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2006-07-03 17:29:35 · 9 answers · asked by KAREN M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Jihad" is to struggle rightly for God or something that he stands for. It is to defend what is right. It is Holy, it is a struggle, but it is NOT war.
To make war for religious reasons is a "Crusade". It was wrong in the middle ages and it is wrong now. Today it is also called Terrorism.
You heard me, Osama. You are waging a CRUSADE!
2006-07-03 17:36:02 · answer #1 · answered by 0sprey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A holy war,
Basically, when a religious leader takes a war to a group based on religious reasons, that's jihad. It's generally an arabic word so corresponds mostly to muslim faith, but with the growing globalization words like this are often crossed over to different segments of the world.
Take for example Bushes Jihad against the immigrants, poor, and other people in America and many other countries.
2006-07-04 00:32:22 · answer #2 · answered by ngrimmm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jihad has many meanings the one you refer to that leads to martyrdom is doing every thing possible to fight the invaders of Muslim’s land as in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine.
Yesterday in CNN, they show the tragedy of the 15 year old Iraqi girl who was raped by five Americans before they killed and burned her with her mother, father, and little sister. Her two brothers were at school, and when they came they were shocked, if those two brothers in the future take revenge from the Americans by performing suicide bombings which is the only way they can afford then they are martyrs even if the whole world said they are terrorist. Some wise persons should study the real causes of the spread of terrorism in the world and I think it is not difficult to find the truth, watch what is going in Gaza and Iraq and you will know who the victims are and who are the real terrorists.
2006-07-04 01:51:24 · answer #3 · answered by helper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jihad in its truest meaning means patronizing justice....standing up for the truth and for what is right....
where principles are placed higher than the life of a person...
truly phenomenal in concept, its also highly misunderstood and most of the time highly misused theory...
2006-07-04 13:06:06 · answer #4 · answered by . 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jihad is a war in the name of allah. in the muslim faith, it is unclear if you go to heaven if you didn't participate in jihad. if you aren't a participant, you only get to heaven if your good works outnumber the bad deeds. but when you are a participant, you are guaranteed a spot in heaven. Jihad could be actual war (claiming lives in allah's name) or something else (I don't know, I'm not a muslim)
2006-07-04 00:40:26 · answer #5 · answered by cybahdawg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War against lusts and materialistic desires, war against ignorance, it is search for knowledge and truthfulness, fighting against terrorism and to over throw all type of these activities which hinder a person to act on ones faith and believe in God.
2006-07-04 00:40:05 · answer #6 · answered by Asim_ISB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH DREAMER.....
JIHAD IS TO FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE....IF U KILL CIVILIANS,IT'S NO JIHAD....BUT IF 1 KILLZ BUSH ...ETC...IT'S CALLED JIHAD....JIHAD IS A MUST.....OTHERWISE U KNOW,......SOME PEOPLE WANT MUSLIMS 2 B THROWN OUTA THIS EARTH....THAT'S NOT DONE...
C'MONE ,IN WHICH RELIGION,IS SELF-DEFENSE CONSIDERED WRONG????
2006-07-07 18:42:53 · answer #7 · answered by BLACK_KILLZ_she is terror 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
INAAZ YOU LIVE IN INDIA AND HATE INDIANS AND LOVE PAKISTAN BECAUSE ITS A MUSLIM COUNTRY...
U R A TERRORIST!!!!!
JUST GET OUT OF THE COUNTRY U HATE AND STOP BOMBING OUR TRAINS AND PEOPLE. AND GO TO YOUR PAKISTAN.
2006-07-08 08:08:51 · answer #8 · answered by Dawood_Gaswea 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good news here.
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp
2006-07-04 00:46:05 · answer #9 · answered by † PRAY † 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