ISLAMIC OBSERVATIONS ... 2

ISLAMIC OBSERVATIONS ... 2

Jihad is not just fundamental to the Taliban world view, it is fundamental to the Islamic world view as per the dictates of the Qur'an and the Sahih Hadees. Jihad is mandatory in Islam, that too of one's own volition with enthusiasm and participatory enterprise. Anyone who passively submits to being a jihadist is deemed a Munafiq or a hypocrite who in the eyes of Allah is the worst offender to be cast into Jahannum (Islamic Hell) where his flesh will fuel the infernal fire. Jihad is the core of Islam which, being the religiopolitical system that it is, mandates it to bring the infidel world to its fold or hold it in servitude as dhimmi (zimmi). There is nothing called radical Islam. Islam itself is wholesale a radical political system, a Deen whose determination is to dominate the world through forced conversion if need be, massacre in case of resistance and impose the Sharia by way of final earthly settlement of Allah's servants (bandā) and the kuffār (infidels).

Written by Sugata Bose