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To: Joiseydude

No, Jihad mean holy war in Allah’s cause.


20 posted on 08/27/2007 11:45:17 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

No, jihad means struggle, it has always meant that in Arabic, and means it whenever any Arabic speaker uses it. Secular Arabic speakers may have be engaged in a jihad to keep their waistlines trim. An Arabic speaker who is hanging on to a cliff edge could describe the effort to get himself back onto the top of the cliff as jihad.

‘Jihad’ only takes on a technical Muslim theological meaning in context, even as, for instance, the English word ‘saved’ only takes on a Christian theological meaning in context, but otherwise might be used in phrases like the schoolboy’s ‘saved by the bell’ or ‘saved from drowning’ or ‘saved a lot of money by buying wholesale’.


36 posted on 08/27/2007 12:06:39 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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