From Umdat al-Salik, Englished as Reliance of the Traveller, which carries the endorsement of Al-Azhar University in Cairo as conforming "to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community":
Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the religion. And it is the lesser jihad. As for the greater jihad, it is spiritual warfare against the lower self (nafs), which is why the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said as he was returning from jihad.``We have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad.''
The scriptural basis for jihad, prior to scholarly consensus (def: b7) is such Koranic verses as:
-1- ``Fighting is prescribed for you'' (Koran 2:216);
-2- ``Slay them wherever you find them'' (Koran 4:89);
-3- ``Fight the idolators utterly'' (Koran 9:36);
and such hadiths as the one related by Bukhari and Muslim that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said:
``I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and perform the prayer, and pay zakat. If they say it, they have saved their blood and possessions from me, except for the rights of Islam over them. And their final reckoning is with Allah'';
and the hadith reported by Muslim,
``To go forth in the morning or evening to fight in the path of Allah is better than the whole world and everything in it.''Details concerning jihad are found in the accounts of the military expeditions of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), including his own martial forays and those on which he dispatched others. The former consist of the ones he personally attended, some twenty-seven (others say twenty-nine) of them. He fought in eight of them, and killed only one person with his noble hand, Ubayy ibn Khalaf, at the battle of Uhud. On the latter expeditions he sent others to fight, himself remaining at Medina, and these were forty-seven in number.) [...]
The caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (N: provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya, def: o11.4) -which is the significance of their paying it, not the money itself-while remaining in their ancestral religions) (O: and the war continues) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax (O: in accordance with the word of Allah Most High,
"Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day and who forbid not what Allah and His messenger have forbidden-who do not practice the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book-until they pay the poll tax out of hand and are humbled" (Koran 9.29)
"Brennan, unruffled, talks terror at NYU," by Josh Gerstein at Politico, February 14 (thanks to Pamela):
President Barack Obama's embattled counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, delivered an emphatic defense Saturday of the Obama administration's rhetorical approach to terrorism -- and also slipped in a few criticisms of Bush administration policies he suggested alienated Muslims at home and abroad.In a speech at New York University's law school, Brennan gave no nod to the calls for his resignation last week from the top Republicans on the House and Senate Intelligence committees. [Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) also joined that bandwagon Sunday.]
Brennan seemed at ease speaking to the largely Muslim audience, which included Islamic law students. In fact, he broke out his Arabic at some length, drawing a warm reaction from the crowd. (Scroll to 5:43 in the first video below for that chunk. I think I hear the words youth and student in there.) [...]
While figures like former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani have accused Obama of being soft on terrorism because he avoids terms like "war on terror" and "jihadist," Brennan strongly endorsed the president's approach.
"They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," Brennan said. "We are not waging a war against terrorism because terrorism is but a tactic that will never be defeated, any more than a tactics of war will. Rather, such thinking is a recipe for endless conflict. ... We are at war with Al Qaeda and its extremist allies, and any comment to the contrary is just inaccurate. We will destroy that organization."
Brennan also charged that some actions by the U.S. government, presumably the Bush administration, underscored perceptions that the U.S. was in conflict with Islam. He cited as examples of overreach: "Violations of the Patriot Act. Surveillance that has been excessive. Policies perceived as profiling. Overinclusive no-fly lists subjecting law-abiding individuals to unnecessary searches and inconvenience. Creating an unhelpful atmosphere around many Muslim charities that made many Muslims hesitant to fulfill their sacred obligation of Zakat."
Brennan's statement that some individuals, presumably Muslims, were subjected to "excessive" surveillance is one I have not heard before from government officials and one that will hearten civil liberties advocates who have claimed that mosques were subjected to unwarranted scrutiny.
Brennan, who mentioned that he is Catholic, blamed religious leaders for spreading myths about Islam's being a religion of violence. "Those who purport to be religious are frequently the most egregious purveyors of ignorance, prejudice and discrimination -- and it must stop," he said. He did not single out any particular denominations or faith leaders.
