| Home | Articles | Blog | Reviews | Spoken | Books | Biographical | Middle East Forum | About this site | Mailing List |
Jihad means WAR!
Reader comment on item: The Pentagon Looks at the Koran
in response to reader comment: For "dhimmi no more" , the madrassa man.
Submitted by Henrik Ræder Clausen (Denmark), Oct 16, 2006 at 03:28
Hi
Rather than go back and forth in endless interpretations of various Arab words, I suggest you read the Sira (Sirat Rasul Allah, The Life of Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq).
In this book you will find that by the clear example of Muhammad, 'Jihad' means war. Fully armed, relentless and endless war against all unbelievers, armed or not, with the intention of taking plunder (Quran 8:39) and subduing them (Quran 9:29).
That's it. Arabian grammar be damned.
Dislike
Submitting....
Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".
<< Previous Comment Next Comment >>
Reader comments (113) on this item
 |
 |
Title | Commenter | Date | Thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Making Pentagon's task easier [175 words] | B.N.Gururaj | Feb 28, 2009 09:52 | 151341 | |
| 1 | lawful Islam -the real danger [147 words] | Radovan | Jun 17, 2007 22:36 | 98933 | |
| 1 |  true islam. [80 words] | muslim | Mar 11, 2009 17:22 | 98933 | |
| 1 | True Islam?? [140 words] | Kevin | Oct 1, 2009 17:02 | 98933 | |
| 1 | Bogus war on terror [202 words] | john | Dec 26, 2006 09:18 | 70587 | |
| 1 | Pentagon is waking up to the reality, but... [1129 words] | Mohan | Nov 1, 2006 11:54 | 64998 | |
| Can Islam be reformed? [88 words] | Jon Purizhansky | Nov 8, 2006 19:25 | 64998 | ||
| Bravo Mohan!!!! [308 words] | Betty | Nov 26, 2006 18:39 | 64998 | ||
| 1 | War on Islam has to be of Ideas [254 words] | B.N.Gururaj | Mar 2, 2009 22:37 | 64998 | |
| 1 | Islam the motivation of terrorism (The quran, the hadith, and the sunnah) [69 words] | Kelvan Kam | Oct 24, 2006 18:52 | 64393 | |
| a pointless debate [67 words] | yahecurb | Oct 24, 2006 10:22 | 64332 | ||
| It makes all of the difference [158 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 28, 2006 03:51 | 64332 | ||
| Only 5 Years? [32 words] | Edwin F. Buckley | Oct 16, 2006 16:55 | 60586 | ||
| WRONG END OF THE HORSE [143 words] | DONVAN | Oct 13, 2006 15:40 | 60253 | ||
| Yeah with many Ulema giving you different intepretation islam will never "wind up" with the facts [96 words] | Kelvan Kam | Oct 14, 2006 03:30 | 60253 | ||
| excellent point... [96 words] | donvan | Oct 16, 2006 09:18 | 60253 | ||
| They may actually get it one of these days [174 words] | Peter Herz | Oct 12, 2006 17:15 | 60047 | ||
| 1 | Satanic verses are Ibn Ishaq page 161 ff [332 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 12, 2006 18:47 | 60047 | |
| Will the Pentagon also take on the United States Supreme Court? [211 words] | Akbar | Oct 10, 2006 15:35 | 59630 | ||
| Is not unconstitutional to remove the image of Muhammad. [125 words] | Kelvan Kam | Oct 11, 2006 00:15 | 59630 | ||
| Good point Akbar,almost [99 words] | donvan | Oct 18, 2006 17:27 | 59630 | ||
| Crusades should be relaunched [34 words] | jack hawkins | Oct 8, 2006 11:29 | 59299 | ||
| The Crusades continue! [269 words] | Akbar | Oct 6, 2006 11:09 | 59129 | ||
| Koran [268 words] | Rama | Oct 8, 2006 07:53 | 59129 | ||
| Resuming the Crusades? [109 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 9, 2006 15:47 | 59129 | ||
| No to Turkey in the European Union [45 words] | Octavio Johanson | Oct 9, 2006 17:08 | 59129 | ||
| Resuming the Crusades [90 words] | akbar | Oct 9, 2006 19:00 | 59129 | ||
| European Union vs. Turkey [45 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 9, 2006 21:18 | 59129 | ||
| 1 | If the Crusades WERE Continuing.... [155 words] | El Cid | Oct 13, 2006 17:44 | 59129 | |
| Reply to Akbar on the Bible [422 words] | Peter J. Herz | Oct 14, 2006 16:05 | 59129 | ||
| You don't have to worry, there will be no EU left soon [83 words] | Octavian | Nov 3, 2006 00:00 | 59129 | ||
| have a clean europe...have a turkey out of europe! [44 words] | mike | Dec 24, 2006 18:32 | 59129 | ||
| 1 | Yeah, Mike! [87 words] | Octavio | Dec 25, 2006 17:19 | 59129 | |
| 1 | No Turkey [25 words] | Octavio | Dec 25, 2006 17:22 | 59129 | |
| For how long did the Pentagon stare at the Koran? [504 words] | Fahad | Oct 6, 2006 07:58 | 59107 | ||
