Jihad is a "struggle within one self" it is NOT HOLY WAR!!!!!!!!!! But if u look it up in microsoft it will say that is IS war, but it is not!! Qital is Holy war...Jihad is like for example..a muslim woman wears a scarf and covers up in public, that is making Jihad..
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Right! Jihad, mistranslated in English, is not "Holy War."\nThe essence of Jihad is any type of struggle that one undergoes along the path to God. It could be, as you mentioned, a covered woman in public facing the judgemental stares of passers-by, or even the struggle within oneself to understand and obey God and His Message to his fullest potential. Waking oneself before dawn to pray is a prime example of Jihad, which many of us fail miserably.\nAlso, as you mentioned, the translation of "war" in Arabic is Qital, not Jihad. It is my opinion that the media uses Jihad for their own schemes and attempts at misleading the public. I won't go into that though. Moving on...\nThe "Jihad" that the media refers to today can't even be described as a Holy War in essence because it is not a war fought on religious bases, it is political. Even the Muslim extremists who coin it "Jihad" are only in deceit of themselves thinking that it is a war that could earn them martyrship, but to face their Creator and explain why they killed and mistreated innocents and ignored God's law will surely be a wake-up call for them.
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I think the Target is not well defined, this should be a war on Islam not a War on Terror. Many people will think its rediculus, but once apon a time we held a war on Mormonism. Change your religion or convert we said with guns. So they stoped marrying multiple thirteen year-old girls. we won
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Two words from two different languages that mean the same thing. This is why Bush was told to stop using it after we first went into Iraq. Because when he used 'crusade' it meant a holy/ religious war. His administration knew that the American ppl would not follow that at all so they stopped him from using it.\n\nBUT, now we have all seen the truth! We all now know that was the real reason. This Iraqi war has been a religious war from the beginning.
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Jihad in an islamic arabic meaning is fighting the evil.\nnow the there are many kinds of jihad,\nThe first and most important kind is self jihad ( jihad al nafs ) which means fighting the evil inside yourself, fighting your urge to disobey god, fighting your human nature to commit a sin.\n\nThe second type is fighting the evil that exists in life, such as crimes, abuse, any type of evil that exists in a normal everyday life. so you might as well call police officers jihadists, because they fight the evil in society.\n\nthe third type is fighting the evil that wants to kill or opress or wipe out the word of islam, and the word of god as a one and only force and creator., for example, like the war against crusades(which was actually war against islam and killing as many), The war on terrorism is actually jihad, because it kills the evil that impersonates islam, also war against those who hurt or abuse or try to distort any muslim or any islamic figure or holy character, i.e. god, muhammad.\n\nSo as you might have guessed, the word jihad has almost half its meaning in a Non Violent way, Jihad is what i do when i defend islam from rumors and fake information that are hate driven.\nJihad is when i make peace with anyone and let him understand what islam is truely about and who is allah and muhammad pbuh.\nJihad is loving your enemies, even if you know they plan something against you or hate you, because you are actually fighting the evil on them and destroying the evil in someone by just smiling in his face.\nJihad is what i am doing right now by answering your question and letting everybody know what the word jihad means, and that god is the most merciful, and that he is one and only.\n\nP.S. in this case you are not the evil, you are correcting the evil that already took place by stereotyping and hating and rumors, and i am taking part as well. so thank you because you are acutally doing jihad by correcting wrong information by asking this question, and i am doing it as well by answering with my knowledge that god blessed upon me.\n\npeace and blessings.\nmuslim.
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I think that when there are critcizing about religions, its a war the devil is loving. Don't do it stay faithful to your own and let people be their own. If there is some type of media doing this and your against it, boycott it. There is nothing else you can do.
