Jihad: Bukhari and Muslim (the main Hadiths in Islam, part of the ‘holy’ texts with the Koran and the Sira – biography of Mohamad) have over 600 references to Jihad, as the publisher of Bukhari’s Hadiths states:
“Jihad is holy fighting in Allah’s Cause, with full force of weaponry. It is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its Pillars. By Jihad, Islam is established, Allah is made superior and He becomes the only God who may be worshipped. By Jihad, Islam is propagated and made superior. By abandoning Jihad (may Allah protect us from that), Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position, there honor is lost, their lands are stolen and Muslim rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape this duty dies as a hypocrite.” (“For Allah’s Cause” in Zakat, for the Jihadists)
Jihad can take many forms although the violent means is the most honored according to Mohammad; Jihad of ‘pen, heart (mouth) and wealth.’ There’s legal Jihad to keep books about Islam (especially ones about funding Islamic terrorists) from being published; there’s Jihad through phony ‘inter-faith dialogs’ (da’wa) and using taqiyya and kitman (lies, obfuscations, or not giving all the details), there’s Jihad in getting everyone to accommodate and accept all those ‘cultural’ bits of Islam (treatment of females, clothing, segregation of sexes), and then…we come to Shariah-compliant finance and Zakat.
