Jihad, and Islam's Policy towards Abrahamic Faiths.

Submitted by A muslim (Indonesia), Dec 13, 2007 at 22:15

One must understand, the acts such as those displayed in 9/11 does not fall under Jihad.

For Jihad calls for a defense of one's self, family, a fellow Muslim...literature also, but forced conversion is not, neither is a blood bath of non-muslims.

In fact, a caliph state, or a Muslim state is never mentioned in the Hadiths or the Quran, and is in fact, a hope by many uneducated and mostly poorer citizens, and this what their Jihad is for, an Islamic State, not Allah.

Now, with Islam's 'policy' towards Christians and Jews, this is one that is quite unique to Islam, for it being specific to a certain group of other faiths.

Somewhere in the Quran, it is mentioned how the Christians are respectable and that it is required that a certain respect be given to them.

In fact, when Muhammad was running from Mecca, was it not the Christian king of the kingdom of (I have forgotten the name of the nation, but I believe it was Abyssinia?) that safeguarded him against those that wish to kill him?

And during the age that Muhammad was defending Mecca or Medinah, was it not the Jewish tribe that allied with him, to defend against the Kaliphs who were trying to kill the Muslims?

Of course, the jewish tribe then betrayed them, and were executed, HOWEVER, they were executed not based on Islamic Laws, however, many argued that since the jews were jews, they should be treated upon by their owns laws.

So you see, those that kill Christians or Jews because they're not Muslims are not really Muslims themselves.

I mean, look, they haven't even read the Quran.

Forgive my lack of historical accuracy with places and passages in the Quran, but I'm only 14, and I've only read them a few times through the english translation of the Quran (yes, I don't speak arabic, although I do know how to read it)

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