Islam in America: The Struggle Over Jihad's Meaning | The New York Times

Two opposing groups battle to define the word jihad on public buses and subways.

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Islam in America: The Struggle Over Jihad's Meaning | The New York Times

[chitnisrohit]

Muslims fighting Muslims in Middle east (Shia vs Sunni)
Muslims fighting Christians in Southern Africa, Europe, USA, Russia
Muslims fighting Jews in Israel
Muslims fighting Hindus, Sikhs in India
Muslims fighting Buddhists in Burma, China

Now Muslims will start fights Jedis in the Galactic empire!

[libyanbunnyyy]

Pamela Gellar's Jihad is to keep away from plastic surgery. That's her Jihad. :)

[Arachnoscribe]

The term "Jihad" will not have positive connotations for most Americans, regardless of spins or wishful thinking. That ship has sailed...

[hustler]

Ok then, MY JIHAD IS TO ERRADICATE THIS CONCEPT FROM THIS EARTH...

[Rully_Erlando]

Show me where the verse in Qur'an that states that?

[Menchjah]

We learned jihad's meaning on 9/11, 7/11, Moscow Metro Bombing, Mumbai 2008, etc.

[luzdedio]

#MyJihad is loving everyone, including those who hate my Islam.

[hustler]

Then why this confusion... What is this community doing to erradicate this confusion of terms??

[hindurashtra]

Islam is an Ideology, Muslims are people. I don't hate people, Just the Ideology of Islam. If that makes any sense to you..

[kitchendz]

Meaning of Jihad in Arabic is (fight) fighting for something or because of something, it is derived from the word "Johd" which means effort in Arabic... it has two meaning:1) fitting in a battle eg:(a person who is in a battle needs to fight back, so does Jihad to defend himself from the enemy).

[SuperCodemeister]

Sure. Read the Quran and.see if you change your mind.

[abdiazizmohamed]

Jihad 98% of the time refers to fighting

[somebodysomething]

Wow, I never knew intolerance also came with atrocious grammar.

[Shadow]

Why are non-Muslims discriminating against Muslims? I am having a hard time finding a job because of my Muslim name. It's too late to change my name now because of my college degree. I have never seen any Muslim being racist in my whole life, but I see so many non-Muslims very racists, harassing, and violent.

[AnnaMishel]

Pamela is a hero. You can't whitewash jihad.

[josnaz]

Very well done.

And thanks for uploading.

[cute______________________]

I'm from India 🇮🇳 Delhi se my name Mohammad Irfan

[ABDARRAHMANARRUMI]

DOES THAT MAKE ME A SCORGE OF HUMANITY AND A MAN THAT IS ACTING LIKE ITS THE 14th CENTURY? I FEEL SAD ABOUT YOU. :)

[coilstapped]

Hmmm, so Hitler could have called his book "Mein Jihad"? That's disheartening.

[Marribella]

they discriminate because of 9/11 you can change your name. but i would suggest you not to. because you should be proud to be who you are. If people are racist dont reply to their comments because it shows them how good of a person you are