muslim perspective about "jihad" meaning seems a little sketchy

Submitted by Bushhouse68 (United States), Dec 19, 2005 at 16:14

after looking through a couple of articles by traqi and daniel I find it quite funny that they can't agree on the meaning of Jihad. in one place I get struggle in another i get the use of power or force to advance the desires of allah. There were even more answers out there. What I want to know is that why can't muslims agree on the meaning of this term? is all of it a denial? is it all out of fear that maybe they have been wrong this whole time?

i myself agree with Mr.X in saying that the only true muslime it seems are those who are following this violent solution to reaching a pointless goal. it doesn't matter that you could have the largest religion in the world. How many of the "followers" actually would follow if there wasn't that element of fear there.

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