Divine warrior
As jihadist people are called, wars or armed force generally advocate to the influence of their religious expand, consolidate or defend. The word was used as a synonym for mujahideen in many German-language media during the Afghan civil war . In the wake of the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001 , it came back into use; now with a negative connotation for the Islamist motivated perpetrators. The Duden, which took up the term in 2004, defines God's warrior as "someone who commits warlike, terrorist acts in order to pursue religious, mostly Islamist goals, and who, according to his belief, is rewarded in the afterlife".
It was voted the German unword of 2001. The jury of the Society for German Language justified its decision with the fact that "no belief in a God of any religion [...] could justify a war or even terrorist attacks". According to the jury, the name should have been taboo for the fighters of the Afghan Taliban or the Al-Qaida terror network and reveal that there is a lack of critical distance from pseudo-religious claims. The other places were followed by “ crusade ” for the US counter-attacks after the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the term “top terrorist”, which was “extremely trivializing” for the al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden , who was wanted at the time .
literature
- Alice Schwarzer et al .: The warriors of God and false tolerance . Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2002, ISBN 978-3-462-03105-8
- Rolf Clement, Paul Elmar Jöris : The terrorists next door: God's warriors from Germany. With an afterword by Volker Perthes . Piper Verlag 2010. ISBN 978-3-492-05399-0
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gotteskrieger in duden.de, accessed on January 30, 2012
- ^ "Gotteskrieger" is the bad word of the year , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 22, 2002