In one prominent case last year, for instance, five men from northern Virginia who had travelled to Pakistan in search of jihad were convicted after their families tipped off the FBI.

比如去年的一个著名案例，来自维吉尼亚州北部的五个人到巴基斯坦寻找杰哈德组织，其家人向FBI告发了他们，他们被判有罪。

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"The ideology to kill the civilians, that is the root cause, not the jihad,".

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The cause,says Abbas, is the misinterpretation of the concept of jihad, or the struggle for Islam, by radical leaders and many clerics.

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He says that to him, jihad is the only alternative left for him and his family.

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In Saudi Arabia, where the government has been trying to tame its radical clerics, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Aal al-Sheikh, the Grand Mufti, issued a fatwa in October, 2007, forbidding Saudi youth to join the jihad outside the country.

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He could argue to his people that hitting Hamas and the Islamic Jihad was necessary to safeguard the peace process and, with it, the future promise of a Palestinian state.

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McCarthy is the author of The Grand Jihad and Willful Blindness, both New York Times bestsellers.

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