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.”
CAIR SPOKESWHORE: "Jihad means one's own INNER
struggle. You are purposely misrepresenting the teachings of Islam!"
ANYONE WITH EYES TO SEE: "Well, when someone breaks out with a case of SJS, it looks
more like an OUTER
conflict against random third parties." ROPMA