Jihad or Hirabah?
June 30th, 2006 . by cary(tip of the old hat to Fix4RSO) (this is updated; I see a lot of blog entries and sometimes the old melon gets soft. Sorry for the confusion)
jihad:
Answers.com “jihad definition”
An individual’s striving for spiritual self-perfection; a Muslim holy war or spiritual struggle against infidels.
hirabah:
No nifty quick search results, so Google “hirabah definition” instead.
One definition: public terrorism in a war against society and civilization
I would like to request that we all start calling what the islamofacists are doing by it’s correct name – hirabah. They certainly are not acting individually; they are striving for global domination, not spiritual self-perfection; their own citizens are not infidels by their definition; and they are most certainly practicing terrorism against their own society and the world’s civilization.
I have referred to it as jihad in the past, rest assured I will change my ways.
God bless you all.
I stand corrected as well.
Cary - I posted on this too, a few days ago. There is a National Defense University project working on getting these words out to the public. Check out my Choose Your Words Wisely post from the 27th …
http://fix4rso.com/2006/06/27/choose-your-words-wisely/
Very good to get this out there! So many misuses of very important words are happening all over …
line - “so use this link” - isn’t working - I’ll change my ways too but am going to have to save this post to my favorites folder for reference.
Al least until I get it memorized…
Interesting Cary. I’ll make a note. Correct me if you see me slip.
Go Navy!
Mary - thanks for stopping by.
Fix - mea culpa. I am so sorry I got my hat tips mixed up. I have corrected the first line.
Your article was the reason I started researching the words, and, with advanced age comes weak memory…
prying1 - For wahtever reason, that link code doesn’t want to work. I’ve changed how it’s worded to the actual search terms I used.
gawfer - it will be my pleasure to help you keep your guard up.
Semper Fi!
Cary - no big. I actually went to the original link to get more for my own post. I suspected that I must have been whacked and also didn’t have all the time to check into your previous H/T. I was kinda at work and supposed to be WORKING not BLOGGING!
Hey, not a problem, Dude. There are soooo many blogs out there, I figured there has to be more than what I posted. And when I saw you were talking about terms, too, I was jazzed to see someone else had found this to be a good thing to post.
(i never noticed the H/T miss-queue …)
Hope everyone is having a great pre-4th of July weekend!!!
Go Air Force!
(i just had to do that once, Gawfer)
What is this “work” of which you speak?
I had been wondering about the term “jihad” for some time, and your post is what got me going on the research, Fix. Thanks for joggling my what-cha-ma-callit - you know, the thing you remember with - memory.
Ooh-Rah!