Srebrenica Massacre, have you forgotten?

Submitted by Mo (United Kingdom), Jan 16, 2007 at 01:48

You see, Jihad does not mean holy war per se , if you know your Arabic, then you would be familiar with the two meanings that most Arabic words have, linguistic and Shar'i (meaning shariah / political). Jihad in its linguistic meaning is attributed to inner purification, the struggling with ones self to better and make him/her free from worldly desires, in one word the linguistics meaning for "Jihad" is "struggling," that is why the common word for struggle in the Arabic language is "Jihad" just like it is common for us in English to use "Struggle" If you get my drift. The Shar'i or political meaning for "Jihad" means fighting for God and putting Gods name higher than all others, which can mean defending land from occupation / corruption.

You see you made an obvious error when quoting "Qatilo" because although the political meaning for jihad and Qatil is somehow interconnected, it is not the same. Qatil means fighting in Arabic. The quote/verse that you mention actually means "fight for the sake of Allah" You see the word "Jihad" does not come in here. And you are wrong; I know enough Arabic thank you very much.

You reference to "futuh al Islam." The Muslims invaded lands as it was an order set by God and his Messenger (p) to change the political structure of lands.

You make mention of specific place where you say terrorism took place. I cannot make excuses for the Turks, but I will say killing innocent people in Islam is Haram, and is not allowed, if you read the Qur'an you will not find any references for killing non-combatants (civilians), in fact the Messenger (p) categorically made clear that no women and children shall ever be harmed. And that was made clear throughout history.

You make mention about terrorising the "Christian families" in the Balkans. Please be fair, the conflict in the Balkans was not started by the Muslims, but was a doing of the Serbs or some fringe minority who had a political conspiracy against the Muslims, who then found great support by their people.

You say why the Muslims terrorised the Christians; maybe you should ask them why? I should have know that most of the 600 + mosques in the Balkan region were destroyed by your Christian friends while non of their churches were even touched, our brothers and sisters were killed and murdered by their thousands, why not look into the Srebrenica Massacre, where 8,300 Muslim males were killed just because of their religion, that was just one place and setting, killings were rampant throughout the Balkans.

Then you had the Mujahideens who heard the call of their brothers and sisters in the region, they went there to take on the army of the Serbs, and defend their people, because the Europeans were late in their response for deployment of troops to keep the peace, were the Mujahideens then called terrorist? Were the killings in Balkans done by the Muslims alone?

You say why I don't go back to Pakistan, I'm actually from Bangladesh, and yes I won't mind going back to any of our lands, but until you get our of our land, taking your noses with you, then maybe we can go back and live in peace. But until then, you'll see more of us here in the west.

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