About our dear Hassan and the word Jihad

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Oct 3, 2007 at 07:09

Our dear Hassan wrote this jawhara saghira

Wait, define Jihad based on the actions of a ruthless dictator who doesn't know squat about Islam himself... Jihad is the arabic word meaning "struggle"...

One word: Bogus. The word Jihad means holy war except in the minds of those that are either liars, ignorant or plain wannabe Arabs but still pontificate about a language that they do not lnow and in this case it is the Arabic language!

A Jihad could apply to a jihad of the heart which is a struggle over good and evil in the mind,

Bogus: This is Ijtihad and not jihad. You must pardon me but you are ignorant

a jihad of the tongue which applys to a struggle over evil waged by writing and speech, A Jihad over oppression,

Bogus again and the word here is ijtihad

which is the where all the negative stereotypes related to jihad come from. It is stated that should someone want to kill you because of your religion, you as a muslim have the right to kill them... thats Jihad...

Holy war! that is what the word Jihad really means. Now you can check my following post about the word Jihad and the root JHD in a little chat that I had with another wannabe Arab like you

http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/88866

Now feel free to prove me wrong and oh I suggest that you stick to Urdu and like I say: shame on you for defending Arabian imperialism.

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