Islamic Jihad Research Paper

Asoo Othman

Dr. Ceron

ENG203

November 7-2016

Islamic Jihad in the Past and Today Jihad is usually connected with Islam and Muslims, but in all religions, such as Christianity, Judaism and political and economic ideologies which are Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, the idea of Jihad is found on them .Jihad is the concept that mentions in Quran 41 times, and it is the motivation term that encouraged Islamic people to rise the Islamic state or Political Islam in 19th and 20th Centuries. Jihadist refers to the person who believed that Islam must govern whole Islamic state and anyone who wants to prevent it, they should kill them and create violence. There are many confusing ideas about the word of Jihad between now and in the past. In the past,

Also, God chose Muhamad, who is a Prophet of Islam and he is the final Prophet, to spread Islam to the world. At that time, people did not know Islamic religion well, but Prophet Mohammed tried hard to extend Islam religion. At the begging, Mohammed in Macca started sharing the idea of Islam and indicating the advantages of Islam religion. Even though Mohammed wanted to share the Islam plan and rules, there were many reasons that blocked Islam to spread. First, people in Macca believed that this type of religion Mohammed created, and Mohammed wanted to get advantages from it, so that is why he tried to spread this religion. Consequently, many people tried hard to attack Mohammed and they wanted to kill him. Year by year, the Islamic population increased, and they worked hard to convert non-Muslim to be Muslim, so Islam fought for this and it’s called Jihad. According to Quran Jihad is that” striving to achieve a goal, while the Quranic definition of the word is “striving with one’s self and one’s money in the cause of God””(God). It means that jihad in the origin of God is a strive to preach and support God’s way and God’s Law. Moreover, God does not mention that in the Quran that if non-Muslim does not accept Islamic rules, they should be killed since God does not allow unlawful killing and violence. For example, Mohammed in Madina had Jewish neighbor, and he made an agreement with them

Many groups or gangs such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS killed many people under the word of Jihad, especially Christianity, Jewish, or any non-Islamic religion. Jihad is not a declaration of war against other religions because warfare under the name of God is not exclusive or refer to Islam. Moreover, many powerful countries around the world create some dangerous group for their own advantages and they tried to aid them. For example, Turkish government helps ISIS because ISIS controls Mosel, which is the big country in Iraq and Mosel is rich from its oil, so Turkish gets oil by the low price and doing other businesses with them. As the former ISIS member said that” He explained that heavily armed ISIS fighters were allowed to freely cross the NATO member’s border, and ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks”. Consequently, this quote indicates that ISIS has many corporations with other countries around the