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...public good” much as national security measures do represents the gross Islamist apologism that transcends campus dialogue today. The Iranian Revolution was only like the American Revolution insofar as both were popular revolutions; that the similarities do not extend past this is something I thank God for every...
Tawhid is also understood as the “oneness” of not only humanity, but of God. In Islam, there is only one God, and a person can be a slave of only one God. Hatred, jealousy, anger, infatuation—humans can also become enslaved to all of these passions, and thus these passions can become gods to men. Belief in tawhid negates the legitimacy of these false gods. And a true believer in tawhid is liberated from slavery to his passions. The act of slicing off a man’s head and then holding...
...said that the most important (“greater”) jihad is an internal struggle for perfection, while the less important (“lesser”) jihad is the physical struggle against an enemy. This greater jihad is the struggle to conduct oneself in the way that God would want humans to conduct themselves. Achieving this requires waging a jihad against one’s baser tendencies, such as anger or prejudice. Thus, one who engages in jihad is one who believes in tawhid—he is one who strives to make himself the slave of only...
...baser tendency of self-centeredness is a trait to be overcome by the greater jihad, one who engages in this jihad is concerned not only with perfecting himself, but also with perfecting the world. Just as one must wage jihad to mold oneself into a form with which God would be pleased, one must also wage jihad to mold the world into such a form. Islamic scholar Mahmud Taleqani says that in religious texts, “the term jihad is always attached to the locution ‘fi sabil ilah,’ [in the way of God...
...could argue that the terrorists acted in a godly manner when they killed Bigley. On the contrary, they acted in a way that God would not want them to act. They succumbed to their emotions, and they acted on their prejudices, and the result was that they committed a horrible crime and desecrated the very principles—tawhid and jihad—for which they claimed to be fighting...