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RE:Islam Means Peace..!!
by Devavrata Satya on Jul 28, 2008 06:56 AM

Mr. Ismail Khan,

Yes, Jihad means striving for a holy cause. And what is the holy cause? To spread the message of Islam and ensure that all worship is for Allah alone. In other words, extunguishing other religions from the face of the earth, and converting Dar-ul-harb into Dar-ul-Islam by any means possible.

This is quite opposite to what Krishna was advising Arjuna about in the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna was not telling him to fight the Kauravas because they belonged to a different religion and had to be converted or killed. Krishna was telling him to fight them for the sake of protecting Dharma - the rule of righteousness.

So in Hinduism, fighting is encouraged to protect and establish righteousness. In Islam, righteousness is defined as belief in Allah and Muhammad, and those refusing to submit are evil by default. That is the difference.

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