Jihad and Mujadah, or war against Unbelievers is a duty for Moslems

Jihad is an Arabic word which means ‘to wage war’.  It does not mean ‘to strive’ in contemplation on the immaterial and spiritual.  It is a physical, material and direct invocation to violence.  ‘Jihad’ is etymologically derived from the word mujahada, which means in Arabic to wage war to establish dominance.  There are two wars for the pious Muslim, one is against the carnal material self.  The most important is against those who oppose the cult of Muhammad.  This is a pillar of Muhammadanism, and after veneration of Muhammad and his Al Lah moon or celestial idol, the second most important.

Encyclopaedia Britannica:

mujāhadah, (Arabic: “striving”), in Sufism, struggle with the carnal self; the word is related to jihad (struggle), which is often understood as “holy war.” The Sufis refer to mujāhadah as al-jihād al-akbar (the greater war) in contrast to al-jihād al-aṣghar (the minor war), which is waged against unbelievers. It is one of the major duties that a Sufi must perform throughout his mystical journey toward union with God.

Mujahedin, or soldiers of the mujahada, are 'warriors of Jihad'.  Jihad as 'war' is declaimed by Moslems, including their war mongering founder, to be the 'lesser' Jihad. The 'greater' Jihad is considered as a form of spiritual warfare against the lower self, (nafs). Muhammad supposedly said as he was returning from Jihad, “We have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad”.  When the usual apologists whine that Jihad means a spiritual struggle, they are only partially correct and ignorant of the totality of its meaning.  Jihad is 2 parts – internal and external.  The entire Koran and Hadiths are calls to Jihad, most of these are of course obligations to wage war against non-Moslems.

There are about 1600 verses of violence in the Koran which identify and command Muslims to perform external or violent Jihad in one way or another. Demanding Jihad as a 'duty' from Moslem cult members can be found in Koranic verses such as:

1) Fighting is prescribed for you (2:216)

2) Slay them wherever you find them (4:89)

3) Fight the idolaters utterly (9:36)

Jihad and Muslim ‘holy’ war is the '6^th pillar' of Islam and is an obligation incumbent upon all Moslems. Bukhari's Hadiths, or commentary on Muhammad's life, make Jihad even more pronounced as a duty. In fact Jihad, or warring against Unbelievers, is deemed to be in the top 2 or 3 duties of a Moslem [see for eg. Book 1 of Bukhari, here and here]. Bukhari writes:

“I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and perform the prayer, and pay zakat. If they say it, they have saved their blood and possessions from me, except for the rights of Islam over them. And their final reckoning is with Allah''; and the Hadith reported by Muslim which finds many echoes in Bukhari,

“To go forth in the morning or evening to fight in the path of Allah is better than the whole world and everything in it.''

Muhammad's entire 'career' was one of Jihad, plunder, murder, killing, war, sex-slaving and enriching himself. He was murdered by his own men [not a Jewess doctor], tired of 'revelations' from a fat man covered in gold and silver, ensconced with a harem. He fought in some 29 battles and ordered nearly 60 more expeditions of pillage and Jihad. Calling the leader of this Moslem Jihadi cult a 'prophet' is about as intelligent as calling Herr Hitler a spiritual counsellor. Stating that Jihad is some form of spiritual struggle whilst ignoring its real meaning as an obligation to wage war, is simply insufferable ignorance.