Julia Duin gives us [1] a useful piece on Ramadan and violence in today's Washington Times.

In it, Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer explains: "Radicals see jihad not principally as an act of violence or an assertion of power ... but as a spiritual act, a holy cleansing of the world's impurities. In this view, if there is ever a time to fight Satan in all his various manifestations on Earth -- including Americans and Israelis -- it is Ramadan."