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TRY TO THINK ONE THAT WASNT ABOUT RELIGION!! \n\nCountry Main religious groups involved Type of conflict \nAfghanistan Extreme, radical Fundamentalist Muslim terrorist groups & non-Muslims Osama bin Laden heads a terrorist group called Al Quada (The Source) whose headquarters were in Afghanistan. They were protected by, and integrated with, the Taliban dictatorship in the country. The Northern Alliance of rebel Afghans, Britain and the U.S. attacked the Taliban and Al Quada, establishing a new regime in part of the country. The fighting continues \nBosnia Serbian Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholic), Muslims Fragile peace is holding, due only to the presence of peacekeepers. 2 \nCôte d'Ivoire Muslims, Indigenous, Christian Following the elections in late 2000, government security forces "began targeting civilians solely and explicitly on the basis of their religion, ethnic group, or national origin. The overwhelming majority of victims come from the largely Muslim north of the country, or are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants..." 5 A military uprising continued the slaughter in 2002. \nCyprus Christians & Muslims The island is partitioned, creating enclaves for ethnic Greeks (Christians) and Turks (Muslims). A UN peace keeping force is maintaining stability. \nEast Timor Christians & Muslims A Roman Catholic country. About 20% of the  population died by murder, starvation or disease after they were forcibly annexed by Indonesia (mainly Muslim). After voting for independence, many Christians were exterminated or exiled by the Indonesian army and army-funded militias in a carefully planned program of genocide and religious cleansing. The situation is now stable. \nIndia Animists, Hindus, Muslims & Sikhs Various conflicts that heat up periodically producing loss of life.  \nIndonesia, province of Ambon Christians & Muslims After centuries of relative peace, conflicts between Christians and Muslims started during 1999-JUL in this province of Indonesia. The situation now appears to be stable. \nIndonesia, province of Halmahera  Christians & Muslims 30 people killed. 2,000 Christians driven out; homes and churches destroyed. \nIraq Kurds, Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims, western armed forces By mid-2006, a small scale civil war, primarily between Shiite and Sunni Muslims started. The situation appears to be steadily degenerating. \nKashmir Hindus & Muslims A chronically unstable region of the world, claimed by both Pakistan and India. The availability of nuclear weapons and the eagerness to use them are destabilizing the region further. More details Thirty to sixty thousand people have died since 1989. \nKosovo Serbian Orthodox Christians & Muslims Peace enforced by NATO peacekeepers. There is convincing evidence of past mass murder by Yugoslavian government (mainly Serbian Orthodox Christians) against ethnic Albanians (mostly Muslim) Full story \nKurdistan Christians, Muslims Assaults on Christians (Protestant, Chaldean Catholic, & Assyrian Orthodox). Bombing campaign underway. \nMacedonia Macedonian Orthodox Christians & Muslims Muslims (often referred to as ethnic Albanians) engaged in a civil war with the rest of the country who are primarily Macedonian Orthodox Christians. A peace treaty has been signed. Disarmament by NATO is complete. \nMiddle East Jews, Muslims, & Christians The peace process between Israel and Palestine suffered a complete breakdown. This has resulted in the deaths of thousands, in the ratio of three dead for each Jew.  Major strife broke out in 2000-SEP. Major battle in Lebanon during mid-2006. No resolution appears possible. \nNigeria Christians, Animists, & Muslims Yourubas and Christians in the south of the country are battling Muslims in the north. Country is struggling towards democracy after decades of Muslim military dictatorships. More details \nNorthern Ireland Protestants, Catholics After 3,600 killings and assassinations over 30 years, some progress has been made in the fo
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yes dear sister i am going through Jihad (inner struggle).\n\na true believer is constantly fighting evil.
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there is a passage in the bible of the ten commandments that says that you cannot kill anyone, but there is also something in christianity and other religions that are trying to classify this sorta thing as a "Just War", which means that it's acceptable based upon justifiable cause. it's like in Islam they have what is known as Jihad (which has a few different meanings) but is commonly known as a "holy war" and is allowed because it's a 'just war'. they feel that it is the right thing to do because of the severity.
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While the killing of any human being is deplorable and according to my religion one of the gravest sins (I am a Christian), attacking soldiers in an armed struggle is not terrorism. If the attack had been on a disco or a pizza restaurant, as the Palestinians have done before, then it would be terrorism. But attacking army posts, IMHO, in the context of armed conflict is not terrorism. It is however, an act of aggression and should be responded to by a similar attack i.e. not on civilians but on armed groups of Palestinian militants.\n\nBTW, if they kill the soldiers after they have captured them then that is a war crime and should be punished as such.
