polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 20
th, 2015 at 11:34am:
Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 20
th, 2015 at 11:26am:
Ok lets start with Tarek, he says the doctrine of armed jihad against the kuffar is responsible for Islamic terror, do you agree with this?
The short answer is no.
But this Tarek guy is disingenuously conflating two separate things: what the vast majority of muslim scholars understand to be the doctrine of armed jihad, and what the minority of terrorists understand it to be.
So of course if you took the definition of armed jihad to be only the definition understood by a tiny minority of islamists (and ignored the mainstream view) - then yes, that doctrine is responsible for Islamic terror.
Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 20
th, 2015 at 11:26am:
Tarek says the doctrine of armed jihad against the kuffar should be made defunct and inapplicable to the 21st century, do you agree with this?
The actual mainstream view of armed jihad is identical to universal understandings of the right to self-defense, which no country on earth rejects, and which is even enshrined in the UN charter. So of course it is applicable to the 21st century. But the minority terrorist view of armed jihad - of course it goes without saying - it didn't apply to the 7th century, and it doesn't apply to the 21st century.
Funny how there is a constant disagreement about the eternal word of god among Muslims.
Quran (2:191-193) - "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief or unrest] is worse than killing...
but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun (the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)"
Quran (2:216) - "Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not."
Quran (3:151) - "Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority".
Quran (4:74) - "Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward."
Quran (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks."
Quran (4:95) - "Not equal are those of the believers who sit (at home), except those who are disabled (by injury or are blind or lame, etc.), and those who strive hard and fight in the Cause of Allah with their wealth and their lives. Allah has preferred in grades those who strive hard and fight with their wealth and their lives above those who sit (at home). Unto each, Allah has promised good (Paradise), but Allah has preferred those who strive hard and fight, above those who sit (at home) by a huge reward "
Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"
Quran (8:39) - "And fight with them until there is no more fitna (disorder, unbelief) and religion should be only for Allah"
Quran (8:57) - "If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember."
Quran (8:67) - "
It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war until he had made a great slaughter in the land..."
Quran (8:65) - "O Prophet, exhort the believers to fight..."
Quran (9:5) - "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them."
Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with
willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." (t
his must be the Religion of Peace quote, yes?
)
And so on, and so on.
The scholars and the jihadis disagree on what it all means? I don't think so. They may disagree on az word here and a word there (are we at war?) but the meaning and the spirit of these and many other verses is pretty clear. In fact these may be the least obscure and ambiguous bits of the texts.