On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:09:43 -0700, Dan Clore
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> wrote:
> I've struggled through the Koran (yawn!) and I believe that your reading
> is correct. The passages taken out of context and represented as
> requiring "jihad" against all "infidels" actually simply exhort Muslims
> to fight bravely when they happen to be at war.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/SKM/jihad.htm
This is written by ex Muslims, who tell us:
In his book, “ Jurisprudence in Muhammad’s Biography” the Azhar
scholar, Dr. Muhammad Sa’id Ramadan al-Buti wrote the following: “The
Holy War (Islamic Jihad), as it is known in Islamic Jurisprudence, is
basically an offensive war. This is the duty of Muslims in every age
when the needed military power becomes available to them. This is the
phase in which the meaning of Holy war has taken its final form. Thus
the apostle of God said: ' I was commanded to fight the people until
they believe in Allah and his messages…..(page 134, 7th edition) ”.
Azhar scholar Dr. Buti adds in the same book (page-263): The apostle
of Allah started to send military detachments from among his followers
to the various Arab tribes which were scattered in the Arab Peninsula
to carry out the task of calling (these tribes) to accept Islam. If
they did not respond, they (Muslims) would kill them. That was during
the 7th Hgira year. The number of the detachments amounted to ten.”
The Baydawi quoted in his book (The lights of Revelation, page-252):
“Fight Jews and Christians because they violated the origin of their
faith and they do not believe in the religion of the truth (Islam),
which abrogated all other religions. Fight them until they pay the
poll-tax (Ziziya tax) with submission and humiliation.”
In another place of his book (The Jurisprudence in Muhammad’s
Biography) Al-Buti (published in Egypt) quoted: “The concept of Holy
War (Jihad) in Islam does not take into consideration whether
defensive or an offensive war. Its goal is the exaltation of the Word
of Allah and the construction of Islamic society and the establishment
of Allah’s Kingdom on Earth regardless of the means. The means would
be offensive warfare. In this case, it is the apex, the noblest Holy
War. It is legal to carry on a Holy War.”
Ibn Hisham-Al Sohaily quoted in his famous book (Al- Rawd al- Anaf,
page-50,51 ): " No two religions are to exist in the Arab Peninsula .”
Therefore, Saudi Government does not allow any other religion to
manifest their religious task. What a tolerant and peaceful religion
Islam is!
The well-known Egyptian scholar, Sayyid Qutb, (Sayyid Qutb,
Milestones, Revised Edition, chapter. 4, “Jihaad in the Cause of God")
notes four stages in the development of jihad:
1. While the earliest Muslims remained in Mecca before fleeing to
Medina, God did not allow them to fight;
2. Permission is given to Muslims to fight against their
oppressors;
3. God commands Muslims to fight those fighting them;
4. God commands the Muslims to fight against all polytheists.
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We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because
of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this
right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.
http://www.jim.com/
James A. Donald
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