What does the qu'ran say.......

Submitted by Abdel hamid benslimane (Spain), Jan 25, 2005 at 07:44

I am a recent convert to islam (though i was born in a Muslim home ...it was first after 10 years living in Europe that i came to choose to believe in god after that my choice of religion couldn't be clearer after a small investigation) and i recently started reading qu'ran on more regular basis.

And I must say there is more than 200 ayat about jihad so my question is are you asking the muslims to change qu'ran? I don't think that will happen but to ask the authorities in islam to let no misinterpretention of it, is the better way to go.

For the jihad you are talking about is called jihad asghar (small jihad); the bigger jihad is within one'self and it tells you to be a better son, a better father, a better brother, a better husband, a better member of society and so on.

Now a minority of Muslims(generally they know very little about their own religion) interprets jihad as a war where anything goes. I think the message to those is to ask them about theire own religion -- what it permits and doesn't permit -- for I must say what I know of it says even in war you are not to harm children women not even trees.......so where do they get these ideas ?

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