A question for Jihadists and people who agree with their ideology?

Question

How do you rationalize and justify the blowing up and killing of innocent people? Do you realize how irrational your beliefs are? How is beheading someone for not believing like you do God's will?

Answer 1

The underlying issues you hint at are caused by the loose federation of Islamic leadership, with no coordinated definition of Islamic orthodoxy.

To me the most vital thing Islam needs is some centralized authority speaking out against the acts of the radicals. Unfortunately, Islam is very non-hierarchical, so there is no central group of perceived leaders of the Islamic faith that speak with one voice and condemn the actions of the heretical.

Where is the public outcry from Islam's theologians over the acts of these radicals? It is missing in the media and the silence among the leadership is deafening to the observers on the sidelines.

If Christian radicals were performing the acts that we see Islamic fundamentalists doing, there would be a world outcry among the leaders of Christian organizations condemning these persons as heretics. It would be in all the newspapers, television, etc.

Muslims are quick to point to the violence recorded in the Christian bible and claim that Christianity’s early history was violent, too. But unlike the Bible where some very awful HISTORY is recorded, the violence described in the Qur’an is part of Islamic THEOLOGY. This is a very significant distinction between the two belief systems.

The famous Muslim scholar and “father of modern history” Ibn Khaldun states the dichotomy between jihad and defensive warfare thus:

In the Muslim community, the holy war [i.e. jihad] is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force... The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense... They are merely required to establish their religion among their own people. That is why the Israeilites after Moses and Joshua remained unconcerned with royal authority [e.g. a “caliphate”]. Their only concern was to establish their religion [not spread it to the nations]… But Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations (The Muqudimmah, vol. 1 pg. 473).

I believe Islam is going through what the Christian faith went through during the Reformation. During the Reformation religious leaders were forced to carefully define their doctrines, that is, what do Christians really believe? This established a baseline of orthodoxy that then could be used as a litmus test for the practices of self-professed Christians.

Islamic leaders must do the same thing. They must codify their acceptable theologies, especially the violence now part of the Sharia, Muhammad’s Sunna (4:24, 4:92, 8:69, 24:33, 33:21, 33:50), and the “sword-verses” of the Qur’an (e.g., 9:5, 9:29). Then Muslim leaders should defend these theologies against heretics loudly and publicly.


I have found the non-Christian religions, such as Islam, to be philosophically indefensible, being internally incoherent or undermining human reason and experience. To better understand Islam, I suggest you review the following sites:

http://www.carm.org/islam.htm
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/04/islam_apologists_tell_a_partia.html

Answer 2

Hi there.. first of all let me tell you... Every muslim is to 'jihad'.. Now, jihad here is fighting worldly temptations to become pious... Jihad as being projected today by few extremists is wrong.. And no, I dont agree with their ideologies, nor would any proper muslim.. I can never justify killing innocent people, it's against the basic teachings of the Qur'an... And in Islam, you cannot force anyone to accept or convert to Islam... :Let there be no compulsion in religion"... But, nowadays as mulims are being suppressed .. people are getting a little rebellious.. hence, the hatred for west.. How can YOU justify bombing entire Afghanistan to catch a group of terrorists.. How can YOU justify killing thousands of innocentt in Iraq with your bombs to search for unexisting WMD... and in today's world is it decent to kill the leader of a country...??? And the seeds of hatred left behind by war are showing their effect (divide and rule) amongst the Iraqi population...
I speak this as a mere observer... and wonder... why the difference between terrorists and those who declare war???

Peace...

Answer 3

Jihadis are not terrorists. They are matyrs. They do not kill innocents and they only fight when they need to defend their people. Only the extremists agree with the ideology of terrorists. They dont even follow the Quran.

People disagreeing cannot find one verse in the Quran that tells you to kill innocents

Answer 4

Jihadists are terrorists.

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Answer 5

Well if you put it like that...it does sound bad.