One definition of "jihad" is "struggle"

[eleny]

Someone just called in to the Mike Webb radio show and talked about this. So I looked it up. I guess W has now taken us into jihad. Sheesh.
http://www.answers.com/topic/jihad Apologies if this was already discussed.

[Wetzelbill]

1. I'm struggling to reach 4500 posts tonight

that's my jihad. :)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

3. It's a Jihad for me to get up in the morning

or to go to bed at night.

[southlandshari]

7. Fellow insomniac!

:hug:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

16. Hey...

:hi: :hug:

[Erika]

2. Yeah. Bush says we are no longer in a war on terrorism

We are in a struggle against extremists. Our poor troops. What a mind game he is playing on them.

[stewarde]

4. our poor troops period...

we obviously have no business being in Iraq. We should be in Afghanistan where that one guy who killed 3000 Americans 4 years ago is hiding out, but we make no attmept to get him at all...

What was his name again...

oh yeah OSAMA BIN LADEN!

[eleny]

5. Yeah, I wonder what the pay is for making jihad?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

15. Now we REALLY have a lot of wars to fight.

I guess Randall Terry is going to jail, along with a lot of fundies.

[gumby]

6. Heard Randi talk about this today (& posted earlier)

struggle = jihad in Arabic
struggle = kampf in German; as in My Struggle = 'Mein Kamph'

So Commander Bunnypants' has gone from a "Crusade" to a Jihad in 'His Struggle' to take over the world.

As Rush sez, "Words mean things." :scared: :grr:

edit: since it's not a 'war' but a 'struggle,' then there's no war crimes, right? Struggles are hard work, but they aren't wars. Struggles last for a long time, and cost lots and lots of money, but they aren't nasty wars. Besides 'struggle' polls better than 'war.'

How about the "Struggle on Drugs"?

[Erika]

9. Politically, the only thing that keeps me going is that

Bush is one day closer to getting out of office and taking his country club elitists with him.

[Erika]

11. Yeah, Bush says we are no longer in a war against terror

Want to throw that on our troops that they are now in a struggle against extremists?

[stevietheman]

13. But nobody at the Hague will respect...

the war in Iraq as a "struggle". At best for Bush, that was a war within a struggle. An illegal naked war of aggression within a struggle. An illegal naked war of aggression that turned out to have nothing to do with that struggle.

Man, even if Bush isn't brought down for all this, history will fry his arse.

[Guaranteed]

8. So is "Kampf," right? nt

[gumby]

12. From Wikipedia

...His Nazi publisher, Max Amann, decided this title was too complicated and had it shortened to Mein Kampf (simply "My Struggle", or "My Battle").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf

[sam sarrha]

10. i like the photo.. Dubya will chase anything in a skirt..

:pals:

[eleny]

14. look close - they're both him

[moodforaday]

17. So * is now a "Jihad president" n/t