Often, many people conflate the terms jihad and terrorism. This is in part because many writers use the term "jihadist" when describing violent Muslim radicals.
To be sure, such radicals have invoked jihad to justify their heinous acts, such as the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and more recent Islamic State group (also known as ISIS) operations. But these acts have been strongly condemned by numerous Muslim clerics and scholars on Islamic grounds.
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