Jihad

Submitted by Anonymus (United Kingdom), Feb 15, 2009 at 07:49

There are two types of Jihad, lesser Jihad and Greater Jihad. Lets start of with Greater Jihad. Greater Jihad, is a struggle with oneself, for example battling with oneself to become perfect or gain enlightenment, whatever you would like to call it. This type of Jihad is the utlimate Jihad and is incomparable to the lesser Jihad. Lesser Jihad as Daniel Pipes stated is a struggle against evil. A couple of non-Muslims have been mentioning stuff like the Mumbai terrorists acted under the banner of Islam and Jihad tells them to blow themseleves up and hurt innocent civillians. I will paraphrase from the Quran, killing 1 person is the equivilent of killing the entire mankind. In reference to Geert Wilders, who recently was banned from entering the UK, he calls for freedom of speech yet wants to ban the Quran, he is being hypocritical.

I don't pretend to be a scholar of Islam but if you want the true meaning of Jihad go to the scholars and not a disgruntled and precieved version of the Islam by angry teenagers, like when researching Islam try to visit Islamic sites ...

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