Jihadists Against Us

Jihad is an Arabic term I guess. It might mean "Holy War", but I'm not really sure. It could mean whatever the latest "important" cleric might think it should mean. There are a bunch of these cleric types around and about, spouting what they think is the "Word of the Prophet". I guess there was never an Arab Samuel Johnson to define their words with any kind of finality. Too bad about that. I could use some clear definitions right about now.

An Associated Press article entitled "Saudi Religious Scholars Support Holy War" goes into how twenty-six Saudi scholars and "preachers" support jihad in Iraq. However,

The scholars were careful to direct their appeal to Iraqis only and stayed away from issuing a general, Muslim-wide call for holy war. They also identified the military as the target, one that is considered legitimate by many Arabs who view U.S. troops and their allies as occupiers.

Interesting. We're the infidel occupiers. Interlopers. Shouldn't we be stealing their oil?

The clerics' appeal came as U.S. troops, backed by air and artillery power and Iraqi security forces, were gearing up for a major assault on Fallujah.
The clerics issued a fatwa, or religious edict, prohibiting Iraqis from offering any support for military operations carried out by U.S. forces against insurgent strongholds.

(Emphasis added) So I guess it might be safe to assume that the many thousand strong, all volunteer "Iraqi security forces" have recently become Presbyterians. That, or they'll refuse to fight the fellow Muslim "insurgents", or the "clerics" aren't being taken seriously. It would seem to have to be one of those choices. But the term "Holy War"? The concept of "prohibiting Iraqis from offering any support" seems more like a "Holy Sit Down Strike". I wonder... what would the word for that be?