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Jihad is a struggle or a fight.  It ranges from an individual to a group of people.  An individual can experience Jihad- a struggle within themselves to overcome something, whether it be a physical or spiritual problem.  You can fight for the cause of Allah, but do not trangress limits (basically when the news reports Islamic Jihad, they are using the term wrong).
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From the little of reading of the q'uran that I have done I sometimes wonder if a lot of so called Muslims are illiterate or just follow their hostile leaders who tell them what to believe. Because I find that q'uran allows only self defense and only to the point of saving themselves or crops and any violence beyond that, ALLAH  ( I Hope that out of due respect that I have spelled Their Gods name correctly) will deal with harshly any Muslim that uses any force beyond that of which to stop the invasion of themselves or crops, their is nothing mentioned about suicide bombs or mass executions. Their God and our God are the same the big difference occurs remember in the bible when God promise Abraham and Sara a child and Sara was getting quite old so she suggested that he have sex with the slave girl.It is within that family that the Islam religion is born. And the Christian , Jewish religions descend from Abraham and Sara which is what God had promised many years earlier but God was not happy about Abraham and Sara losing faith in his promise to them and Sara was quite old by the time her son was born . And the term Holy war is a media buzzword to stir up trouble because basically holy war was meant to be a time when you are trying to get rid of sin in your life and you battle within yourself against the sin so that you can break away from it.
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No Islam isn't a religion that preaches AND teaches terrorism, it teaches and preaches peace and respect towards others. No religion would say to it's followers if you are being killed in your homes bow your heads and hand a weapon to the killer...\n\nIn the time of the Prophet Mohammad (Peace be Upon Him) prisoners of war were NOT to be killed... they were to be realesed under one condition... guess what that was? teach 10 muslims to read then they were set free...\n\nI could go on and on from my standpoint on this... what i suggest is you read SCHOLARLY articles or websites that are well known as religious sources about Islam from BOTH perspectives... \n\nA good site to learn about islam is www.Islamicity.com\n\nMuslims are NOT supposed to kill ANYONE at all... the only case that it is allowed is in the time of war to defend one's self... and even in that case there are restrictions... do not harm a tree, a home, a child, an elderly person if they do not harm you... fight only those that fight you directly...\n\nA lot of those that strap themselves with bombs to kill are seen as wrong in the view of many many muslims... especially when those killed are civilians...
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Holy wars are generally fueled by people who don't understand religion.  While they may genuinely believe that they are doing God's will or whatever, that believe does not come from the religion itself, but rather from political leaders who are either extremely confused or (more likely) are co-opting religion for their own agenda.\n\n______\nI disagree with kunwarrarra's statement that "killing in war is never murder."  Taking a life is never justified, no matter who tells you to do it.  Incidently, I have heard scholars of Islam argue that the religion does not allow killing, and that Jihad refers to an internal struggle rather than an external war.
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Jihad in arabic literally means struggle. In Islam, there are two types of jihad, lesser and greater jihad. The Prophet explained that the greater jihad is the internal struggle, the struggle to stay true to the path of Islam, doing the right thing, etc., while the lesser jihad is fighting in a war. This war can be justified for defensive means only, or for retribution if a group desecrated the holiness of Islam. It is compulsory for every abled, physically fit and matured Muslim men to fight in this Jihad. The lesser jihad has moral codes. One must not kill the enemy in any place of worship, such as churches, temples, synagogues, etc, one must not harm women or children who do not represent any threat in the Jihad and the army is allowed to capture prisoners of war and the leader can free the prisoners of war. Islam does not justify killing civillians in jihad. As a matter of fact, during the seige of Mecca, the army of Islam did not face any retaliation and the Muslim army did not cause any bloodshed. The Prophet himself forgave the Meccans; who previously insulted him, starved him and Muslims, exiled him and his family, killed Muslims, and attempted to assasinate him; and the Prophet let them free.\n\nThe jihad of Osama is not recognised by the majority of 1.2 billion Muslims, since he is neither a leader, a mujtaheed, nor an ulama (islamic scholar).
