Average Quote by Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

— John O. Brennan

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

The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather…

— Anonymous

Jihad is not holy war

— Lupe Fiasco

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

— Asghar Ali Engineer

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

— Pat Robertson

Whether you call it radical jihadism or radical Islamism, I think they mean the same thing. I'm happy to say either.

— Hillary Clinton

“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

There must be a very clear understanding that you cannot work for peace if you are not ready to struggle. And this is the…

— Tariq Ramadan

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

— Marvin Olasky

The greatest JIHAD/STRIVE is to battle your own soul,to fight the evil within yourself. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

— Ismail