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When God Sanctions Violence, Believers Act More Aggressively...
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Especially when it is a legal imperative to do so...
"O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people." (5:51), therefore, "...Fight those who do not believe in Allah...nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. (9:29) also,..."The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews" (al-Bukhari)
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I think your equating all acts of violence committed in the name of Islam as "terrorism" is problematic. If, for example, a number of Muslim states in the M.E. were to declare war on Israel and send their armed forces to attack, would that constitute terrorism or a condition of general war?
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Neither Jewish nor Christian scriptures nor any other religions employ such perpetual, open-ended commandments for "War." Although we in the west don't think their way, Islam has already declared war on us - secularists, atheists, buddhists, Jews, and christians alike, a never ending eternal war, and the perpetual acts of terrorism only reinforce what is sanctioned by their legal doctrine. To them it is a religious war, sanctioned by Islam.
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...The crucial difference in Islam, however, is that war against the infidel is a perpetual affair—until, in the words of the Qur'an, "all chaos ceases, and all religion belongs to God."[25] In his entry on jihad from the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Emile Tyan states: "The duty of the jihad exists as long as the universal domination of Islam has not been attained. Peace with non-Muslim nations is, therefore, a provisional state of affairs only; the chance of circumstances alone can justify it temporarily."[26]...
...Obligatory jihad is best expressed by Islam's dichotomized worldview that pits the realm of Islam against the realm of war. The first, dar al-Islam, is the "realm of submission," the world where Shari'a governs; the second, dar al-Harb (the realm of war), is the non-Islamic world. A struggle continues until the realm of Islam subsumes the non-Islamic world—a perpetual affair that continues to the present day. The renowned Muslim historian and philosopher Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) clearly articulates this division:
In the Muslim community, jihad is a religious duty because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force. The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the jihad was not a religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense. But Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.[29]...
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http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war
http://www.meforum.org/2159/are-juda...olent-as-islam
Does the indiscriminate killing of innocent life constitute terrorism?
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According to S.K. Malik, terrorism is a form of warfare, the Quranic concept of war explains the role of 'terror' in the implementation of war:
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL4086137M/...concept_of_war