I disagree

Reader comment on item: What is Jihad?

Submitted by Adam (United States), Apr 6, 2009 at 16:35

To preface, I am a Christian and am firm in my belief.

I believe you are misinforming the public by taking the radicals within the religion of Islam and claiming that they are, in a sense, a definition for their religion. There are radical members of my own faith that would greatly do damage to my religion if the entire world thought that we were all like them. In short, you can't judge a religion by its members, you can only judge it by its doctrine.

P.S. The true definition of Jihad is to struggle to do the will of Allah (who happens to be ACCORDING TO MUSLIM FAITH the God of Abraham and Moses).

I am taking a world religions class in college. It's amazing what you will find out when you study rather than speculate and judge.

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Daniel Pipes replies:

For a rebuttal to your simple ideas, see Raymond Ibrahim, "Conflating History with Theology: Judeo-Christian Violence vs. Islamic Violence."