What is Jihad according to Muslim and Islamic Scholars and Authors?
• “Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam. Islam requires the earth – not just a portion, but the whole planet.” And that God’s Law (Shariah) should be enforced in the world “by force of arms.” Truth cannot be confined within geographical borders. “The allegiance of a Muslim does not rest on his domicile in the country which is his, but on the faith to which he belongs … wherever there is the rule of Islam, there is his own country.” – S.A.A. Maududi “Jihad in Islam”, Lahore, 1991 • “Jihad has been decreed to repel aggression and to remove obstructions impeding the propagation of Islam in non-Islamic countries.” As Lt.Col. M.M. Qureshi points out in his “Landmarks of Jihad”, “only a war which has an ultimate religious purpose can be termed as jihad.” – Shayk Muhammad Abu Zahra, Egyptian member of the Academy of Islamic Research • Hasan al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood,
