RLG204H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sayyid Qutb, Mind Control
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The idea of jihad as defensive war as said by many defeatist individuals does not compute a logical statement. Jihad is not by any means a type of modern warfare. It is, by what islam decrees it to be, a strive in the way of god. The only way to understand jihad-bil-saif physical jihad, we must understand the requirement of the divine law to supersede any man made laws that subjugate and enslave a man beneath other men. The only allowable enslavement should be a person obeying his/her creator. After 9/11 many na muslims realized there are extreme views in regions of asia and. Middle east that preached a secluded islam, one that only cared about upholding islam"s. Purity. these preachers backlashed and named the ones who were against this form of extremism, enemies of islam .
