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  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     OP - February 04, 2013, 10:32 PM
    http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/03/us/myjihad-campaign/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1

    of course, I am sure they will try to trivialize the word.  "my jihad is working hard to support my family"  yada yada  Roll Eyes
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  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #1 - February 04, 2013, 10:58 PM
    I say let them trivialize it. If passing calculus or breastfeeding your infant fulfils your requirement to do “Jihad,” then I say have at it. Whatever will keep our airports, subway stations, and sky scrapers safe is fine with me. Incidentally, Mein Kampf also means “My Struggle.”   
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #2 - February 04, 2013, 10:59 PM
    My jihad... jihad means struggle, yep that's 1 definition of it, for sure. You know what "Mein Kampf" means? "My struggle". Not saying there's a connection but sometimes some words and phrases can't be so easily "reclaimed".

    The problem of Islamophobia is not just about something as simplistic as "Islam gets a bad image in the media". It's superficial to only look at Islam's "image" as though it's some brand that just needs to be rebranded with a new PR campaign. The problem many people have with Islam is within Islam's texts and traditions. As long as Muslims are just spending all their energy on whitewashing Islam's "image" they are ignoring the very serious problems (sharia, gender roles, over reliance on clergy, restrictions on free thought etc.) contained within Islamic texts, traditions and communities.


    ETA: HM beat me to it Grin
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  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #3 - February 04, 2013, 11:02 PM
    * waits for hardline bastards to start saying they want their jihad back too! *
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #4 - February 04, 2013, 11:08 PM
    Quote from: allat on February 04, 2013, 10:59 PM
    My jihad... jihad means struggle, yep that's 1 definition of it, for sure. You know what "Mein Kampf" means? "My struggle". Not saying there's a connection but sometimes some words and phrases can't be so easily "reclaimed".

    One is a totalitarian ideology based on the unwavering faith in the ascendancy and supremacy of a chosen people and fanatical devotion to a figurehead, and the other is Nazism.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #5 - February 04, 2013, 11:12 PM
    Its almost as though their reaction to anti-Muslim bigotry is to defend one of the most problematic parts of Islam without actually addressing the problem. Which is, problematic.
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


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  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #6 - February 04, 2013, 11:13 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on February 04, 2013, 11:08 PM
    One is a totalitarian ideology based on the unwavering faith in the ascendancy and supremacy of a chosen people and fanatical devotion to a figurehead, and the other is Nazism.


    Nice! Very Bill Maher-esque of you!
  • Re: Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #7 - February 05, 2013, 12:28 AM
    Quote from: Ishina on February 04, 2013, 11:08 PM
    One is a totalitarian ideology based on the unwavering faith in the ascendancy and supremacy of a chosen people and fanatical devotion to a figurehead, and the other is Nazism.

    Ishina, which chosen people are you talking about ?
    I know than in practice, Islam is very much an Arab religion deeply rooted in Arab tradition and culture, but still, there is no chosen people stuff in Islam, is there ?
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #8 - February 05, 2013, 12:37 AM
    Muslims.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #9 - February 05, 2013, 02:16 AM


    Clearly you guys don't know what you're talking about.
    ***~Church is where bad people go to hide~***
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #10 - February 05, 2013, 03:06 AM
    Incidentally I was planning to start a thread about the miracle of jihad. Masha' Allah
    "That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger" (The Koran 69:40)
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #11 - February 05, 2013, 03:46 AM
    Quote from: happymurtad on February 04, 2013, 10:58 PM
    I say let them trivialize it. If passing calculus or breastfeeding your infant fulfils your requirement to do “Jihad,” then I say have at it. Whatever will keep our airports, subway stations, and sky scrapers safe is fine with me. Incidentally, Mein Kampf also means “My Struggle.”   

