What's the difference between ghazwa and razzia?

Ghazwa


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  • (1) Pro-Isis Twitter accounts hailed the attack as “ghazwat Tunis” or the “raid of Tunis” (ghazwa is the description given to the early Islamic battles) and have cheered on the attackers.
  • (2) Pro-Isis Twitter accounts hailed the attack as “ ghazwat Tunis” or the “raid of Tunis” ( ghazwa is the description given to the early Islamic battles) and have cheered on the attackers.
  • (3) The precise affiliation of Wednesday’s attackers was unclear, but Twitter users employed language from the Isis lexicon such as the Arabic word ghazwa , a reference to armed raids in the early Islamic era.

Razzia


Definition:

  • (n.) A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.

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