Mainstream political usage has severed the word jihad from its Arabic meaning

Evidence

“Jihad” means “struggle” in Arabic; it also means “striving.” But in mainstream political parlance, the word has become tightly connected to terrorism, and thus far removed from its recognized formal denotations. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1262

Categorization

• DEFINE: Notes that the religious term’s semantic distortion is itself a mechanism states exploit to justify securitized policy.
• ADDENDUM: The instrumental distortion of a term’s true meaning parallels how ‘immodesty’ complaints in the dress-panics article distort underlying cultural practices.