Jihad Quotes - Page 2

• If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

  Jack Vance

  Religious, War, Race

  "The Face". Book by Jack Vance, 1979.

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• The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

  Majid Khadduri

  World, States, Instruments

  Majid Khadduri (2006). “War and Peace in the Law of Islam”, p.51, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, War, Years

  "SCIENTIST AT WORK: Steven Weinberg; Physicist Ponders God, Truth and 'Final Theory'" by James Glanz, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 2000.

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• Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system.

  Bassam Tibi

  Giving Up, Islamic, Farewell

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.

  Patty Hearst

  Taken, Littles, Looks

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• The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Growth, Battle, Littles

  "Hamas Pushing for Lead Role in a New Gaza" by James Bennet, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2005.

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• It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Military, Islamic, Exaggeration Is

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• Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

  Marvin Olasky

  Love, Peace, Struggle

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• Did you hear this? They say now Osama bin Laden and his buddy Mullah Omar have left Afghanistan dressed as women. They dressed up as women and went across the border into Pakistan. I think they're going to make a movie about it. They're going to call it 'Some like it Jihad.'

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Borders, Pakistan

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• Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca

  Karen Armstrong

  Loyalty, Father, Mecca

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• We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young Muslims from 'Jihad Against the World' to 'Freedom and Democracy.'

  George Voinovich

  Change, Country, Jobs

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• Militant Islam, jihad, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, you name it, they are conquerors. It might be politically correct to say, somebody like Obama might try to justify what they're doing based on the Crusades, which he constantly does, but it has nothing to do with this. They are conquerors. Islam is a conquest ideology. Not even a religion.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trying, Islam, Ideology

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

  Ralph Peters

  Mean, Islam, Domain

  "When Rights Make Wrongs" by Ralph Peters, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I just heard about a woman in Germany who just gave birth to a baby boy named "Jihad." Or as the TSA put it, "Hope you like Amtrak!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Baby, Boys, Tsa

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• Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't allow Muslims to leave Islam, and there's a death penalty in all the schools of Sharia against those that leave Islam. Sharia defines what jihad is.

  Mark Durie

  Lying, School, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are discovering ways of conversing about the great mysteries. The pretense to know all the answers to the deepest mysteries is, of course, the grossest fraud. And any people who declare a Jihad, a holy war on unbelievers - those who do not share their believers' pretended omniscience - are enemies of thinking men and woman and of civilization. I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community of quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  War, Ignorance, Men

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• ...what will be the outcome of this kind of thing? Holton predicts that "at best, the result could be Muslim enclaves in Western communities in which sharia supercedes native law." Or "at worst, sharia could start to creep into our lives and laws, changing our way of life little by little over time." That would be entirely in line with the stealth jihad goal of Islamizing American society.

  Robert Spencer

  Law, Goal, Community

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• The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

  Sam Harris

  Character, Islam, Violence

  "Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam". www.truthdig.com. February 08, 2006.

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• The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

  Bassam Tibi

  Mean, Islam, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.

  Daniel Pipes

  Determination, Voice, Goal

  "Voices of Islam". New York Post, September 23, 2003.

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• Homeland Security was rejecting, is rejecting terms like Jihad. They don't want to use terms like Jihad or Sharia, because they feel that alienates the youth in terms of propagandizing. However, an imam can talk about the killing of gays. To fight a cult, which is, this is the cult, you have to use the terminology of the cult, because how else can you explain what the cult and its practices are?

  Greg Gutfeld

  Gay, Fighting, Youth

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

  Tom Brokaw

  Thinking, Political, News

  "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2004.

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• ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.

  Michele Flournoy

  Isis, Middle East, Violent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as - as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States.

  Keith Ellison

  Two, Talking, Dating

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Effort, Goodness, Realising

  "The Reformist as Pacifist". Interview with Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. May 16, 2013.

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