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Jihad : the concept of Holy War in Islam\n\nThe Quranic term 'Jihad' means, "Holy fighting in the Cause of Allah or any other kind of effort to make Allah's Word (i.e. Islam) superior. Jihad is regarded as one of the fundamentals of Islam." \n\nMuslims refer to a 'greater Jihah' (the personal struggle against sin), and a 'lesser Jihad' (holy warfare against the enemies of Allah and Islam). This distinction is often lost in the media, in part because some Muslims deliberately misrepresent the concept of Islam.\n\nFor Christians:\nMany Christians talk about a "Just War", but the Gospel of Jesus is the Gospel of Peace, there is no way in the New Testament to justify any bloody War... it is difficult to justify even the just, defensive war if one takes seriously the message of the Sermon on the Mount, which is the heart of the Gospel (Mat.5:28-42).\n\n    Jesus changed the whole attitude on warfare:\n    For a Christian, the answer to any war will be to "turn the other cheek"...To Peter, and to you and me, Jesus said: "Put your sword back in its place", because Jesus will bring the sword, Jesus will take care of you, because “vengeance is mine,” says the Lord (Mat.5:39, 26:52, Rom.12:19).\n\n    However, indeed there have been hundreds of wars made by Christians against Christians and against non-Christians... I am sure you are thinking about Ireland, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Crusades... the wars of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, England, USA... all Christian countries, and dozens more... and that's all wrong for Christians, even if it has been done for centuries!.\n\n    Actually, things are changing, even the Pope John Paul II is a pacifist at heart, an activist against war... with 137 documents against war just in the 3 months before the war of Iraq (January to March, 2003)... before the war, the Pope sent a cardinal to Washington to plead with President Bush not to attack, and another cardinal to Baghdad to press Saddam Hussein to cooperate completely with U.N. weapons inspectors.\n\nThis is what Jesus said and did:\n\n   In the Sermon of the Mount:\n    This Sermon, called the Constitution of Christianity, contains in Mat. 5 the "Law of Christ" of Gal.6:2. In it Jesus fulfilled the Law introducing several changes in Matthew 5:17-48.\n    One of them is about aggression, defense and war:\n   You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.'But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. (Mat.5:33-41).\n    No "eye for eye" in Christianity, but "turn the other cheek"... no revenge, no war... it is difficult to justify even the just, defensive war if one takes seriously the message of the Sermon on the Mount, which is the heart of the Gospel.\n   Just Love!... put the other cheek... he steals your tunic?, give him your cloak as well... it sounds incredible... impossible to follow... it is the Law of Christ, the Prince of Peace and of joy and of love... This is Christianity!.\n\n    At Gethsemane:\n   Jesus is telling us what he told Peter:\n    "Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear. Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?. But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?"... "But Jesus said, "No more of this!" And he touched his ear and healed him." (Mat.26:50-54, Lk.22:51)...\n   The
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This is not true, all the war in times of Prophet was for self defense that too after maximum restraint. Muslims even had to leave their town for safety to Medina when there was so much persecution of Muslims at Mecca. The first war in Islam occurred when the enemies followed them to Medina.\n\nSee what Quran says \n\n"Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly; surely Allah loves the doers of justice." Quran 60: 8 \n\n"There is no compulsion in religion"   Quran 2:256.  \n\n"Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it): " Quran 18: 29. \n\n"Nor can goodness and Evil be equal. Repel (Evil) with what is better: Then will he between whom and you was hatred become as it were your friend and intimate! " Quran 41: 34.
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i don't kniow which new islamic government you speak of , but no the muslums have always been mean and have a war going somplace. thats all they know how to do. they have to have jehad or a holly war going all time. just read the bible and look at the history books. now yopu call me racist if you like but i speak the truth and if you do not like this its just tuff.