If this is the definition of Jihad, it is evil

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Aug 4, 2012 at 00:04

Dear Dr Pipes:

Your reader Safwan from Pakistan says that Muslims should compulsorily resort to Jihad if 1) non-muslims attack a Muslim nation and 2) when muslims are persecuted in non-muslim countries.

I hope this this definition is not true because it is evil. It is evil for at least 100 reasons and I will cite a few:

1) It does not mention that Muslims should be just as concerned about the safety and welfare of non-muslims as they are of muslims.

2) It does not mention that just being Muslim is not enough. You ought to be right too. So if non-muslims attack a rogue muslim nation, no JIhad is necessary.

3) It does not mention that war is not necessarily the best solution. It does not suggest that Muslims should first try non-violence before resorting to violence.

) It does not give the individual a choice. It mandates that when one Muslim is attacked all Muslims should resort to Jihad.

Does Safwan also wish that there was a Christian version of Jihad so all Christian nations of the world could pile on Turkey when it was killing Arminians? Or Safwan wishes that President Clinton should have left Bosnian Muslims at their own plight because attacking christian Slobodan Milosevic to defend Muslim Bosnians would be against the Christian Jihad. Or Safwan wishes that when Pakistani's killed Daniel Pearl, all Jews of the world should resort to a Jewish Jihad and give a nice treatment to Pakistanis.

But then, dear readers, when it comes to reciprocal ethics, hypocrisy is the name of the game among Muslims.

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