Quotes About Best Jihad

#1. The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

Muhammad

#2. A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

Aslan Maskhadov

#3. There was one thing the experience had taught him. He said he'd learned that when millions of people, a whole political system, countless numbers of citizens who believed in God, said they were going to kill you - just listen to them.

Terry Hayes

#4. Instead of an outer-oriented jihad - defined as "the war against infidels" and carried out by many in those days just as in the present - Rumi stood up for an inner-oriented jihad where the aim was to struggle against and ultimately prevail over one's ego, nafs.

Elif Shafak

#5. We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are - ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.

Benjamin Carson

#6. The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.

Bernard Lewis

#7. There's no question that jihad historically means war.

Pat Robertson

#8. The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.

Richard Engel

#9. In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he may join a militant jihad and educated women as a rule, tend to withhold their blessings from such things.

Greg Mortenson

#10. In principle ... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

Walid Muallem

#11. Hazrat Abu Darda'a said: He who thinks that to go at dawn in search of knowledge is not jihad is deficient in intellect.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#12. [T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.

Christopher Hitchens

#13. The hearts of the people of Muslim countries are beating with the call of jihad.

Osama Bin Laden

#14. Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

John O. Brennan

#15. The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Abu Bakr

#16. Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#17. The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8)

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#18. The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

Bassam Tibi

#19. To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

Abu Bakr

#20. Let's go and do jihad

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#21. Did you hear this? They say now Osama bin Laden and his buddy Mullah Omar have left Afghanistan dressed as women. They dressed up as women and went across the border into Pakistan. I think they're going to make a movie about it. They're going to call it 'Some like it Jihad.'

David Letterman

#22. If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

Ted Cruz

#23. If the instigation for jihad [holy war] against the Jews and the Americans ... is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal.

Osama Bin Laden

#24. For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Richard Engel

#25. Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

Farnaz Fassihi

#26. If you join ISIS, if you wage jihad on America, then you are signing your death warrant.

Ted Cruz

#27. [Taliban spokesman on Malala Yousafzai]
Malala Yousafzai targeted and criticized Islam. She was against Islam and we tried to kill her, and if we get a chance again we will definitely try to kill her, and we will feel proud killing her.

Shahidullah Shahid

#28. The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.

Michael Medved

#29. I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad ... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.

Mohammed Omar

#30. In Islam, it is the "moderate" who is left to split hairs,
because the basic thrust of the doctrine is undeniable: convert, sub-
jugate, or kill unbelievers; kill apostates; and conquer the world.

Sam Harris

#31. If you look at groups in the Palestine region, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic jihad, more often than not in their first operations they would accidentally blow themselves up on the way to the target or the bomb wouldn't go off.

Michael Scheuer

#32. Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

Arthur Hertzberg