Brennan disappointed some in the audience by saying that Obama has no plans to back away from support for Israel. "It's tough, but we're not going to separate ourselves from Israel," Brennan said, according to Fox News.
At times, Brennan suggested that the entirety of the American Muslim community has always stood 100 percent behind U.S. anti-terrorism efforts. "America has rarely noticed that American Muslims, such as yourself, have always denounced violent extremism," Brennan said, citing the head of the NYU center.
That blanket statement may overstate the case somewhat, since some prominent Muslims have been unwilling to endorse U.S. designations of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorists....
Mr. Spencer and Ms. Geller,
PLEASE open a can of "whoop-ass" on some people on Friday.
You have received permission from all authors of CrazyIslam to use that site, without attribution, as you see fit.
Now, regarding the Dhimmis in the US government, may their attn. be brought to page 39.
"… an Arab versus non-Arab distinction insinuated itself soon after Islam's founding."
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It appears that even Uncle Sam realizes that inclusion, integration, and assimilation have for almost 1,400 years been overshadowed by exclusion, domination, and subjugation by Muslims.
Profile Muslims or Die
1,400 years of terror and destruction - That is the History if Islam. We're told that one of the worlds "great" religions has been "hijacked" by a few "misguided" extremist, and that Islam is a religion of peace. Mohammed himself was the first terrorist spreading his "religion of peace" through the use of violence and terror. What we're seeing today is that same war that was waged by Mohammed in beginning against the infidels (Jihad) - a war not of our own choosing, but a war declared upon us by the savage followers of Mohammed and our way of life. America and Europe wake up before its too late! Islam is a cancer that needs to be rooted from our societies. We've been at this point in history before...
Allah is not God, and that Mohammed is not a messenger of God
We voted, and in our democracy, Obama was elected to be our president. Even those who didn't vote at all have to accept the legitimacy of Obama as our president. Ours is a nation of rational law. We live our lives as proper citizens when we obey our laws. That our government is corrupt is questionable; but it is not questionable that our government is legitimate. We have a right, if not a duty, to vote in up-coming elections to see if we can make changes lawfully to gain the representation in Congress that we, meaning folks like me, desire. Maybe we won't. that would still leave those unhappy with the option of staying and being unhappy, or they could, like I do, stay away from home till things improve.
But the rest of the world is not our nation, and laws of other lands, so long as those laws are rational and humane, are laws we should follow even in foreign lands because we are human. Some laws transcend the national. Because of that, some laws require that we fight against laws that are based on corruption in corrupt lands.
Mossad understand this. We might think it through and offer at least our moral support sometimes to them.
It is nervewracking, to me, to have the chief of counterterroism be an apologist. It is beyond comprehension, one that can speak arabic, that misrepresent the ideology of islam. All John Brennan has to do is open the q'ran. He will find all the prejudice towards Jews, Christiains, idolatiors, et al. right there in the q'ran.
It is true that not all the muslims are terrorist. But on the flip side, roughly all the terrorsist are muslims (www.religonofpeace.com). Are we going to sacrifice all the lives of innocent Americans just becuase poltical correctness so important that it will have to survive?
Such a filthy and vile religion which teaches to hate all who do not bow to islam, is called a religion of peace by the dhimmis appointed by hussain obama. This bowing can only make the jihadis bold and daring.
http://www.avraidire.eu/2010/02/jay-smith-sharing-your-faith-with-the-muslims-2/
exclusive video, just released on the web
Jay is a christian apologist who debates with muslims on Speakers Corner and on university campuses at a very high level, his heart is to share Christ with the muslim people he loves and to expose the false religion that is Islam.
I'm sorry, I meant http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
http://newstime.co.nz/2010/koran-declaration-of-open-ended-war-against-the-infidels.html
The Koran is a declaration of open-ended war against the infidels. This war is permanent until all infidels have been converted to Islam or reduced to dhimmitude (institutionalized discrimination akin to slavery status), murdered or enslaved.
