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	Religion of the Jahiliya - Jihadism is Kufr, not Islam
		Religion of the Jahiliya - Jihadism is Kufr, not Islam
		But it can at best be described as Jihadism as its central belief system is based on a wilful misinterpretation of the Islamic concept of Jihad.
		The Pakistan Army is determined to change the very character of Islam, turning it into the pre-Islamic religion of the Jahiliya [Arabia in the Dark Ages].
	www.islamfortoday.com /shaheen01.htm (4842 words)

	Guardian \| This man may become our nemesis
		Their condition was one of ignorance - jahiliya - a word which also carries connotations of paganism and arrogance.
		Modern Islamic ideologues have given jahiliya a new definition: for them it refers to the present condition of Islam, in which the people are ignorant and their rulers have effectively apostasised.
		Though Qutb never explicitly advocated violence, the myth of the jahiliya state, supported by the west, sustains Islamist militants from Algeria to the Philippines.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4274018-108952,00.html (740 words)

	The Daily Princetonian - 'Jahiliya,' fundamentalism characterize Saudi Arabia
		Most people in the West are not familiar with the concept of jahiliya.
		Jahiliya refers to the period of time prior to the advent of Islam in the seventh century.
		The Islamic world and Muslims in the West need to press this totalitarian regime to abandon its oppression, and corruption, no matter how central the country is to the Muslim faith.
	www.dailyprincetonian.com /archives/2003/02/07/opinion/7227.shtml (938 words)

	Islam in America, Ijtihad, Muslims in America, Tribalism, Muslim Nationalism, Muqtedar Khan,
		It is my contention that one of the most significant elements of the revelation of Islam and the transformation from Jahiliya to Islam, is the transcendence of narrow identities.
		In other words, the journey from Jahiliya to Islam is also a movement away from tribalism and towards universalism.
		Unfortunately tribalism, the instinct to privilege identities based on ethnic and place-specific origins, has proved to be one of the greatest enemies of Islam.
	www.ijtihad.org /tribal.htm (1048 words)

	Al-Qaeda's Egyptian Prophet: Sayyid Qutb and the War On Jahiliya
		To Qutb, jahiliya meant the modern forces of "ignorance," the secularism of both the western capitalists and the eastern communists.
		By reminding Muslims of their duty to reform jahiliya, Qutb was able to refute what many Islamic scholars had interpreted as the essentially defensive nature of jihad.
		The world of jahiliya was to be confronted with "appropriate means," rather than the dark brutality of Azzam's disciple, Osama bin Laden.
	jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=23409 (1136 words)

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		Contrary to the history of the west, where the age of religion is regarded as the ‘dark age’, Muslims have divided their history into the period of ‘Jahiliya’ (ignorance) and the period of Islam.
		The criterion that marked the distinction between Islam and ‘Jahiliya’ is not merely a teaching of a few words or disciplines.
		The term ‘Jahiliya’ does not refer to an illiterate person, for such man there is another word ‘Jihala’.
	www.world-federation.org /Secretariat/TConFri/tconfri_purpose_education_islamic_view.htm (949 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation
		To Qutb, jahiliya meant the modern forces of "ignorance," the secularism of both the western capitalists and the eastern communists.
		By reminding Muslims of their duty to reform jahiliya, Qutb was able to refute what many Islamic scholars had interpreted as the essentially defensive nature of jihad.
		The world of jahiliya was to be confronted with "appropriate means," rather than the dark brutality of Azzam's disciple, Osama bin Laden.
	www.jamestown.org /print_friendly.php?volume_id=391&issue_id=2877&article_id=23409 (1056 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		During this Jahiliya period (the period before the advent of Islam where idle worship and godlessness defined the "moral" order), kidnappings were quite frequent with males being a particularly prized asset.
		The Prophet was fought left, right and centre by established Jahiliya Arab interests, the latter unleashed barbaric violence on and subjected physical torture to, Muslim faithfuls particularly the hostages.
		This is not to suggest that the vast majority of Arab Muslims around the world are still inclined to invoke this Jahiliya practice, nor is it implied here that this predisposition is particularly an Arab phenomenon.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/1998/240898/Comment/Comment0.html (2046 words)

	Islam Watch - "Why Muslims are a Threat to the Western society?" by Alamgir Hussain
		The history, culture and tradition, prior to Islam is unworthy - an era known as the age of Jahiliya (ignorance) in Islam.
		The extra-Islam tradition, culture and ways of life are the extension from the Jahiliya age and contrary to the wishes of almighty creator, Allah.
		Shashi R Sharma writes on the advent of Islamic theology in the 7th century Arabia, "In one fell stroke of theology, the accumulated vision of mankind in every other part of the globe - its most cherished cultural and intellectual acquisition - are consigned to a state of utterly forgettable decadence.
	www.islam-watch.org /AlamgirHussain/IslamWest/IW9Threat2West.htm (1689 words)

