Violent Jihad with the Goal of World Domination Is Mainstream in Islam

says Robert Spencer:

In "Jihad Means Much More Than Violence" (Feb. 16), Will Caldwell objects to the David Horowitz Freedom Center's ad, "What Americans Need to Know About Jihad," as "propaganda," and calls for it to be censored. He asserts that "most in our community are educated enough to understand that statements like 'The goal of jihad is world domination' are completely ignorant and intentionally provocative."

Unfortunately, however, jihad as warfare against non-believers in order to institute "Sharia" worldwide is not propaganda or ignorance, or a heretical doctrine held by a tiny minority of extremists. Instead, it is a constant element of mainstream Islamic theology. It is affirmed by all four principal schools of Sunni Muslim jurisprudence (madhahib): the Maliki, Hanafi, Hanbali and Shafi'i, to which the great majority of Muslims worldwide belong, as well as of all the other schools.

These schools formulated laws regarding the importance of jihad and the ways in which it must be practiced, centuries ago. Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (d. 996), a Maliki jurist, declared: "Jihad is a precept of Divine institution?.[Unbelievers] have the alternative of either converting to Islam or paying the poll tax (jizya), short of which war will be declared against them."

continued: The Emory Wheel