| Definition of Jihad [389 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 10, 2006 03:05 | 59107 | ||
| Henrik, get a better translation, please [473 words] | Fahad | Oct 11, 2006 08:04 | 59107 | ||
| My translation is as official as it gets! [139 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 11, 2006 17:11 | 59107 | ||
| 1 | Correction [308 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 11, 2006 17:26 | 59107 | |
| Did the Pentagon really look at the Quran at all? [237 words] | Fahad | Oct 11, 2006 18:58 | 59107 | ||
| 1 | For Fahad and his lesson in the Arabic langauge and quranic ta'weel! [252 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 11, 2006 19:47 | 59107 | |
| Quran does not belong to the Saudis [406 words] | Fahad | Oct 12, 2006 07:27 | 59107 | ||
| 1 | For Fahad and suicide in the Qur'an and the sira and the hadith and other sordid matters! [351 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 12, 2006 13:15 | 59107 | |
| 1 | For Fahad and suicide in the Qur'an and the sira and the hadith and other sordid matters part deux! [37 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 12, 2006 18:31 | 59107 | |
| References from the Quran? [321 words] | Fahad | Oct 12, 2006 20:51 | 59107 | ||
| 1 | For Fahad: and Arabian imperialism! [220 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 13, 2006 06:56 | 59107 | |
| 1 | For Henrik: You are doing a good job! [138 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 13, 2006 07:12 | 59107 | |
| For Fahad: bogus claims and translation of Quran 4:95 part deux! [299 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 13, 2006 15:00 | 59107 | ||
| 1 | For fahad: and Saudi transaltions of the Qur'an [158 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 13, 2006 15:16 | 59107 | |
| 1 | For Fahad: and his bogus claims! [74 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 13, 2006 17:09 | 59107 | |
| For Fahad: and his bogus claims part deux! [36 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 13, 2006 17:22 | 59107 | ||
| 1 | For fahad: your claims are bogus! [28 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 13, 2006 17:37 | 59107 | |
| For the madrassa students [151 words] | Fahad | Oct 13, 2006 19:34 | 59107 | ||
| 1 | Thanks, pal! [60 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 14, 2006 06:56 | 59107 | |
| 1 | For Fahad: and his bogus claims and assertions! [682 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 14, 2006 08:53 | 59107 | |
| 1 | To dhimmi no more [185 words] | Vijay | Oct 14, 2006 09:49 | 59107 | |
| 1 | For Fahad: bogus claims and "fight in the cause of Allah" part deux [745 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 14, 2006 16:15 | 59107 | |
| For "dhimmi no more" , the madrassa man. [568 words] | Fahad | Oct 14, 2006 21:33 | 59107 | ||
| 1 | For Fahad and the words: Muqatil and Mujahid and bogus claims [74 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 15, 2006 07:41 | 59107 | |
| 1 | For Vijay: Thank you [176 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 15, 2006 08:03 | 59107 | |
| 1 | For Fahad: and the fantasy continues part deux! [157 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 15, 2006 08:26 | 59107 | |
| 2 | For Fahd/Fahad: Qur'an 2:216 revisited and the fantasy continues part trois! [482 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 15, 2006 15:36 | 59107 | |
| 1 | For Fahad: and more fantasy part cinq! [208 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 15, 2006 16:36 | 59107 | |
| 1 |  Jihad means WAR! [77 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 16, 2006 03:28 | 59107 | |
| Meaning of any word [241 words] | Vijay | Oct 20, 2006 09:45 | 59107 | ||
| meaning of Jihad [180 words] | ali | Jul 17, 2007 09:45 | 59107 | ||
| What Islamic scripture says about Jihad [527 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Jul 21, 2007 16:11 | 59107 | ||
| Some questions for Fahad [298 words] | Monte Gardner | Dec 1, 2007 22:06 | 59107 | ||
| Jihaad is OK if its in "self defence" [354 words] | Monte Gardner | Dec 1, 2007 22:17 | 59107 | ||
| 1 | Pentagon Looks at the Qur'an [131 words] | Infidel | Oct 5, 2006 13:47 | 59025 | |
| I agree [338 words] | Stanley Livingstone | Oct 5, 2006 10:37 | 59017 | ||
| suicide [35 words] | Cliff Mattis | Oct 4, 2006 23:01 | 58975 | ||