     This. I think it's a pretty transparent attempt to grab the word from extremists and when it's transparent it lacks credibility, but I also can't stand Pamela Geller's hijacking of it to boaster her stupidity.
    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
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  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #12 - February 05, 2013, 05:41 AM
    Just did a google image search and found this (sorry if it is offensive; took a little while for eyes to process that the words had been changed):

  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #13 - February 05, 2013, 05:56 AM
    Ok I'll give them that, that's creative. 
    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTgvK6LQqA
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #14 - February 05, 2013, 07:52 AM
    I have to take issue with the semantics of that bus sign.  If they were trying to speak "the language", they would have written "kaffirs" instead of "kuffars".  Anyone else catch that?  They need to hire an ex-Muslim to their advertising department.  duh.

    But yes, it is creative....and Pamela Gellar is still obnoxious.  True and True.
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #15 - February 05, 2013, 12:00 PM
    Quote from: redriding on February 05, 2013, 05:41 AM
    Just did a google image search and found this (sorry if it is offensive; took a little while for eyes to process that the words had been changed):

    (Clicky for piccy!)


    I don't get it at all. Is it pro-Islam or anti-Islam? Somebody explain it to me!
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #16 - February 05, 2013, 02:09 PM
    Quote from: tabularasa on February 05, 2013, 07:52 AM
    I have to take issue with the semantics of that bus sign.  If they were trying to speak "the language", they would have written "kaffirs" instead of "kuffars".  Anyone else catch that?  They need to hire an ex-Muslim to their advertising department.  duh.

    But yes, it is creative....and Pamela Gellar is still obnoxious.  True and True.


    Yeah the wording is a little off.

    The whole campaign is nauseating, syrupy.
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #17 - February 05, 2013, 07:42 PM
    Al Alethia 

    The original advertisement on that bus was done by Muslims (from the "taking back the word jihad" campaign) and it once said something all nice, flowery and pc about their idea of "Jihad".  But what the picture shows NOW....uh, someone basically took it upon themselves to change the message and plaster over the original one. 

    Hope that clears it up habibti.   Wink
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #18 - February 05, 2013, 09:29 PM
    ^Oh k. Thanks Smiley
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #19 - February 05, 2013, 09:35 PM
    Quote from: redriding on February 05, 2013, 05:41 AM
    Just did a google image search and found this (sorry if it is offensive; took a little while for eyes to process that the words had been changed):

    (Clicky for piccy!)

    Well, if jihad can now mean literally any random spare-of-the-moment thing that a Muslim decides, I suppose that one is equally valid.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #20 - February 20, 2013, 07:48 PM
    I really don't trust CAIR and this campaign is coming from them.

    Historically, jihad has also included warfare against unbelievers (9:29), how can they reform jihad if they won't acknowledge this violent supremacist side of it even exists?
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #21 - February 20, 2013, 08:13 PM
    Are they ignorant? Liars? Both? Or do they just don't want to see the violent side of it because it would cause them to doubt their faith?
    Quote
    "The word 'jihad' literally means struggle, struggle for a good cause," said Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

    "It is a concept, a noble concept, within Islam that emphasizes a personal struggle within yourself to be a better person, a better husband, better wife, better worker, better neighbor," he explained. "It is not aggression, and it does not mean to commit harm against other people. If people commit harm against innocent people, it will be in violation of the spirit of Islam and a violation of the concept of jihad."

    Is he forgetting that the quran says that non-muslims are criminal, unjust, liars, pervert, etc. and therefore we, as non-muslims (and especially all of you as ex-muslims) are considered as non innocent (criminal) by Allah himself? So technically we are not "innocent" in an islamic point of view... IMO.
    If the abrahamic god judged himself according to his own moral standards, he'd go to hell.

    He's jealous, full of pride, he created evil, he doesn't heal sick people while he could, he's attacking people who are weaker than him, he follows his own desires and he commits murders all the time.
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #22 - February 21, 2013, 12:42 AM
    http://www.loonwatch.com/2013/02/arab-muslim-man-refused-entry-to-free-speech-debate-because-of-his-name/

    ^His name was Jihad, and it was a security risk wacko
    Quote from: ZooBear 

    • Surah Al-Fil: In an epic game of Angry Birds, Allah uses birds (that drop pebbles) to destroy an army riding elephants whose intentions were to destroy the Kaaba. No one has beaten the high score.

