To Wayne

Submitted by Rizwan (United Arab Emirates), Sep 6, 2006 at 01:28

"In the name of Allah (God), most Gracious, most Compassionate"

Quran's Teaching about Jihad are definitely strong and upended just like the National Security of USA. If a threat exists in the most remote corner of the world The US Government will go their and crush the THREAT regardless of whether it may be an Eskimo with no food to eat threatening to fight with the American Army equipped with the world's most latest ammunitions. So why Muslims who were little in number (in the begining) (and remember here they did not became the majority by killing all other people as they were only little over 300 in numbers in the beginning) can go soft on the threat on their lives by an army of tipple their size and highly equipped soldiers.

You mentioned the NEW definition of JIHAD. Well the definition as you mentioned is new and certainly is an opinion of an individual just like Serial killers in the USA who kill for fun, so you can not portray a picture of Islam through the opinion of an individual.

As mentioned earlier the text that you take from the Quran is just partial while to understand the context you need to read the whole chapter. If some one says "If you try to kill me with that knife, I will shoot you" and you say to every one that he said that he is going to "shoot you".

About spreading Islam (Peace) it is said to make every possible effort and means but not by brutal killing the best example was that In Medina their were many Jews who lived their but they were not attacked or forced to accept Islam even though they attacked the Prophet many times in a cowardly manner.

So I recommend to all that want to understand the following Ayas go through the circumstances these Ayats came and also to read the whole chapter.

And by the way as Muslims we have to believe in Christ to be the Prophet fo Allah because if we don't we will not be a Muslim.

As far as bible is concerned the transcripts of Bible were changed and were written by the person who even at the time of Christ did not accept his teachings. He made it so that people will become very afraid to fight and so can be controlled by Jews.

I recommend that you should check your history correctly.

Thanks for reading

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