The truth about jihad - Moderate Muslim wrong again!

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Feb 26, 2007 at 21:23

Moderate Muslim, as always, you are wrong about jihad. You wrote:

"IT CAN MEAN HOLY WAR< BUT MOST OFTEN IT MEANS A STRUGGLE WITHIN ONE'S SELF."

Really? If that's the case, why then are so few Muslims struggling to reform their religion? If thats the case, why then is jihad synonymous with war (in perception as well as practice)? If that's the case, why then is Islam engaged in a war-like interpretation of jihad all over the world?

Seems to me that if the true definition of jihad was "a struggle within one's own self", we'd see Islam as an introspective, meditative religion akin to Buddhism. Instead, Islam is a war-like, violent, dominance-driven faith, i.e. jihad as "holy war" to advance Islam.

But as is typical of a Muslim, you make claims about your... cult that does not agree with the reality of the world around us. I won't even get into the verses for jihad in the Koran, I'll leave that for Dhimmi No More to handle.

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