This is a cold-hard reality for the hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, do-nothing-about-evil naive infidels of our time. …”
In essence what obama has been doing is taking the pressure off islam, from al queda to Governments such as Yemen.All enteties which harbor interests ready to kill Americans, plain and simple.And it is working, yemen relesed hundreds of terrorists less that a week after obama became president, Khan's ankle braclet camme off, just to name two examples. He is letting them get off the hook and providing cover through propaganda and lies. This appointee as others also will tow the line and continue with this charade which will say on the one hand, the enemy is al quedsa, meanwhile forgetting the thousands of murders that happen and will continue to happen in the name of the quran .
Just a year since Obama has been president and he's literally bowed down to every muslim national leader he's ever come across while at the same time completely distanced himself from our (former?) allies. He's employed an arms embargo to Israel while expanding arms sales to every muslim nation he can get money from. If Obama isn't a muslim I'd sure like to hear how he's not. He talks like a muslim, acts like a muslim, bows like a muslim...
This man knows nothing about Islam. The more he speaks the more that is evident.
The Muslim terrorists themselves validate their actions with the Qu'ran and Hadith.
I really think though nothing comes out of this administration without the okay of BO himself. Everyone who speaks reflects what BO believes and wants to happen.
I have seen him speak on TV, he just comes off as deceptive to me.
He claims he lived and studied in the ME for 6 years and six months.
He speaks (lousy) Arabic.
Brennan is a Muslim plant, isn't that obvious?
http://sheikyermami.com/2010/02/16/is-obama-spokesman-john-brennan-a-muslim-plant-or-not/
Muhammad said "war is deceit".
Why are you all so .... learning resistant?
Barack Hussien Obama, the great enabler of Islamic-Fascism.
This is my first stop on the web this morning.
Everything here at home was going very well this morning. Then I hear this taqiyya from Brennan.
**SPIT**
What is so infuriating about Mr. Brennan is that he knows he's lying and doesn't care that anyone else thinks or knows. He's just like his boss, an Islamofacist enabler.
Hmmm, he immediately put down his Christian upbringing, then said Islam helped "shape his world view".
Muslims everywhere in this regime.
He immediately put down his Christian upbringing, then said "Islam helped shape his worldview".
Muslims everywhere in this regime
More evidence that the Bush administation was flying blind.
"Creating an unhelpful atmosphere around many Muslim charities that made many Muslims hesitant to fulfill their sacred obligation of Zakat."-- Beautiful. The same Shari'a
obligates a portion of the mandatory charity tax to go to mujahideen in the world. Muslim charities were and are, of course, a primary vehicle to fund jihadists, including al Qaeda but also all those not-al Qaeda jihadists we are apparently not "at war with." ... "jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," --Jihad is defined in Islamic law as war against non Muslims to establish the religion, if Brennan wants to call that holy or purifying or legitimate then maybe he should also be reciting the shahada.
He mentions Yigal Amir, Rabin's assassin, as an example of "Jewish terrorism." The huge difference is that ALL of Israel, from the right to the left, condemned Amir's deed.
The difference seems to be that, whereas Christian and Jewish societies condemn their fanatics, Muslim societies often enshrine theirs. Am I wrong?
Yes, in addition to citing Yigal Amir as an example of "Jewish terrorist" Brennan could have mentioned the assassin of Gandhi as an example of "Hindu terrorism" and the blowing up of that Air India plane as an example of "Sikh terrorism" and so on. And of course I'm sure Brennan would be happy to cite examples of "Christian terrorism" those who have murdered doctors who perform abortions, all two, or is it three, of them.
But this kind of false symmetry sounds ridiculous, because it is ridiculous. There have been over 15,000 incidents of Muslim terrorism since 9/11/2001, and many thousands before it. They are not the fruit of a single man's decision, directed at a particular leader (Rabin, Gandhi) nor of a small group (those Sikhs who blew up the plane, those anti-abortion-doctor killers). Really, the ability to make distinctions is one of the most important we have.
