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1.  THE JIHAD ISN’T ABOUT THE WAR IN IRAQ.

In 1979 America’s president was Jimmy Carter.  By undermining the Shah, Carter had helped the Islamic revolutionaries to sieze power in Iran. Yet one million Iranians,  organized by the revolutionary Islamic regime, filled the streets of Tehran chanting “Death to America.”

 2.  THE JIHAD ISN’T ABOUT ISRAEL.

Significant Jihad groups can be found today in Indonesia, the Phillippines, Thailand, Kashmir, Chechnya, Nigeria, and other countries that have no conceivable quarrel with Israel.  Even the Jihadis’ quarrel with Israel is not about borders or “occupation” but about the expulsion of all non-Islamic peoples from the Middle East. 

3. THE JIHAD ISN’T ABOUT AMERICA.

Long before American troops entered Afganistan and Iraq, the first modern Jihad movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, was founded in Egypt in 1928.  The Jihad ideology that fuels modern terror activity is identical to the Jihad ideology that justified Islam’s aggressive wars for centuries before America existed.

4. THE GOAL OF JIHAD IS WORLD DOMINATION.

The creation of a unified Islamic state, which will ultimately encompass the globe, is the stated goal of Jihad.

5. THE IDEOLOGY OF THE JIHAD TERRORISTS IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN ISLAM.

Today’s jihadis use the Qur’an and the words and deeds of Muhammad to justify their actions.  They present their views as ”pure Islam,” and convince many Muslims that that’s what it is.

6.  THE JIHAD IDEOLOGY DEMANDS THE KILLING OF “INFIDELS” (NON-MUSLIMS) OR THEIR CONVERSION TO ISLAM OR THEIR SUBJUGATION AS INFERIORS UNDER ISLAMIC LAW.

All the orthodox sects of Sunni and Shi’ite Islam, as well as all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, teach the necessity of Jihad warfare and the subjugation of non-Muslims under Islamic law.  Non-Muslims are denied equality of rights under that law in numerous ways.

7.  THE JIHAD IS ADVANCING THROUGH SUBVERSION AS WELL AS VIOLENT MEANS.

Attempts to compel Western governments to adopt laws outlawing blasphemy in the wake of the Danish cartoon riots are part of a larger effort to bring Islamic law to the West and to subordinate its Christian, Jewish, and secular populations to Islam.

8.  THE JIHAD IDEOLOGY INSTITUTIONALIZES THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN.

Islamic law legalizes wife-beating, denies the equality of a woman’s testimony with that of a man, mandates that women are not even to leave the house without permission, along with numerous other oppressive regulations.

9.  THE JIHAD IDEOLOGY INSTITUTIONALIZES THE OPPRESSION OF NON-MUSLIMS.

Under the traditional Islamic law that Jihadis fight to restore, non-Muslims must pay a special tax, not hold authority over Muslims, not build or repair their houses of worship, and many other regulations designed that the “feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29)

10.  THE JIHAD IS A THREAT TO ALL FREE PEOPLE.

The Jihad ideology denies freedom of conscience.  Jihadis take to heart Muhammad’s dictum, “If anyone changes his religion, kill him,” and deny Muslims any freedom to convert or have no religion at all.  The Jihadis would extinguish equality of the sexes, equality of rights before the law, freedom of conscience, and more.  All free people should resist them.