Beware of Jihad

By Austin Wagner

Thesis Statement

The Violence seen in the Islamic religion throughout the course of History can
be blamed on the literal interpretations of jihad in response to the success
and interference of western civilizations

Interpretations of Jihad

Koran (jihad is mentioned in 29 of 114 Suras)

Hadiths

Correct way to interoperate Jihad

Its Arabic root (jhd) to strive or to struggle to achieve perfection

Medieval way to interoperate jihad

Holy War

In Arabic holy war is harb-al- muqaddasah

Not found in either the Koran or Hadiths

Continued

Two circumstances in which to fight found in the Koran

Self defense

Maintain the right to worship

Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphate ended the unified political
Islamic doctrine and centralized power

Lead to new leadership

New ways of interoperate the term jihad

Interference of western civilizations

Foreign affairs and interference has caused Muslims to feel threatened

Patrick J> Buchanan To some Americans, searching for a new enemy against who to
test our mettle and power, after the death of the death of communism, Islam is the
preferred antagonist. But to declare Islam an enemy of the U.S. is to declare a
second cold war that is unlikely to end in the same resounding victory as the first.

Continued

At the end of WWII America considered the Middle East region the most
strategically important area of the world

In 1957 the Eisenhower Doctrine was finalized

Gave the U.S. president the ability to intervene militarily in the Middle East

Making the U.S. an uncontested western power in the Middle East

Continued

Around the same time Jordan nationalist anti-government rioting began to

break out

In 1967 war broke out between Israel, Egypt, and Syria

America sent money and marines in an effort to keep the pro-American King
Hussein of Jordan in power

U.S. provided money to Israel as aid and shoed its dominance in the Middle East

In 1990 the Gulf War began

U.S. sends troops to Saudi Arabia as a form of defense

In response to Iraqs invasion of Kuwait and refusal to leave

Continued

I am not saying that these actions by the U.S. are unjust

These are just severe examples of the U.S. asserting their dominance in the
Middle East

This posed a threat to Islamic states in the Middle East

Responses from the Islamic states

Osama Bin Laden

Since 1985 he was collecting money through family and a thriving construction
business

Using these funds to ultimately create al-Qaida

Recruiting Muslims from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Pakistan

Al-0Qaida had no stakes in real social relations

Embodies neither hope nor the alternative

No specific political projects

Also did not promise a brighter future or a future at all

Solely embodied vengeance to the frustrated Muslims

Continued

September 11th attacks

Hamid Mir (editor of the Urdu daily Ausaf)

America and its allies are massacring us (Muslims) in Palestine, Chechnya,

Kashmir, and Iraq. The Muslims have the right to attack America in reprisal. The
attacks of September 11 were not targeted at women and children but the
American icons of military and economic power. Americans should remember
they pay taxes to their government, who manufactures arms and gives them to
Israel. Israel then uses this to massacre our people. America is responsible for
the atrocities perpetrated against Muslims.

Continued

Syed Ahmad Bukhani (of the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in Delhi)

Feels no grief for the attacks and hopes the U.S. is erased from the face of this
earth by our Muslim fighters

Called out the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf

He has bowed his head to America which is beneath any Muslim

It is clear the goal of Muslims is not to only remove the U.S. from the Middle
East but erase them as a whole

The only justification of these ideas would be a misunderstanding of the term

jihad

Conclusion

The U.S. has asserted its dominance in the Middle East

This has proposed a threat to the Islamic states and caused irrational
intentions and consequences to not only the U.S. military but to all citizens
living in the U.S.

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