Jihad

India
September 21, 2006 12:17pm CST
Do you think Jihad actually means killing civilians??
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8 responses
@massimo (92)
• United States
14 Oct 06
Not at all abs jihad is Arabic word for fight,struggle or resiste depends on how and where it used to explaine it The first and the most important is to fight back if you was attacked in your own home or your country and there's no debate on this because I'm sure that everybody will be ready to fight and die for his or her own country. the secind meaning of Jihad is to resist the temptation with in you as a human being for an example you noticed that your next door nighbor's wife,daughter,or sister is very attractive and as a human being your mind starts to tells you things which could hurts your relationship with your neighbor unless you can resist the temptation to harm your neighbor that's colled jihad in Islam and the same thing with resisting the temotation of steeling,cheating, and all the bad things in our life . Prophet Mohamad(peaceBe upon him) said that the most powerful and difficult jihad is to resist yourself and I'm sure everybody will agree about it especially the smokers who wishes to quit,and the heavy drinkers how wishes if they can stop drinking.... I hope everybody understand the real meaning of JIHAD.
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@yorgaki (678)
• Romania
5 Jan 07
I think that the most evil sense in which is perceived the Islam today is the one that regards the killing. NOBODY could compare the sins as smoking, drinking wineor whatever (that are AGAINST yourself only) to the killings that are AGAINST OTHERS. The killing is infinite worse than any "sin". It's like one tell you that he cares about not drinking meat but he goes to kill innocents on the streets. That's filthy !! If the muslim heaven is full with rough killers, bad guys and none noble man, I would not accept to be there after my life's end ! One must be happy in heavens, but seeing monsters around him he just cannot be like that! It reminds me about the cartoons that we see on the TV, where all the fighters are big monsters, ugly and mad. They have nothing spiritual inside them, just a lot of muscles and spreading fear around them. They seems to be just the tools of a smarter guy that let them think that they fulfil a divine call and meantime their leader sleep around with as many girls as he likes. Sounds familiar, isn't it?
@kingadnan (1538)
• Pakistan
17 Dec 06
No, Jihad is a meaning of Struggle for peace and truth. Those peoples who misunderstand jihad they are on wrong way they don't know what is jihad they should study about jihad and islam. Islam teaches us to live with peace and give peace to other human. but they can't understand this.
• Malaysia
18 Dec 06
Try to explain the concept of "killing one christian, get 7 womens in paradise"????(Jihad)
@yorgaki (678)
• Romania
5 Jan 07
lafavorito, they could go elsewhere not in a dense populated place and start killings there. This is arrogance and evilship, not less, not more. By the way, I think that you know (and all our friends here too) that jews were coursed by God for killing Jesus and not recognizing Him as the Messiah and Saviour. They still expect a Messiah - huh !! There are a lot of places in Old Testament that said about the One to be born in Nazareth, about the Jonnah that stayed 3 days in a belly of a great fish (as an image of Jesus staying 3 days in his tomb before His resurrection) and so on, a looooot of analogies and symbols that validated the fact that the Messiah was born to the Earth.
• Philippines
18 Dec 06
Try telling these to the countries that are often attacking Israel.. They are most certainly not living in peace and when Israel attacked them back they told the media that Israel is being unfair. Why don't people just stop war and accept that there are more than one religion on earth?
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@addy220 (597)
• Pakistan
17 Dec 06
JIHAD doesnt means to kill civilians infact islams heavily forbades to kill civilians and anyy innocent
• Philippines
18 Dec 06
Some muslims here in our country, kidnaps foreign tourists and reporters and then asks for ransom money. If the goverment doesn't give them the money they kill their kidnapped victims. Someone like you should go here and educate them, because of them most people perceive muslims as bad.
@yorgaki (678)
• Romania
5 Jan 07
lafavorito, let me disagree with you. the isreelis came about 50 years ago on that territory and since then they didn't stopped to harass the people that lived there in peace. Sorry, they are wrong, too. They cannot invoke the "biblical" right of coming back to "their land" despise of 2 thousand years that they ran out of that territory. That even justify the killings that arabs do against them in revenge, based on the same "holy books" of them, isn't it? Have you ever heard the term OCCUPIED TERRITORIES ?? Let's be fair, whoever start a fire cannot avoid to got blacked by the smoke. There is a fight there between 2 "divine calls" (one of coming back to their roots, another to revenge the unrightful occupation). Noone can decide or even took part of each side in this conflict. Americans do wrong to support one side but luckily they need also the arabs for their oil so that the balance is still kept in the middle. That is to be both unfair and greedy. It's silly. It's like eating garbage just because you're hungry ... Instead of creating a serious alternative to their oil thirsty (which destroys our planet through global warming) they just take the club as the barbarians they don't like to be compared with. The difference is though that at least muslims think that their Jihad is "holy" but occupying the Iraqi in such an stupid american "jihad" (??) how "holy" could be ? Anyway, it seems that they like to be despised by 4-5 billions of people (if even not more) ...
• India
31 Dec 06
a holy war waged against by ,muslims against infidels
• India
7 Jan 07
yaa i think.
@ishtiyak (19)
• Canada
5 Jan 07
Jihad means strugle. Strugle for truth Strugle for your country, your country men Strugle to defend your self, save yourself fom danger Strugle to restrain youself from being endulge into wrong things.. Strugle to stop your temptations... Strugle to keep yourself in control... Unfortunately, people consider it is as negative.
@istanto (8548)
• Indonesia
14 Oct 06
This is just another discussion that received no response unfortunately. I am not saying that we could have helped this person directly but perhaps we could have given them some advice on where to go to find the information that they wanted/needed.
@riscodim (78)
• Indonesia
18 Dec 06
Jihad the way go to heaven............