Ah, now we're getting somewhere: jihad is really an inner spiritual struggle, right? No warfare against unbelievers is involved, right? That's what those who claim this site is "Islamophobic" keep telling us, right?
Not surprisingly, that is not what we get here. Al-Qaradawi has been praised by establishment dhimmi Islamic scholar John Esposito as a champion of a "reformist interpretation of Islam and its relationship to democracy, pluralism and human rights."
He also says that Muslims should obtain nuclear weapons, explaining: "The Koran referred to this, saying: 'Prepare against them what force and steeds of war you can, to strike terror in the hearts of the enemies of Allah and of your own enemies, and others besides them, whom you do not know, but Allah knows.' 'Prepare against them what force and steeds of war you can.'"
That's Qur'an 8:60. And he also prayed that Allah would kill all the Jews: "Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."
And so when this "reformist" turns to jihad, he ain't exactly Gandhi. He blames "Orientalists" for the idea that jihad is holy war to spread Islam, but then goes on to say that Islam can and should be spread by many other means -- something that we have been telling people at this site for years. It should also be borne in mind that spreading Islam is not just a spiritual quest, but a political one, since with Islam will come Sharia, and the institutionalized, legal oppression of women and non-Muslims.
"Ward Off Western Propaganda Against Jihad, Muslims Told," from Bernama, December 19 (thanks to James):
PUTRAJAYA, Dec 19 (Bernama) -- The Western orientalists' propaganda that describes Jihad as a "holy war" to spread Islam across the world should be tackled seriously by all Muslims, World Union of Muslim Ulama chairman Prof Dr Yusuf Abdullah Ali Al-Qaradawi said.To do so, he said, the Muslims should understand the real concept of Jihad to enable them to ward off the criticisms pertaining to the spread of Islam.
Apart from Jihad, he said the spread of Islam across the modern world could also be done via the Internet and the print and electronic media.
"Islam teaches the Muslims to spread the religion in a wise and proper manner.
"It will be wrong if it is done in the opposite manner. To understand the truth about something, we must also see the comparison," he said when delivering a talk at the "Muhadharah Perdana 2009" programme here on Saturday.
Dr Al-Qaradawi, who is also the chairman of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, said although Jihad was compulsory for all Muslims, Islam had never been spread by using violence.
"Indeed, violence is not the smartest way to spread Islam. The use of swords in war may be necessary to open a new state, but it cannot open human minds," he said..
Spiritually speaking, I don't see where this 'inner struggle' is getting them anywhere...The ummah and all its parts have been 'inner struggling' for 1400 years...What has it produced...Bin Laden, the 911 gang of five, Nidal Hasan,
Adjem Choudary, Qaradawai, and a host of other 'internal strugglers' with weapons... The knowledge of 'uncovered meat' was revealed by 'internal struggling'...so it's not entirely wasted...
"Indeed, violence is not the smartest way to spread Islam. The use of swords in war may be necessary to open a new state, but it cannot open human minds," he said.
This sounds a lot like (not so) clever double speak. IOW: We are not spreading islam by the sword, we are only opening a new state. Can we help it if that state just happens to become islamic?
'Prepare against them what force and steeds of war you can, to strike terror in the hearts of the enemies of Allah and of your own enemies, and others besides them, whom you do not know, but Allah knows.'
Ah, yes. Um, um good. Gotta love that down home, old time, peace lovin' Islam.
Tell us Abdullah Mike, tell us again how we're all a bunch of deludenoids and hatemongers.
Jihad, openly discussed by Westerners as Holy War? The surrender monkeys, assorted dhimmis and usual useful idiots would never say that there's anything remotely war-like about jihad, despite 1400+ years of mahoundian aggression to describe it as such... They actually talk about it as though it were like, of all things, YOGA.
I'm surprised they haven't started to talk about jihad as if it were Tai Chi as well... To make those most gullible among us to try to see a parallel between those practicing the latter on San Francisco's Washington Square, and those blowing three-dozen people a day in Porkistan...
Islam doesn't want people with open minds.It wants submission.In Islam,independent thought can be bad for you.