Muslim Brotherhood: Jihad means fighting, not spiritual struggle!

[duluxe]

Islamic scholar and Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood leader Dr. Tareq Al-Suwaidan was interviewed in the August 15, 2025 episode of The Thinking Muslim podcast hosted by Muhammad Jalal. In the podcast, Dr. Al-Suwaidan said that it is only necessary to “train well” 2% of the Muslim youth in the West in order to “overcome” everyone else and precipitate a major social change that would lead the Islamic nation towards a “future civilization.” He said that he believes that currently, “1.5%” have already been affected properly, making the change close, and that in 50 years of dawah experience, he has not encountered a “better” generation than today’s Muslim youth in the West, who he said could “lead” the rise of the East and the subsequent spread of Islam. (For similar statements by Dr. Al-Suwaidan, see MEMRI TV Clip No. 11995.)

He also said that it is clear from the Quran itself that fighting and waging war for the sake of Allah and for the strategic purpose of establishing an Islamic state by force has been a valid principle from the earliest days of Islam. He explained that the Quran’s occasional use of the Arabic word for “fighting” instead of Jihad makes this apparent and precludes the possibility that struggle for the sake of Allah is understood exclusively as a struggle within oneself.

Later in the podcast, he gave the example of how the Prophet Muhammad clearly strove for the establishment of an Islamic state in Medina by having defeated his challenger and by having consolidated legal, religious, economic, military, and political power in the city. He said: “It is very clear that he was ruling and that he was making a state.”…

 

[laksaboy]

Of course. The 'extremists' are the honest ones. Those kumbaya 'peaceful' ones who sugarcoat and downplay everything, they are the dangerous ones.

 

[syed putra]

Why so complicated one. This is what happens when belief in one God becomes a religion. Everyone have their own opinion.