Dear SPQR,

Jihad as projected in the Koran is not a single
concept.

It is a range of activities based on the Arabic
meaning of the word - "exerted effort." In the
Koran it is projected as exerting effort to
change oneself. The most difficult jihad is
the one of the soul. The biggest trouble is not
with your enemy but with yourself. Changing yourself.

Your understanding of jihad is a narrow one - and a
"Western" interpretation.

Foxy(to SPQR), "Your understanding of jihad is a narrow one - and a Western" interpretation"

Western understanding of jihad and false according to Foxy's dogmatism,

"Governments across Europe have noticed this pattern between crime and jihad and are fearful. These individuals will have access to criminal networks should they return and therefore have easier access to weapons
Terror expert Raffaello Pantucci"

and

"EXCLUSIVE: Violent young British criminals sign up for GANGSTA JIHAD
By: Amardeep Bassey:August17,2014

VIOLENT Muslim criminals from Britain who are flocking to join Islamic State terrorists are bragging about waging “gangsta jihad” and could pose a deadly threat on our streets if they ever return to the UK.

Some have admitted carrying out armed robberies at home to fund their trips to the Syria and Iraq conflicts while others have convictions for drug dealing and violence, with known links to street gangs.

Their battlefield experience, fanaticism, thirst for violence and links to gangs that would give them easy access to weapons, could enable them to launch terrifying attacks in the UK. Last night a Special Branch source said: “The so-called jihad in Iraq and Syria has been particularly inviting to some young British Muslims who are already involved in violent crime in this country.

“They are attracted by the glamour of fighting for a ruthless organisation like IS and are no strangers to extreme violence and brutality.

“For many it has been like an adventure holiday and some have referred to ‘gangsta jihad’ in their postings on social media. The language they use, referring to their guns as ‘chrome’ and addressing their ‘homies’ back in the UK, is the sort of street slang associated with criminal gangs.”

Governments across Europe have noticed this pattern between crime and jihad and are fearful. These individuals will have access to criminal networks should they return and therefore have easier access to weapons.
..
“If we do not act to stem the onslaught of this exceptionally dangerous terrorist movement, it will only grow stronger until it can target us on the streets of Britain.”

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/500239/Violent-young-British-criminals-sign-up-for-gangsta-jihad

otb,

You really are a champion of verbal abuse, nasty insinuation
and downright mistruth.

Your posts are getting even weirder and more inappropirate.

Kindly read what I actually did say.

Fair dinkum mate!

To Yuyutsu.

It is a good thing that Hitler's Nazis and Pol Pot's henchman did not start religions, because if they had you would be making excuses for them also, because they are blessed religions.

Mohammad was a warlord who led 68 successful military campaigns to spread Islam. But you give him the benefit of the doubt because he is the leader of a religion, and you are in awe of religions. It does not matter if he had 800 Jews beheaded in Medina and beheaded a few people himself he didn't like. God must love him or he would not have let him create a religion which praised God.

A cynic like myself would opine that Mohammed invented a Islam as a warriors religion to make his warriors invincible in battle and to justify Arab empirical expansion. Churchill once said that modern Christianity had been a moderating force against violence in the world. You definitely could not say that about Islam. Unless you approve of throat cutting, genocide, ethnic cleansing and beheading to advance religion.

How noice of you. Confronted by a religion which sanctions the marriage of little girls, the murder of apostates, blasphemers and homosexuals,female genital mutilation, the punishment of women who are raped, honour killings, the concept that women are minors who musty obey men, and that religion should be spread by military force, you wonder if Mohammad might have been misunderstood and you will not pass judgement on Islam until you have learned more.

If Christianity moderates western violence, could I make the connection that Islam is the opposite? That would account for the very high levels of violence in Muslim societies, and the very high levels of violence of Muslims in western countries.

"Practically the only way to change radical
fundamentalism is through economic
development and an improved standard of
living."
(Yitzhak Rabin).

The following link may be of interest:

http://amf.net.au/library/uploads/files/Religion_Cultural_Diversity_Resource_Manual.pdf