`::: Sorry to be that guy, but, in point of fact, ``Holy War`` would be rendered in arabic as al-harb al-muqadasa (and not jihad) which, as Abou El Fadl eloquently explains, the Islamic theological tradition did not have a notion of ``Holy war`` which is not an expression used by the Quranic text or by Muslim theologians. He further states that in Islamic theology, war is never holy; it is either justified or not. (see his The Great Theft, p.222)  :::   `