Defensive
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But, since 2008, al-Shabaab’s top leaders have mutated into hyper-violent ultra-extremists whose actions appear to have nothing to do with Islam or
defensive
jihad and everything to do with raw survivalism.
More example sentences with word defensive
So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.
And so, they're joining China, whose doctrine of use for 15 years has been both
defensive
and offensive.
So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the
defensive.
A lot of the time, when there's initial contact, if one of them is too much on the
defensive
side, the second one will sort of poke at it, grab at its tentacle and see, "Hey, do you want to fight me, do you want to turn around?
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