Jihad is always holy war

Submitted by stranchan (Ukraine), May 17, 2012 at 16:34

It is comic to try to decipher the hoops these Jihadi justifiers go through to rationalize the need for Jihad. They will first swear that Jihad only means to strive, to be a better person, to do Allah's bidding. Then when you raise the point that there are two kinds of jihad, the pen and the sword, they will counter with the claim that jihad of the sword is not allowed unless it is in defense of Islam, to defend fellow Muslims who are in danger or being persecuted. Peel another layer off and you come to understand that what they consider defensive jihad is just about anything that has been interpreted in any way to be offensive to Islam or was land that was at any time occupied by Muslims. So this is how they are able to escape the wildly illogical arguments.

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