Top 153 Jihad Quotes & Sayings

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

Let's go and do jihad

America must keep jihad out, especially when we know exactly where it is coming from.

Just because you're interested in what jihad is doesn't mean you intend to join.

The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth

Every mosque that is tied to jihad-related activity should be shut.

Homeland Security was rejecting, is rejecting terms like Jihad. They don't want to use terms like Jihad or Sharia, because they feel that alienates the youth in terms of propagandizing. However, an imam can talk about the killing of gays. To fight a cult, which is, this is the cult, you have to use the terminology of the cult, because how else can you explain what the cult and its practices are?

Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

Bin Laden studied economics and public administration before he turned to a life of jihad.

To the government, terrorism committed by people who are Muslim is not a reflection on the legitimate interpretation of Islam, even if Islamic supremacist ideology, which endorses jihad violence - Islam, standard, mainstream Islam endorses jihad violence, but our government doesn't want to admit that or deal with it. Here in America, as in Western Europe, this is the key to understand.

The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

I am more on a global jihad to preserve our freedom. I believe that even though I have nothing against the people or Muslims or anybody for that reason.

Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.

Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.

Jihad is the Afghan bling.

ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance

This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us.

Rather than politics of 'love jihad,' why shouldn't the concept of Love Jihad be applicable in politics?

The ghost caliphate will be a virtual organization; it'll be decentralised, with no leadership, and it will just encourage people to keep acting now that the caliphate's gone, that individuals should go do self-starting jihad. Get a gun, get an improvised weapon, take your car, and carry out the jihad.

Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and speaks about Jihad has not even spent a minute in the battlefield.

Jihad is misused by fundamentalists. The Quranic meaning is not meant for war at all, in the sense of killing.

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.

Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.

Jihad is described as a war against Muslims, to establish the religion.

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

If you join ISIS, if you wage jihad on America, then you are signing your death warrant.

It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

The global jihad movement ideology is a destructive religious cult. It is so un-Islamic that it is virtually anti-Islamic.

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

The Bin Ladens must not be confused with authentic jihad - it's quite something else. If you want an example of external jihad, you should cite Amir Abd al Qadir who fought against the French in the 19th century, which was quite something else.

The lesser jihad is our active fulfillment of Islam's commands and duties.

The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it.

There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.

Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.

The greater jihad is proclaiming war on our ego's destructive and negative emotions and thoughts... which prevent us from attaining perfection.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

The problem is that Abu Mazen signed an agreement with the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.

Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.

Let me sum up in two words how the unhinged Left copes with the threat of global jihad: "Kill Bush!"