And so the thousands of young Muslim men who flocked to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight against the Soviet occupation of a Muslim country, in their minds they were fighting a jihad, they were doing jihad, and they named themselves the Mujahideen, which is a word that comes from the same root as jihad.
Miile de tineri musulmani care s-au înrolat în Afganistan în anii '80 pentru a lupta împotriva ocupației sovietice a unei țări musulmane, în sinele lor luptau un jihad, făceau jihad numimdu-se Mudjahedini, un cuvânt ce provine din aceeași rădăcină.