John Brennan wants his audience not to make such distinctions, and he's showing them the way.
He's exactly the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's frightening that he should be there.
Just one short step from a full Lewinsky.
If we love our country, we must send letters to our two senators and congressperson, demanding both the Senate & House Armed Services Committees hold hearings on Stephen Coughlin’s thesis, “To Our Great Detriment” Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad and why DoD silenced him.
It will be difficult to get Sen. Levin (D-MI) chairman of the Senate committee to hold hearings even when the Muslim’s in Dearborn oppose it.
The military has never completed the proper steps to identify our enemy. http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.176/pub_detail.asp
Here is the challenge, political correctness in Washington, DC. especially in DoD, is keeping us from identifying and fighting our real enemy. The DoD has been infiltrated by those preventing our military to identify the real enemy.
We can read diatribes about the so-called "Moderate Muslim Brotherhood" in Foreign Affairs, but when the Brotherhood speaks on its own we can only hear the extremist rhetoric about instituting shari'a and excluding non-Muslims and women from high office.
http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.176/pub_detail.asp
“To Our Great Detriment”
Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad
by Stephen C. Coughlin, Esq.
Published on July 2nd, 2007
REPORTS
In comments made at the National Defense University on 1 December 2005, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace explained to his audience the importance of “understand[ing] the nature of the enemy” if we hope to defeat jihadi extremists. Comparing our situation today, with that faced by an earlier generation who had to deal with the reality of the Nazi threat, General Pace suggested a simple solution to complying with his injunction: “read what our enemies have said. Remember Hitler…. He said in writing exactly what his plan was that we collectively ignored to our great detriment (emphasis added).” Just as we ignored Hitler’s articulation of his strategic doctrine in Mein Kampf, so too are we on the verge of suffering a similar fate today, if we fail to seriously assess the extremist threat based on jihadi strategic doctrine.
Read the full report here: "To Our Great Detriment": Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad
http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.176/pub_detail.asp
Extremism and CAIR
http://www.strategycenter.net/docLib/20080127_Extremism_and_CAIR.pdf
Extremism and ISNA
http://www.strategycenter.net/docLib/20080127_Extremism_and_ISNA.pdf
Brennan is sadly lacking in knowledge of Islam and its 1400-year history, only some of its current manifestations. Go to school online free with the Historyscoper and master all the key facts about Islam and its history at http://go.to/islamhistory
Brennan is not ignorant, he's a liar:
"They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," Brennan said.
QED
And, btw there is nothing holy about Islam. Islam is an affront to the word holy.
Brennan is not ignorant, he's a liar:
"They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," Brennan said.
QED
And, btw there is nothing holy about Islam. Islam is an affront to the word holy.
Brennan is not ignorant, he's a liar:
"They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," Brennan said.
Q.E.D.
And, nothing Islamic can be holy. Islam is an affront to the word holy.
Brennan is not ignorant - he is not lacking in knowledge about Islam, he's simply a liar:
"They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," Brennan said.
Q.E.D.
And, nothing Islamic can be holy. Islam is an affront to the word holy.
Brennan is not ignorant - he is not lacking in knowledge about Islam, he's simply a liar:
"They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," Brennan said.
Q.E.D.
If 1388 years of evidence cannot make that clear to him, nothing will.
And, nothing Islamic can be holy. Islam is an affront to the word holy.
Brennan is not ignorant - he is not lacking in knowledge about Islam, he's simply a liar:
"They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children," Brennan said.
Q.E.D.
If 1388 years of evidence cannot make that clear to him, nothing will.
And, nothing Islamic can be holy. Islam is an affront to the word holy.
whoops - I didn't think it was posting.
Sorry everyone - I suppose I made my post perfectly clear!
:-)
"Brennan disappointed some in the audience by saying that Obama has no plans to back away from support for Israel. "It's tough, but we're not going to separate ourselves from Israel," Brennan said, according to Fox News."
It's "tough," huh? What a sniveling dhimmi.