  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #23 - February 21, 2013, 01:18 AM
    To muslims who are seeking to improve their image I always tell them to do the following:

      -  Speak out against homophobia and support liberal gay muslims who are being persecuted

      -   Speak for the rights of apostates and all religious minorities who are violently persecuted for their beliefs in Islamic countries


    They can't expect people to actually take their "moderate" image seriously if they refuse to do the two things mentioned above.
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #24 - February 21, 2013, 03:22 AM
    It seems to me like even more importantly for true moderate Muslims is that they renounce definitively the idea of warfare against unbelievers, the concept of the dhimma in favor of equality of all citizens before the law and in general any attempt (even by peaceful means) to undermine the separation of church and state in the country they are in or to try to get Sharia law passed in whole or in part.

    Really, if they keep their religion a personal matter and not a political matter, I find it really hard to believe you still see the same level of "Islamophobia".

    It would also help to stop associating with CAIR, ICNA, IFE and all these suspicious propaganda NGOs.

    Oh, and in particular (for YouTuber DawahFilms) it would help if you didn't link to Tafsir Ibn Kathir on your blog. Seriously, you wanna claim to be moderate when you link to a scholar that approves of warfare against unbelievers simply for being unbelievers? But then again DawahFilms is not really moderate. He's been pretty open about restoring the Caliphate and the need to apostates to be executed.

    EDIT: Oh, and it also helps to cease this undying support for the Palestinian Authority just because they are Muslim and Israelis are Jews. Their claims to be fighting injustice has no credibility given that both Hamas and Fatah are religious zealots and Muslim citizens of Israel actually have more rights and individual liberty than in other countries in the Middle East.

    I think the first sign of a genuine moderate is one who isn't hostile to Israel's existence. (And who doesn't hesitate to call out Hamas for their brutality.)
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #25 - February 21, 2013, 03:57 AM
    Quote
    It seems to me like even more importantly for true moderate Muslims is that they renounce definitively the idea of warfare against unbelievers


    If they don't think that in the first place, what do they have to denounce? :/ If you said that to my mum (for example) she'll just look at you all confused. And she's not even moderate, she's religious, but she doesn't know/care about war or politics.

    Dawahfilms is a kookoo head Tongue
    Quote from: ZooBear 

    • Surah Al-Fil: In an epic game of Angry Birds, Allah uses birds (that drop pebbles) to destroy an army riding elephants whose intentions were to destroy the Kaaba. No one has beaten the high score.

  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #26 - February 21, 2013, 04:07 AM
    I'm trying to not cum so fast during sex. #MyJihad

    We should seriously parody those bus ads. 



    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #27 - February 21, 2013, 04:10 AM
    This should be Hamza Tzortzis' next tweet.


    Trying to avoid debating TheRationalizer.   

     #MyJihad
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #28 - February 21, 2013, 04:28 AM
    #MyJihad is exposing CAIR's deceptive #MyJihad campaign. What's yours?
  • Muslims Want Their "Jihad" Back
     Reply #29 - February 21, 2013, 12:02 PM
    BTW,

    Quote from: Jila on February 21, 2013, 03:57 AM
    If they don't think that in the first place, what do they have to denounce? :/ If you said that to my mum (for example) she'll just look at you all confused. And she's not even moderate, she's religious, but she doesn't know/care about war or politics.


    You know I think with is a problem with all religions. People are raised into religions, they rarely choose it, so often they'll miss the fine print.

    For example YouTuber ZOMGitsCriss was Christian until she read the Bible and found that the God of the Bible was anything but "all-loving" as she was lead to believe, so she stopped being Christian. (then again it depends on the individual, Fred Phelps for example didn't leave Christianity, he just embraced its crazy God and now spends all his time preaching fire and brimstone.)

    I dunno how to solve this, maybe if people were raised irreligious (not atheist, just irreligious) and encouraged to know what they're signing up for, we'd see less problems like these, but that's not gonna happen any time soon.
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