A journalist who does not do his/her home work is a poor journalist

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Oct 3, 2007 at 07:25

Our dear lamia wrote:

Being a muslim journalist, I must say that the word "Jihad" has been misused by the militants. I am muslim and I believe that jihad means struggle which should be used for the eradification for poverty,

And you are wrong. The word Jihad means: holy war period. How come you Pakistanis do not get this much? Could it be because Islam is the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only (Q14:4) and you ain't no Arab?

jihad should be against illiteracy and against corruption. In islam, killing one person is considered killing many generations. So its wrong that jihad means killing innocent people.

Bogus again: the word jihad means holy war and the word ijtihad from the same root JHD means strive to improve and two very different words but they share the same root JHD. Now you can check the root JHD in a little chat that I had with another Paki

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

Now feel free to prove me wrong and why did you not do your homework and check the sources unless you are a poor journalist, so are you?

Its crystal clear that islam is a religion of peace. I am paksitan based journalist and whatever happening in pakistan in the name of jihad is wrong.

Then go and tell your ancestors the Hindus that were brutalized by Islam and Arabian imperialism such nonsense and they will think that you are out of your mind.

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