Jihad is Holy war and nothing else

Submitted by Jaladhi (United States), Mar 5, 2007 at 17:11

Dhimmi no more, you have abundantly made clear with the Arabic grammar that jihad only means "holy war" which is a war against non-muslims. Every Muslim is ever ready for jihad because its their holy duty which they cannot evade.

This is the only meaning that most Muslims are familiar with. Ask any Muslim on the street in any country, Pakistan, India, Afganistan, Saudi arabia, Indonesia etc, and see how many say it means internal struggle? You will find that they will uananimously say it means holy war. Thats the meaning they have lived with for last 1400 years.

It is obvious, the concept of "internal struggle" as the meaning of jihad has been put forward by Islamic apologists to elevate its status just like what Musims keep saying about Islam meaning peace which in reality means submission.

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