Posted by
Jackanapes on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 6:53:23 AM
Main Entry: ji·had
1 : a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also : a personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline
2 : a crusade for a principle or belief
There is discussion of starting an Anti-Islamofascist Coalition much like the anti-communist movement of the recent past. This is a worthy thing to go forward with. I would like to think that the moderate practitioners of Islam should be in the front line to recapture the peace aspiration of there religion.
Just as there are still communist governments in existence today there would be no prohibition of Islam only the Islamofascist embodied in the ideal of Osama Bin Laden and other fundamentalist who want a conversion by sword. There is a fair compromise in a moderate Islamic world who practices it's all encompassing philosophy expressed in the five pillars of Islam. The Shahadah should act as a testimony of a people living together in a world of many religions with out failing to recognize that they believe there's is the only true faith. Testimony of faith is best practiced by attraction not sword.
What I know of Islam is like the contents of a thimble yet there is a comedie humaine that calls for the coexistence of all Gods creation. The willful indiscriminate destruction fomented by the Islamofascist terror pogrom is the threat we face today. I would posit that it is also the greatest threat to the religion of Islam. Moderate Islam needs a Martin Luther like reform of it’s religion.
This world struggles for and against modernity. The Crescent War is part of that struggle for hearts and minds. Where do you find yourself and your aspirations in context of this jihad?