cyberjihad
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cyberjihad (countable and uncountable, plural cyberjihads)
- Jihad (Muslim holy war) conducted by means of computers and the Internet.
- 2001, United States Dept. Of Defense Office Of The Secre, John Arquilla, David F. Ronfeldt, Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy, page 48:
- Palestinian hackers who support the al-Aqsa Intifadah have been waging a cyberjihad against Israeli government and commercial targets, defacing web sites and conducting DOS attacks.
- 2004, Jocelyne Cesari, When Islam and Democracy Meet, page 114:
- It should be noted that cyberjihad is rarely a product of the Islamic diaspora: it is more often led by the initiative of activist groups within the Muslim countries.