If the aim of Jihad is to spread Islam to the whole world, does this have any relevance to the Jewish state existing in the middle of the many Arab Muslim states in the Middle East?
• According to the Koran, Muslims have a duty to oppose those who reject Islam, by armed struggled if necessary, and jihad has been invoked to justify both the expansion and defense of Islam. Islamic states pledged a jihad against Israel in the Mecca declaration of 1981, though not necessarily by military attack. – The Cambridge Encyclopedia, p. 637 • During my youth like my father I was always tuned to Islam and what our Muslim teachers taught. Believing in Muhammad’s prophecy I offered my life to ‘Jihad’ or ‘Holy War’ as the only means to obtain either victory or martyrdom. In Islam martyrdom is the only way you can ensure salvation and entry to heaven especially since Allah and his prophet Mohammed promised it… …The simplest way to describe myself is that I was one of those whom one would view on CNN throwing rocks and molotov cocktails in the days of the Intifada or ‘The Uprising’, I was one of these who Jews would call a terrorist, the interesting thing is that I was not only
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