As you said, this campaign is a holy war in name alone.

And still this is almost like a holy war to some people now.

They, too, now had hope of something other than continued holy war.

Well, this is supposed to be a holy war on us.

Then they turn it into a holy war, page one and all.

A holy war, in every highest sense of the term.

Well, it's supposed to be a holy war on us.

They called for a holy war to set up an Islamic state by force, he added.

What was one death, more or less, when holy war had been declared?

However it was as much a "holy war" from the Culture's point of view.