jihad is for liberation

Submitted by saif (United Kingdom), Aug 20, 2005 at 11:14

i am quite surprised that the ppl of west europe and US are not even embarased when citicising islam and jihad. did they forget jihad in afghanistan which protected them from the evil communist and believe me it was the resistance of these so called extremists who physically came to afghanistan to join their muslim brothers and sisters in jihad and left the lifestyle of royalty in their own arab countries so its wrong to say that those muslims who take arms to defend their faith are poor ppl and have no objectives in life.no matter how poor a muslim might be financially he/she is always rich with faith and has better objectives than average middleclass westener (non muslim).

To say that it was the US that funded the afghan jihad we muslims can say only with regards to that 'maybe they did or didnt'. If they did it was for their own benefit, but more than 60% of the aid came from these muslims who not only funded the mujahideen but physically joined them. these ppl were none other than ppl like bin ladin, al zawahiri or abdullah azzam.

So we muslims are proud of our history of jihad because our jihad has proved to be beneficial not only for the muslims but non muslims too. we muslims shed our blood and the blood of the superior communist army for ten yrs but provided the world with a long lasting peace and liberation.taking in to account the struggle (jihad) of the muslims we deserve appreciation not critcism.

allahu akbar (allah is the greatest)

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