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Jihad Quotes
A term with real, differing meanings.
These jihad quotes reflect genuinely different uses of the word: American Muslim voices describing jihad as an internal struggle toward self-improvement, and political statements naming specific groups as terrorist organizations. Together they show a term whose meaning is often debated, related to our Faith quotes.
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- Caribbean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no question that jihad historically means war.
- Peaceful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
- Ideology
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- Nov 07, 2020
The global jihad movement ideology is a destructive religious cult. It is so un-Islamic that it is virtually anti-Islamic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS has democratized and globalized jihad by lowering the entry bar to an eve-of-destruction YouTube pledge of allegiance to the caliphate - and even that could probably be waived.
- Nov 07, 2020