RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS

ISLAMIC EXTREMISM

Content

Introduction

CHAPTER 1. Sources of Islamic Law

CHAPTER 2. Definition of the term "jihad"

CHAPTER 3. The Development of the Doctrine of Jihad

CHAPTER 4. Muslim Sources on the "Jihad of the Sword"

4. 1. Quotes That "Jihad of the Sword" Is the Highest Goal of a Muslim

4. 2. Quotes About Types of Sword Jihad

4. 3. Quotes about the reward for jihad

4. 4. Quotes about who jihad is directed against

4. 5. Quotes on who can and should participate in jihad

4. 6. Quotes on who can declare jihad

Conclusion

Bibliography

Introduction

"Islamic history is written with the blood of shaheeds, the stories of shaheeds, and the examples of shaheeds."

(Shaykh Abdullah Azzam) 1.

"Terrorism has no national or religious affiliation." Again and again, this thesis is reproduced by politicians and public figures. It is reproduced so often that it seems as if the speakers are trying to convince us of what they themselves do not really believe in. Or perhaps they do, but over and over again they repeat this incantation, this magical formula that is supposed to banish the ghost of fear from the consciousness of the philistine. But in a strange way, in the consciousness of the philistine, the place of belief that "all people are brothers" is increasingly occupied by ideas of a completely opposite direction.

High political figures are far from sinless either. President Bush has already apologized to Muslims for their "hasty" declaration of a "war on Islamic terrorism." The President of Russia, in turn, let slip that the goal of the "rootless and unbelieving" terrorists is to create the Great Caliphate. However, no matter how much politicians repeat that a terrorist is a criminal without a clan and tribe, interethnic and interfaith contradictions remain the invariable background for their statements. Extremism and terrorism are no more acute problem for modern society. And there is no problem more delicate and painful than the connection of extremism and terrorism with national and religious affiliation.2