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- Does Jihad Mean "inner Struggle?"
Bill Warner, at Political Islam, is doing some interesting and original work. He simply counts up the statistics in Islamic doctrine to arrive at useful, insightful, illuminating facts. For example, 61 percent of the Koran is about non-believers. That's...
- Storm Track Infiltration: Using Kafir Women For Islamic Domination
There is a well thought out plan created by the Islamo-fascists, or Islamists, to advance political Islam. That plan is being executed today and whose goal is the recreation of the Islamic Empire, re-establishing the Caliphate, and imposing Sharia law...
- California School Textbook: Jihad Is Good
From Yid With Lid: A history textbook used in Sacramento and other schools in California teaches that Jihad is a good thing, it only means doing good works for God. Gee I never thought of putting Jihad and walking an old lady across the street in the...
- Storm Track Infiltration: Criminal Jihad Progressing Nicely
What’s one of the best places to recruit future terrorists in the West? Your best bet is to go those who are already resentful of their own country – prison inmates. This knowledge does not go unheeded by the Jihadists. There has been a concerted...
- Truth Aversion Works Best
“Most modern branches of Islam, however, stress the inner, spiritual jihad.” Source: Microsoft Encarta Encylopedia 2007 No empirical or any evidence at all cited for this statement. No statistics? No survey of Islamic scholars? Why not? This statement...
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The Meaning Of The Word "Jihad"
There are multiple meanings to the word Jihad. Truth is, it can mean a moral struggle to become a better person. But, it can also mean, your ass is dead, infidel.
How do we tell the difference? Punditarian has a great article up over at Astute Bloggers. Here is an excerpt.
Years before the September Eleventh Atrocities, in 1997, Douglas Streusand published an article discussing the meaning of the word "jihad." It is well worth reading in its entirety. He concludes:
Go read the whole thing.
How do we tell the difference? Punditarian has a great article up over at Astute Bloggers. Here is an excerpt.
Years before the September Eleventh Atrocities, in 1997, Douglas Streusand published an article discussing the meaning of the word "jihad." It is well worth reading in its entirety. He concludes:
Muslims today can mean many things by jihad-the jurists' warfare bounded by
specific conditions, Ibn Taymiya's revolt against an impious ruler, the Sufi's
moral self-improvement, or the modernist's notion of political and social
reform. The disagreement among Muslims over the interpretation of jihad is
genuine and deeply rooted in the diversity of Islamic thought.
The unmistakable predominance of jihad as warfare in Shari'a writing does
not mean that Muslims today must view jihad as the jurists did a millenium ago.
Classical texts speak only to, not for, contemporary Muslims. A non-Muslim
cannot assert that jihad always means violence or that all Muslims believe in
jihad as warfare.
Conversely, the discord over the meaning of jihad permits deliberate
deception, such as the CAIR statement cited above. A Muslim can honestly dismiss
jihad as warfare, but he cannot deny the existence of this concept. As the
editor of the "Diary of a Mujahid" writes, "some deny it, while others explain
it away, yet others frown on it to hide their own weakness."
The term jihad should cause little confusion, for context almost always
indicates what a speaker intends. The variant interpretations are so deeply
embedded in Islamic intellectual traditions that the usage of jihad is unlikely
to be ambiguous. An advocate of jihad as warfare indicates so through his goals.
A Sufi uses the term mujahada or specifies the greater jihad. Bourguiba clearly
did not advocate violence to improve education and development in Tunisia.
When ambiguity does exist, it may well be deliberate. In the case of
Arafat's statement about a "jihad for Jerusalem," he intended his Muslim
audience to hear a call to arms while falling back on the peaceful definition to
allay concerns in Israel and the West. Only his later actions reveal whether he
was co-opting Islamists by adopting their rhetoric or duping Israelis by hiding
his violent intentions.
Go read the whole thing.
- Does Jihad Mean "inner Struggle?"
Bill Warner, at Political Islam, is doing some interesting and original work. He simply counts up the statistics in Islamic doctrine to arrive at useful, insightful, illuminating facts. For example, 61 percent of the Koran is about non-believers. That's...
- Storm Track Infiltration: Using Kafir Women For Islamic Domination
There is a well thought out plan created by the Islamo-fascists, or Islamists, to advance political Islam. That plan is being executed today and whose goal is the recreation of the Islamic Empire, re-establishing the Caliphate, and imposing Sharia law...
- California School Textbook: Jihad Is Good
From Yid With Lid: A history textbook used in Sacramento and other schools in California teaches that Jihad is a good thing, it only means doing good works for God. Gee I never thought of putting Jihad and walking an old lady across the street in the...
- Storm Track Infiltration: Criminal Jihad Progressing Nicely
What’s one of the best places to recruit future terrorists in the West? Your best bet is to go those who are already resentful of their own country – prison inmates. This knowledge does not go unheeded by the Jihadists. There has been a concerted...
- Truth Aversion Works Best
“Most modern branches of Islam, however, stress the inner, spiritual jihad.” Source: Microsoft Encarta Encylopedia 2007 No empirical or any evidence at all cited for this statement. No statistics? No survey of Islamic scholars? Why not? This statement...