| Death in battle is not suicide [551 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 6, 2006 05:00 | 58975 | ||
| Finally! Finally [16 words] | Vinod Kumar | Oct 4, 2006 19:12 | 58955 | ||
| Now What [87 words] | James Biga | Oct 4, 2006 11:41 | 58905 | ||
| For how long did the Pentagon stare at the Koran?! [511 words] | Fahad | Oct 4, 2006 06:47 | 58870 | ||
| 1 | Spending your property and life in Allah's Cause [1026 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 9, 2006 02:31 | 58870 | |
| Answer the question [196 words] | Fahad | Oct 9, 2006 18:53 | 58870 | ||
| 3 | Fighting in Allah's cause [1633 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 10, 2006 17:46 | 58870 | |
| the real truth [602 words] | nadra | Oct 7, 2010 01:21 | 58870 | ||
| at last you find it!!! [190 words] | ps | Oct 4, 2006 03:34 | 58859 | ||
| voa [31 words] | cyrus | Oct 3, 2006 15:51 | 58770 | ||
| here is the thing [121 words] | Bob | Oct 3, 2006 11:51 | 58739 | ||
| I completely agree with you (EOM) [5 words] | sarah sims | Oct 5, 2006 08:39 | 58739 | ||
| 1 | FINALLY [205 words] | dfwhite | Oct 2, 2006 19:13 | 58639 | |
| What next? [57 words] | Vijay | Oct 2, 2006 15:49 | 58618 | ||
| 2 | Great. Now read Hadith as well to nail the coffin. [108 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 2, 2006 15:20 | 58615 | |
| Henrik Ræder Clausen, Qur'an not jumbled or is it [212 words] | Infidel | Oct 3, 2006 18:00 | 58615 | ||
| Is the Koran jumbled? [94 words] | Vinodgupt | Oct 4, 2006 19:09 | 58615 | ||
| Is the Koran Jumbled [12 words] | Rama | Oct 8, 2006 09:19 | 58615 | ||
| With the problem enshrined in the Quran.... [83 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Monty | Oct 2, 2006 15:08 | 58612 | ||
| If the government can get it right, can the Leftist media be far behind? [1005 words] | Dr RJP | Oct 2, 2006 14:57 | 58611 | ||
| 1 | What good parts? [64 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 3, 2006 11:11 | 58611 | |
| 1 | Answer to Henrik: "Whatever they take out of context from the Koran that sounds good...." [242 words] | Dr RJP | Oct 3, 2006 16:21 | 58611 | |
| 1 | Attention dr. RJP [70 words] | Ephraim Bielefeldt | Oct 4, 2006 09:09 | 58611 | |
| 1 | The Koran [347 words] | Vinod Kumar | Oct 4, 2006 12:28 | 58611 | |
| 1 | Muhammad purchased his access to Jewish scriptures [163 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 5, 2006 03:26 | 58611 | |
| 1 | Jumbled Koran [220 words] | Rama | Oct 6, 2006 12:24 | 58611 | |
| 1 | Distorsions in Koran [191 words] | Act Now | Oct 7, 2006 11:53 | 58611 | |
| Islam is the best path to follow. [92 words] | akbar | Oct 7, 2006 16:45 | 58611 | ||
| Muhammad purchasing material for revelations [255 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 7, 2006 21:00 | 58611 | ||
| 1 | Jumbled Koran [204 words] | Rama | Oct 8, 2006 00:49 | 58611 | |
| 1 | Jumbled Koran [307 words] | Rama | Oct 8, 2006 07:44 | 58611 | |
| 1 | Jumbled Koran [340 words] | Rama | Oct 8, 2006 09:16 | 58611 | |
| Rama you are mistaken [123 words] | sp | Oct 9, 2006 04:57 | 58611 | ||
| Purchasing revelations -- Clausen [88 words] | Act Now | Oct 9, 2006 13:19 | 58611 | ||
| 1 | ...Prophet Mohammed [51 words] | Mofidi | Oct 10, 2006 03:54 | 58611 | |
| Mislead you SP [73 words] | SP you have misread the title | Oct 10, 2006 09:23 | 58611 | ||
| Islam under the Prophet Muhammad [146 words] | Akbar | Oct 10, 2006 15:54 | 58611 | ||
| 1 | Arab history [979 words] | Henrik Ræder Clausen | Oct 10, 2006 18:32 | 58611 | |
| Read my comments [11 words] | akbar | Oct 10, 2006 22:08 | 58611 | ||
| 1 | For Akbar: and you must learn the sordid history of early islam! [140 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 28, 2006 14:10 | 58611 | |
| 1 | Have u ever known Muhammad(swt) [257 words] | advisor | Jun 18, 2009 13:58 | 58611 |
Latest Articles
Follow Daniel Pipes
All materials by Daniel Pipes on this site: © 1968-2025 Daniel Pipes. daniel.pipes@gmail.com and @DanielPipes
Support Daniel Pipes' work with a tax-deductible donation to the Middle East Forum.Daniel J. Pipes
(The MEF is a publicly supported, nonprofit organization under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Tax-ID 23-774-9796, approved Apr. 27, 1998.
For more information, view our IRS letter of determination.)