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.
Por eso los miles de jóvenes musulmanes que emigraron a Afganistán durante los años 80 para luchar contra la ocupación soviética de un país islámico, en sus mentes, luchaban una yihad, hacían la yihad, y se nombraron a sí mismos los muyahidines, una palabra que proviene de la misma raíz que yihad.