Epicurus
Reasonable
Because I'll beat your ignorant ass into tiny particles of stupid dust.
Whatever makes you feel better. lol.
Because I'll beat your ignorant ass into tiny particles of stupid dust.
Whatever makes you feel better. lol.
Plenty of Muslam groups belive that Jihad is merely a war in which you have to fight to defend yourself from agressors. Its akin to what a declared war is for us.
No there aren't.
Yes they are. NANNY NANNY BOO BOO!
In all branches of islam it means a proactive war against infidels.
in which one is it NOT?FALSE!
in which one is it NOT?
in which one is it NOT?
Jihad means to "Struggle in the Way of God" or "To struggle to Improve oneself, or society"...in which one is it NOT?
The one down the street. Many others I see on the internet. I do not know the names of the sects, but I know many Muslams who do not belive in the Jihad you are talking about.
Jihad is amung the mainstreem muslams another word for justified war. For the radical Muslams, not being muslam is justification for jihad, not for the mainstreem.
Jihad means to "Struggle in the Way of God" or "To struggle to Improve oneself, or society"...
Jihad can be directed at 'The Devil', at oneself, or at an outside enemy.
There are four recognized categories of Jihad.
1. Jihad against oneself
2. Jihad of the tongue
3. Jihad of the hand
4. Jihad of the sword
Islamic jurisprudence has a focus to control the types of jihad practiced by Muslims, therefore you often see the word used in fiqh manuals referring to warfare.
Anyway,
It can mean as little as striving hard to improve yourself, up to direct and violent warfare.
Here is a decent article on it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad
It does not mean only what you define it as using only one of the accepted means of usage.
Jihad means to "Struggle in the Way of God" or "To struggle to Improve oneself, or society"...
Jihad can be directed at 'The Devil', at oneself, or at an outside enemy.
There are four recognized categories of Jihad.
1. Jihad against oneself
2. Jihad of the tongue
3. Jihad of the hand
4. Jihad of the sword
Islamic jurisprudence has a focus to control the types of jihad practiced by Muslims, therefore you often see the word used in fiqh manuals referring to warfare.
Anyway,
It can mean as little as striving hard to improve yourself, up to direct and violent warfare.
Here is a decent article on it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad
It does not mean only what you define it as using only one of the accepted means of usage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam#Jihad
Within Islamic jurisprudence, jihad is usually taken to mean military exertion against non-Muslim combatants in the defense or expansion of the Islamic state, the ultimate purpose of which is to universalize Islam. Jihad, the only form of warfare permissible in Islamic law, may be declared against apostates, rebels, highway robbers, violent groups, unIslamic leaders or states which refuse to submit to the authority of Islam.[62][63] Most Muslims today interpret Jihad as only a defensive form of warfare: the external Jihad includes a struggle to make the Islamic societies conform to the Islamic norms of justice.[64]
And nowadays it's usually 'struggle with the sword'
and additionally
oh, and damo, Chosen People of God isn't racist either.
damo the mason will defend any form of totalitarianism when it comes down to it, theocratic or otherwise.
How would you know, hysterical denial and bad logic don't prove me wrong.Some of the largest and most embarrassing BS I have read is when you attempt to defend what has been proven wrong.
It's when you start in on "Freemason" crap that I know that the argument has been won and that you know nothing of Freemasons.
You stated in this thread many times that the only usage for the word was warfare and that no sect teaches differently. We find out that every sect teaches differently and that the word has far larger-reaching meaning than you wanted us to believe.
How would you know, hysterical denial and bad logic don't prove me wrong.
It is violence in all of them. It may also have other connotations in other context. But none of them completely remove the violence from the teaching.
Good day.
What proved you wrong was the actual writings of the religion. The hysterical denial and bad logic were just a given once you started into factually incorrect assumption. It was the fruit of the poisoned tree.
It is a good day.