	GIVE & TAKE: Sex and the politics of pleasure - NI 158 - Sons and daughters of Islam
		Yet 'Ia ikraa fi'd deen' is one of the most important principles of the Qu'ran: 'Let there be no compulsion in religion.' If you have to force a person to believe, it's a waste of time: their hearts won't be in it.
		She is regarded as putting her virginity at risk by wanting a higher education: the men in class may ogle her, may desire her; may, being the brutes they are, want to waylay her: it would all be her fault.
		The lapse back into the Jahiliya mentality is so complete that even these words of the Prophet are seen as a formula for evil: 'The acquisition of knowledge is incumbent upon every Muslim man and every Muslim woman.
	www.newint.org /issue158/sons.htm (1400 words)

	Family ties in Islam (Wasat, Islamic Forum)
		Ties of blood were given importance in the jahiliya (life before Islam), but this didn't really include women - the "causes" or "links" in family ties.
		Inheritance customs of the jahiliya dictated that the male relatives - those most capable of fighting and defending the family - took everything even if the deceased left a wife and children.
		Islam came and changed all this and while confirming the blood ties respected in the jahiliya, Islam put much more focus on the women and gave them their rights of property, inheritance, etc., prevented their murder and named family ties after them by using the word for "womb".
	s12.invisionfree.com /Wasat/ar/t2382.htm (739 words)

	Islam: The Cure for Societal Ills (Islaam.Com) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jahiliya is an Arabic word that means ignorance.
		It is used to describe the period that proceeded the sending of the Prophet Muhammad as this was a period of ignorance or jahiliya.
		Hence anything that is outside of the guidance that the Prophet Muhammad brought is therefore jahiliya or ignorance.
	www.islaam.com /Article.aspx?id=645 (3635 words)

	Mahjoor Quran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, singing folk songs and "Mary had a little lamb" is different to the supposed Jahiliya poems allegedly uttered by and for the kings of the Arabs and which gave prestige to whoever has the ability to mechanically utter verses that rhyme.
		Traditionalists have countered the doubts in the authenticity of Jahiliya poetry by arguing that the oral transmission of Jahiliya poetry was like the transmission of the great reading and hence both are preserved in the same way.
		Unlike alleged Jahiliya poetry where there is a complete absence of manuscripts and inscriptions, there are many early manuscripts of the great reading that can be dated to the first century of the new era.
	www.pkblogs.com /mahjoorquran (19762 words)

	Free-Minds, a place to discover Islam based on GOD Alone
		According to traditions, alleged Jahiliya Arabic poets were respected and their poems were highly sought after.
		However, singing folk songs and "Mary had a little lamb" is different to the supposed Jahiliya poems allegedly uttered by and for the kings of the Arabs and which gave prestige to whoever has the ability to mechanically utter verses that rhyme.
		Unlike alleged Jahiliya poetry where there is a complete absence of manuscripts and inscriptions, there are many early manuscripts of the great reading that can be dated to the first century of the new era.
	free-minds.org /articles/science/language.htm (8560 words)

	killing the tempest
		Blystur's pierce grazes the ghost of the Tempest.
		Jahiliya's kick misses the ghost of the Tempest.
		Your pierce maims the ghost of the Tempest.
	www.finalchallenge.net /tfc/community/marisa/tempest.html (1281 words)

	News \| Telegraph
		Most of the radical Islamist movements which have been waging wars against governments deemed to be too secular or pro-Western are beholden to the Egyptian scholar's ideas.
		Crucial to his thinking was the new meaning he gave to the word jahiliya or "ignorance".
		For Qutb, however, jahiliya refers not to the condition of pre-Islamic Arabs, but to the present condition of Islam, in which the people are ignorant and the rulers have effectively apostasised from true Islam.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/campaigns/islam/nislam17.xml (518 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Opinion \| Towards a discourse of inclusion
		Religion, to some, is one of various modes of "behaviour" that come to make up a given culture; it is an amalgamation of inherited customs and traditions that evolves over time, sometimes through contact with other cultures, religions and, perhaps, non-religious aspects of those cultures.
		From the outset of the dissemination of the call of Prophet Mohamed there was a conscientious drive to retain what were regarded as the virtues and praiseworthy forms of behaviour of the jahiliya period and to transform or uproot those that were regarded as immoral and pernicious.
		Since then moderate Muslims, cognizant of the spirit of Islam and its preference for peaceful means of dissemination, continued to operate on the basis of this "realistic" approach.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2006/821/op5.htm (919 words)

	Faces from the Front: American Marines in Iraq - Al Qaida's Best Media Spin: The Myth of A Truce (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The revolutionary Islam of Mawdudi et.al., urges a return to the roots of Islam, when the ummah was at its height during the time of Mohammed and a few centuries after, for the acceptance of the ways of the Jahiliya west has only led to the downfall of Islam.
		The founders of Jihadism all believed in taking the fight against Jahiliya to all the earth until the Sharia was the only source of laws.
		The offer of a truce is a lie, political spin proffered by Al Qaida to weak kneed westerners who lack the stomache to stand up to an enemy who will gladly kill them and who fail to understand the nature of the terrorists who will gladly kill them.
	www.facesfromthefront.com /content/view/113/27 (956 words)

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