Mehdi Hasan: Only “the terrorists and the Islamophobes” say that jihad “refers to violence”

[rangerrebew]

Mehdi Hasan: Only “the terrorists and the Islamophobes” say that jihad “refers to violence”

July 8, 2017 12:26 pm By Robert Spencer 15 Comments

In the wake of Linda Sarsour’s declaration of jihad against President Trump, Leftists and Islamic supremacists have been taking the line that only “Muslim extremists” and “Islamophobes” say that jihad involves violence:

Hamas-linked CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush said much the same thing:

The clear intention here is not just to intimidate people into dismissing the idea that jihad involves violence, for fear of allying with hated groups, but also to liken foes of jihad terror to its proponents, thereby stigmatizing resistance to jihad terror as “far-right extremism.”

There is just one obstacle to this objective: the truth. One can easily get the impression that jihad involves violence not just from terrorists and “Islamophobes,” but from the authoritative sources in Sunni Islam, the schools of Sunni jurisprudence (madhahib):

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/mehdi-hasan-only-the-terrorists-and-the-islamophobes-say-that-jihad-refers-to-violence

[Fishrrman]

Taqiyya...

[The_Reader_David]

Send the man a copy of The Reliance of the Traveller, the principal Sunni commentary on sharia.  The whole ninth chapter is devoted to jihad, and although its author accepts the hadith the characterized warfare against non-Muslims as "the lesser jihad" and spiritual struggle against one's own passions or sinfulness as "the greater jihad" -- a hadith some other classical commentators regard as dubious -- the whole rest of the chapter is about warfare against non-Muslims.