Yes because this is a different age. Earlier, there was very less communication between different regions. The religion of the king or the village head used to be your religion. Anyone who dissented were punished. Now everyone has access to information and everyone can discuss any topic freely. That's the reason why Iranians and Kurds are leaving Islam. Because they know now that it's all hogwash.
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the names of many militant groups included the word "jihad":
The International Islamic Front for the Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders: (Osama bin Laden's 1998 fatwa),
Laskar Jihad of Indonesia,
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement,
Egyptian Islamic Jihad,
Yemeni Islamic Jihad.
Some conflicts fought as jihad since the 1980s include:
Rohingya mujahideen insurgency (1947–1961)
Soviet–Afghan War and Afghan Civil War (Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen, 1979–1992)
Iran–Iraq War (1980–88, considered a jihad by the Islamic Republic of Iran)[189]
Kashmir conflict (Lashkar-e-Taiba, 1990–present)
Algerian Civil War (1991–2002)
Somali Civil War (Al-Shabaab, 1991–present)
Internal conflict in Bangladesh (1991–present)
Moro conflict (Abu Sayyaf, 1991–present)
Bosnian war (Bosnian mujahideen, 1992–95)
Afghan civil war (Taliban, 1994–present)
Insurgency in Northeast India (MULTA, 1996)
Xinjiang conflict (East Turkestan Islamic Movement, 1997–present)
Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, 1998–present)
Chechen war and Insurgency in the North Caucasus (Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya, 1994–present)
Nigerian Sharia conflict (Boko Haram, 2001–present)
Insurgency in the Maghreb (al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, 2002–present)
Iraqi insurgency (Islamic State of Iraq, 2003–present)
South Thailand insurgency (2004–present)
War in North-West Pakistan (2004–present)
Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency (Jundallah, 2004–present)
Insurgency in Balochistan (Jundallah, 2004–present)
Gaza–Israel conflict (2006–present)
Northern Mali conflict (2011–present)
Syrian civil war (Al-Nusra Front, 2011–present)
Factional violence in Libya and Libyan Civil War (Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries, 2011–present)
Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon (2011–present)
Insurgency in Egypt and Sinai insurgency (2011–present)
Wave of Terror in Europe (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, 2014–present)
Conflict in Najran, Jizan and Asir (2015–present)
ISIL insurgency in Tunisia (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, 2015–present)
Fred Donner states that, whether the Quran only sanctions defensive warfare or whether it commands the waging of an all-out war against non-Muslims depends on the interpretation of the relevant passages.[183] According to Albrecht Noch, the Qur'an does not explicitly state the aims of the war which Muslims are obliged to wage; rather the passages concerning jihad aim to promote fighters for the Islamic cause and they do not discuss military ethics.[1
(They don't not care about military ethics if they want to rape someone's sisters they will do it.
If they want to kill some 3yo kid they will do it.
We all are chilling because we are provided to live with that atmosphere.)
definition, terrorist acts committed by Muslim groups or individuals who profess Islamic or Islamist motivations or goals. Islamic terrorists have relied on particular interpretations of the tenets of the Quran and the Hadith, citing these scriptures to justify violent tactics including mass murder, genocide, child-molestation and slavery.[3