Islam | The Islamic Doctrine of Jihad Advocates Violence

Radical Islamic movements in general have clearly identified their enemy: the regimes in the Islamic world which practice non-Islamic law; the West which has been undermining Islam from within and corrupting it with its norms of permissiveness in order to totter it and replace it; and Israel-Zionism—the Jews, who are intrinsically the enemies of Allah and humanity, in addition to their being an arm of the West in the heart of the Islamic world. The enemy must be depicted in evil terms so as to make it a free prey for Muslims to attack and destroy. Rhetorical delegitimation of their...

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