Jihad Reconsidered

Hizbullah’s Jihad Concept

This paper argues that Hizbullah’s jihad concept essentially derives from the underprivileged status of the Lebanese Shiite community at the time of the appearance of the party in the early 1980s. Although the ideology of Hizbullah and the articulation of its jihad concept borrowed heavily from ayatollah Khomeini’s doctrinal contributions to Shiism, Hizbullah has readily adapted itself to the n...

Jihad vs . McWorld

Just beyond the horizon of current events lie two possible political figures—both bleak, neither democratic. The first is a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed: a threatened Lebanonization of national states in which culture is pitted against culture, people against people, tribe against tribe—a Jihad in the name of a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against every...

Multicollinearity Reconsidered

In this paper we intend to improve the explanatory power of regressions when the deletion method is used for the remedy of Multicolinearity. If one deletes the variable (s) that is (are) responsible for Multicolinearity, he loses some information that is not common between the deleted variable (s) and the other remaining variables in the regression. To improve this method, we run the deleted va...

Reportrapport Declarative Interpretations Reconsidered Declarative Interpretations Reconsidered

Three semantics have been proposed as the most promising candidates for a declarative interpretation for logic programs and pure Prolog programs: the least Herbrand model, the least term model, i.e. the C-semantics, and the S-semantics. Previous results show that a strictly increasing information ordering between these semantics exists for the class of all programs. In particular, the S-semanti...

Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad