that Guirard's idea is smart but unlikely to catch on. My recollection seems to be that for the first full year or so and even longer after 9/11 every occurrence of "jihad" in the news media was followed by its translation, same with mujahideen, shira, and my personal favorite from Afghanistan, the loya jirga. I think editors tolerated this use of columninches almost out of necessity, to help its English-speaking readers understand what the jihadists were calling themselves.

A similar effort involving application of our own labels has, however, a different purpose, which is helping us understand what we ourselves are now calling them. Editors would not view this as elucidation but rather as assisting in a US propaganda program. Quite perversely, I can see the editors refusing - - on principle, no less - - to call the irhabists what they really are.

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