May 18 2008
Defensive or Offensive Jihad
The issue at stake is the deep gap between the horrific acts of terrorism coming from the Global Jihad groups, and at the same time the propagation coming from the Islamists in eloquent English and in total terms: firstly, that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance hijacked by extremists; secondly, that there is only one Jihad, the spiritual, that means to worship Allah; and thirdly that the Muslims are ordered to fight their enemies only defensively, as they are themselves attacked.
The stunned “free world” witnesses the hideous and atrocious acts of terror, slaughters, beheadings and extreme violence, and at the same time is being told that this is retaliation for the Western colonialism and neo-imperialism, or that these groups are a small minority, mere weeds in a bigger garden. The “free world” is also being told that the acts of terror of the Jihadists and the threats of demolishing modernity of the 21st century and bringing it back to the 7th century are only because they defend their lands and their families and their honor against Western aggression.
The question that we must answer is, Jihad defensive or offensive? The answer will be given by analyzing Islamic sources and Muslim exegetes as compared to contemporary Islamist propagators of ideas in the West.
The Arab-Islamic terrorist organizations’ strategy against the “free world” is comprised of two parallel but coordinated arms: Jihad – a holy war against the infidels, and Da`wah – the persuasion and conviction means by which to join Islam. Both are intended to achieve the same objectives; both are used at the same time by different perpetrators and against different targets; both are important stages in the march of Islamic rule; and between both, Da`wah is the more dangerous to the “free world”.
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And with the extreme and the moderate, suddenly you have something for everyone! Unless of course you are an object of their hatred!
Da’wah is the more dangerous to the “free world”
True. It’s always the subtlety of the serpent which lures us in. Which is one good reason why the Left is so successful.
The vacuum left by the exit of all things Christian has left the world a dangerous place. Either there is foul and reckless decadence, or the obliteration of all freedom. Actually, decadence is it’s own prison, but that’s another subject.
I’m thinking highly offensive, i don’t particularly care much for words and phrases and definitions, actions are what speak much louder.
Offensive every sense of the word, I’d say