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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Jihad is misused by fundamentalists. The Quranic meaning is not meant for war at all, in the sense of killing.

— Asghar Ali Engineer

Jihad is described as a war against Muslims, to establish the religion.

— Mark Durie

“Jihad,” in Arabic, means “the struggle.” There are two types in Islam, the greater and the lesser. Both are seen as noble. The greater…

— Amanda Lindhout

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

— John O. Brennan

But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the…

— Reza Aslan

Jihad is not holy war

— Lupe Fiasco

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

— Pat Robertson

The reason that Islamist militants can assert that jihad is necessary against the perceived enemies of Islam is that there is sufficient ammunition in…

— Peter Bergen

“What, then, is Jihad? Dr. Gabriel was an Imam of a mosque in Gaza, Egypt, and a respected professor at Al-Azhar University in Cairo,…

— John Price

“Although the word Jihad standing by itself means “struggle,” what Westerners need to focus on when reading the Hadith regarding Mohammed’s Jihad is similar…

— Walid Shoebat

No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is…

— Rashid al-Ghannushi