Jewish Jihad is Better
August 1, 2007, 9:56 am |
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by Steven Shamrak
Many Muslim mullahs, imams and terrorist chiefs have been igniting their followers by the word “Jihad” – Holy War. Even the leaders of some Muslim countries are not able to resist temptation. Their true intent is a war against everything that is un-Islamic. Any infidel, not just Jews, any non-Islamic country is a target. Even Muslim countries that allow some flexibility, freedom and personal rights that are not in line with hard-core Islamic doctrine are considered as blasphemous and also are targeted.
Sometimes, in order to disguise the actual aggressive nature of Islamic Jihad, Muslim leaders say that they are misunderstood. They say that Jihad has nothing to do with terror and the desire for world domination by Islam; rather it is a call for the inner struggle of an individual Muslim. Little do they know that the concept of “inner struggle” is a deep spiritual idea of Judaism and Jewish spiritual teaching.
Every year Jews celebrate the exodus from Egypt. Most Jews celebrate Pesach (Passover) as the freedom Jews had obtained from physical slavery in Egypt, some 3,300 years ago. Not many remember or know that the Passover reminds us that internal freedom of mind and spirit is even more important.
Unfortunately, even so many years after the creation of the independent Jewish State, many Jews are still living in inner mental slavery. We are constantly living under the fear of “THEM”: “What will they think?” “This is current reality, they will not allow us to…” — these are the questions that continuously sabotage our efforts to obtain true sovereignty, end endless torture, or end Arabs’ terror that is unleashed on Israel and is artificially fostered by international hypocrisy.
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We neglect our own right to the unity of Jewish land. Our right to self-determination is forgotten and regularly abused. Our right to live in peace in our own country is non-existent! At the same time many Jews support the fictional people — ‘Palestinians’, who were created for one reason only — to destroy Israel!
It is time for the Jewish people to shake off the “Mitzraim” (internal slavery) and declare our own Jihad! This is the fight against self-doubt, self-hate and lack of self-respect. We must unite the Jewish nation, get rid of our enemies, and reunite our land! Only when we start to believe in ourselves will the respect from ‘THEM’ follow. As you can see, Jihad is good when it is properly used. So, let’s start a Jewish ‘Jihad’. It will be good for us!
Related: Israel, War Against Islamo-fascism, Judaism, Philosophy / Ideology
August 1st, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Steven, while I share your zeal for Jews to cast off their restraints of various fears and self doubts and unite in common cause to demand and if not granted to take our right of self determination.
What you propose requires leadership to not only show all Jews the way but move all Jews to put aside their theological and philosophical differences to unite under the banner of one overall common or universal belief in Judaism and Jewish culture.
It will take a great leader with the legenday wisdom of Solomon to establish such common ground upon which all Jews can come together.
I see no such leader on the horizon.
As for these restraints of fear and self doubt that you speak of, they are not just self imposed that by a trick of the mind we can rid ourselves of them to rise up together.
Your enthusiasm for better is shared by a very great many and such enthusiam shared by many can make things better for many more, but not so better as you speak of.
As with most things in life, bringing Jews together in their own common cause it is not nearly as simple as it looks. As well, don’t forget the truism, I have heard time and again and at times lived it, “Tsis Shver tsu Zein ah Yid”.
You just have to keep fighting back with a never give up attitude.
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:55 pm
This lack of leadership is not uncommon in the West now. The only exceptional leader coming to power recently in the democracies is Nicolas Sarkozy.
I’d like to keep on the hopeful side of things. If it can happen in France, then maybe it’ll happen in the U.S. and Israel.
Of course, it is up to the electorate(s) to find, support, and vote for good leaders…