Sentences with phrase «of jihad»

Developed under a defeatist mindset and as a reactionary doctrine, it «engineered» Islamic concepts of jihad, sharia, apostasy, and blasphemy — each of which is used to catalyze radicalism today.

Their campaign «seeks to share the proper meaning of Jihad as believed and practiced by the majority of Muslims.»

In The Kindness of Enemies, Leila Aboulela's twenty - first century protagonist Natalie asks: «How did this historical change in the very definition of jihad come about?»

Two leading Pakistani Muslim scholars, Javed Ahmad Ghamidi and Muhammad Tahir ul - Qadri, both with considerable followings and influence, have written a book and issued a comprehensive legal ruling (fatwa) on the meaning and conduct of jihad.

A leading British Evangelical activist, Patrick Sookhdeo, expresses a similar view: «The violence perpetrated by [jihadi] groups is rooted both in the ideology of large contemporary Islamist movements and in the traditional, orthodox and classical version of Islam, especially its doctrines of jihad, da» wa and dhimmitude, and also the law of apostasy, presented in the authoritative Islamic scriptures and commentaries.»

Given the size and scope of Islam and the obvious turbulence among many Muslims, the previous question comes into focus: What is the meaning of jihad?

Faisal Devji is Reader in Indian History at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and the author of two books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (Hurst, 2005), and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (Hurst, 2009).

Statements by Haqqani network leaders are routinely released at Voice of Jihad, the Taliban's official propaganda arm.

Their failure to consider the conditions necessary for the declaration of jihad, as well as for its proper conduct, provides an obvious example.

Among the doctrines which caused conflict between the Qadianis and the general body of Muslims was Ghulam Ahmad's rejection of jihad, holy war, as one of the principles of Islam.

The purpose of dawa, like the purpose of jihad, is to implement, spread, and defend sharia.

They may be called «extremists» or «fundamentalists» by muslim appeasers like yourself but, at the end of the day, they are always the more dedicated to the koran and following the path of Jihad as mandated by terrorist / pedophile mohammad.

@HawaiiGuest «Since a denial of «god» is at the heart of marxism (or so you say) then since belief in a god is at the core of jihads then all religious people must therefore be associated with the jihadists automatically.»

At a time of international concern over terrorism and fears of jihad against non-Muslim nations, these threads that The Kindness of Enemies unearths, makes it a deeply humane, refreshing and insightful read.

I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet (Macmillan / Henry Holt and Co.; Tantor Audio; OverDrive Sample) is rising on Amazon after the author was interviewed on CBS This Morning.

Allegations of jihad take a different meaning in the modern context.

«It is not hateful, racist or extremist to oppose jihad terror,» said Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch.

The schools are also unanimous in denouncing the killing of fellow Muslims in the name of jihad.

If these millions of religious pilgrims decide to join forces in a united front in this holiest of muslim sites, this could turn into the mother of all jihads.

Acting on a tip from the FBI, Italian authorities arrested four people in Italy and Kosovo Tuesday who were suspected of planning an attack on Pope Francis... The [alleged] terrorist team propagated the ideology of jihad through social networks, the police said.

I'd have to say, you can't compare the two, the majority of Islam's want to kill all in the namesake of Jihad (not so much the American Muslims).

Such are the principles which govern the relations of Muslim and non-Muslim nations and the code of jihad — the Holy Struggle.

«Clearly this program is attempting to manipulate Americans into ignoring the threat of jihad and to influence them to believe that being concerned about the jihad threat would somehow victimize these nice people in this show.»

Wall off a piece of land and build a room with a thatched roof...» (Malfoozat Vol 2, p. 42) «Jamaat» is a form of jihad (today's word is Terrorism) against all other religions not following Islam or accepting Islam as the only true religion.

«Demanding revenge, they re-ignited the fires of jihad, and under the cover of this ideal set out to unify Islam under their despotic rule,» Phillips writes.

The eight pages on the Sudan give only a vague, disjointed account of the jihad the northern government is waging against the Christians and animists in the south.

Well nice try but the majority of scholars have attested to the fact the first crusade was in direct response to 500 years of Jihad in which two thirds of the known Christian world was conqured by Islam.

Not only do they know that the verses of Jihad are more numerous and authoritative (abrogating any earlier verses of «peace»), they also hold their entire quran to be the eternal and literal word of Allah... and this is what often makes these animals so freakin» dangerous.

Today, however, the majority of Muslims, and several International Islamic Organizations, will interpret even the fourth category of jihad as a concerted effort to overcome the evil found within human society so that peace with justice is accomplished for all humans throughout the world.

So many times our two cultures worked together in peace for the benfit of both, in addition to the wars of Jihads and Crusades, that we always seem to hear about so much more.

We will have no need of jihad because all nations will be healed by eating the leaves of a tree of life.

«War is deceit» Qur «an 2:190, the Qur «an's first mention of Jihad, you'll find this passage: «Jihad is holy fighting in Allah's Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry.

The Legacy of Jihad

This basic confusion between the aim of the jihad and the obsession with being «real Mujahideen» is handled with surprising delicacy.

Only Omar appears to have any real knowledge of the Jihad, and spends most of the film shoring up his friends» wavering attitudes towards the act.

Even in Swat, where I reported the first uprising of TNSM in November 1995, the instigators of jihad were not indigenous and their demand for Sharia had criminal motivations.

For letting the forces of jihad flourish under its watchful eyes, as did many others in the region and afar.

In Yemen's al - Qaida and Poetry as a Weapon of Jihad, published in a new book, Twenty - First Century Jihad, she writes: «The power of poetry to move Arab listeners and readers emotionally, to infiltrate the psyche and to create an aura of tradition, authenticity and legitimacy around the ideologies it enshrines make it a perfect weapon for militant jihadist causes.»

Of these three, Al - Shabaab has been given the most attention with regards to their alleged connection to poaching, partly because of an influential 2013 report published by the Elephant Action League (EAL) entitled «Africa's White Gold of Jihad.»

Controversial speaker Robert Spencer was repeatedly shouted down and heckled at the podium yesterday inside a University at Buffalo lecture room, as he tried to give a talk on «Exposing Radical Islam: The Dangers of Jihad in Today's World.»

«In the circumstance every Nigerian has a moral duty to pray and press for her release from the promoters of Jihad and intolerance.

Its protagonists were a group of British and Australian Muslims sitting in front of a black flag while talking about the virtues of jihad and martyrdom, and urging their «brothers back home» to join them.

The redefinition of jihad as peaceful self - struggle is part of a more general tendency to soften Islam's harsher edges in dealing with it in the classroom.