Friday, December 14, 2012

CAIR Launches “My Jihad” PR Campaign To Dispel Notion Jihad Means Violent Warfare



Note that they're not disavowing or condemning violent Jihad. They are simply saying, violent Jihad is "not the entirety of the story."
An Islamic-advocacy group linked to terrorism is launching a public-relations campaign to argue that jihad doesn’t mean Islamic holy war, but instead a “concerted effort … with the purpose of getting to a better place.” 
However, the campaign, which is being launched Dec. 14 by an affiliate of the Council on American Islamic Relations, isn’t a formal religious declaration by United States or Arab Islamic authorities, and it does clash with orthodox judgments dating back 1,400 years to the beginning of Islam. 
“It is [public] education about what we believe,” said Ahmed Rehab, who serves as the founder of the project, head of CAIR’s Chicago affiliate and CAIR’s strategic communications chief. 
The views of jihad groups, Salafi activists in Egypt and of the Arab world’s leading preacher, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, “are not the entirety of the story,” Rehab told The Daily Caller on Thursday. 
Those orthodox views of jihad as warfare to spread Islam are being championed by a new wave of Islamic revivalists — including numerous jihadi groups, such as the “Jamaat al-Tawhid wa’l-Jihad” terror group in the Gaza strip. [...] 
In contrast, Rehab’s “MyJihad” public-relations campaign portrays jihad as “a concerted and noble effort against injustice, hate, misunderstanding, war, violence, poverty, hunger, abuse or whatever challenge big or small we face in daily life, with the purpose of getting to a better place,” according to the campaign’s website, MyJihad.org.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

ji·had

/jiˈhäd/

Noun

1.(among Muslims) A war or struggle against unbelievers.
2.The spiritual struggle within oneself against sin.



Is that the same 'Ahmed Rehad' who left for Egypt at the start of the revolution to help the Muslim Brotherhood in to power?

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/cairs-ahmed-rehab-goes-to-egypt-to-participate-in-protests/

James Baker said...

In all fairness, you should change the title, as CAIR announced the #MyJihad campaign, but it is not a facet of CAIR, rather a project put together by Ahmed Rehab who coincidentally works for CAIR

Pastorius said...

Yes, it's a CAIR-affiliate.

Nicoenarg said...

Jihad literally means "struggle". But hey, all of us on IBA know that. Islam literally just means "submission". But just like anything else we take these words in their proper context.

Islam is not satisfied if you just submit to yourself. No, you have to submit in the proper way, to the will of Allah. It is inherently understood to be so by Muslims. Its only the Western so-called "scholars" who try to justify and make sense out of these words other than what they really mean.

Likewise, Jihad means struggle but struggle against whom? Obviously against those who go against the will of Allah, i.e., submission to Allah aka Islam. Ah, see how that came full circle? Again, how must you struggle?

Well you are to take up arms, again, according to Islam. There is spiritual Jihad or struggle against one's own sins but that is for times when there is no on going war. War according to whom? Well again, its war according to what Islam calls war. And what is that? As long as there are people who do not submit to Allah's will, there will be war against them. And it is a defensive war because the infidels, just by not embracing the will of Allah, have already declared war on Allah.

So what do the dear brainless Muslims need to do? Take up arms. If you can't take up arms, then fund the war effort (zakah and other means) and the only reasons you are forgiven for not taking part in Jihad is either if your parents are sick and you have to take care of them or you are disabled. In the latter case though, if you have money, you need to fund Jihad.

So what am I going on about? Nothing, just calling BS on this effort. But it doesn't matter what I or others here at IBA say, if 3000 people being murdered in the name of Allah didn't get the common sense juices going in people's brains, nothing is going to do it.

Let's not forget that 12 million people were killed in concentration camps yet there were anti war protests in the streets of the US. Muslims will always have the advantage of there being leftards and idiots in our own midst.

Always On Watch said...

Ye, gods!

The whitewash of Islam and now the whitewash of jihad.

Surreal.

Inversionism.

Nicoenarg said...

Haha Pasto.

Your post is more powerful and true than all the words I wrote above.

Pastorius said...

I guess the reductionist approach works when it comes to Islam, cuz Islam is so fucking stupid.