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An abbreviation for "Sudden Jihad Syndrome." SJS is the tendency among supposedly Westernized Muslims living in the [United States] to unexpectedly lash out violently in an act of self-initiated (and usually small scale) Islamic terrorism. Examples include Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar who drove his SUV into a crowd at the [University of North Carolina] in 2006, Naveed Alzal Haq who shot people at a Jewish Federation Center in Seattle also in 2006, Hesham Mohammed Hadayet who murdered people at the El Al terminal in the Los Angeles Airport in 2002 — among many others. In all of these instances, the perpetrators had no known direct connection to any established group, and [because of this] the authorities inevitably refrain from describing their actions as “terrorism” — hence the sarcastic term “Sudden Jihad Syndrome.”
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