The term jihad has not always been commonly recognized in the United States. It was only in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 that the word jihad became widely known. Since the terrorist attacks, the media and the U.S. government have used the word jihad to conjure frightening images of non-Americans coming to destroy American freedoms and define Islam. Today scholars have begun trying to define this complex word and its multitude of meanings. When viewers tune in to the news, it is sometimes difficult to unravel the layers of information fed to them by the media and the U.S. government. In its most literal form, the term “jihad is an Arabic term meaning, as a noun, 'struggle' or, as a verb, 'exerting effort' towards a goal” (International Ency 1). However, in Mary Pat Fisher's book Living Religions, the chapter on Islam discusses how the definition of the term jihad is “commonly mistranslated as 'holy war' (Fisher 148). While the media often portrays jihad as consistent with the idea of ​​“struggle,” the media almost always turns the definition on its head by suggesting that this struggle is a harmful struggle between two groups of people, each of whom believes in righteousness, and in many cases In these cases God is on their side and evil is on the other side. Suggesting that jihad and violence are connected has been established since pre-modern times. Indeed, Fisher suggests that the main associations of the word jihad are religious, particularly with reference to the prophet Muhammad and the religion of Islam, but also invoke a sense of violence or resistance against an opposing force. Although we usually talk about violence and jihad together, in recent times, in half the newspapers, a lot of nonsense has been written on the topic of jihad, both by Muslims and by jihadists. have intentionally sought to uphold a specific type of definition of jihad and by academics who seek to define Islam and Islamism. The term jihad is said to derive from the Arabic verbal root jahada, meaning “to strive,” “to strive,” or “to strive,” especially in the path of God. Although the Quran makes a distinction between the Great Jihad, which is a struggle against non-believers, and the Small Jihad, a fight against ----, many argue that there are also several distinct categories of jihad that take these definitions one step further. Although there are multiple meanings for the word jihad, the fact remains that in all definitions the term normally refers to an armed struggle against an opposing force. In any case, despite