Tom Facchine – Answering the Misconceptions #08 – What is Jihad

			Some people hear the word jihad. And they think that she had some violent, barbaric sort of concept.
And I guess there's two responses I have to that. One is that Jihad means a lot of things. So
fighting against your own soul, or the ego, right, fighting against your ego taming your ego,
disciplining yourself. This is something that can all be referred to as jihad, first of all, so just
because you hear the word jihad doesn't mean that we're talking about something that's violent. And
the second thing is that not all violence is bad, right? In World War Two, it took violence to get
rid of Hitler, right? That was a type of righteous violence. And a law actually says in the Koran,
		

			if you don't defend yourselves, if you don't stick up for yourselves, then there's not going to be a
church or a mosque or a synagogue left on the face of this earth. And the law actually uses those
words. He doesn't just say, mosques, he says churches and synagogues to which shows you that this is
something that is part of human rights, something that is every single community has the right to
defend itself, and to make sure that it has the freedom to be able to worship their creator and
practice their religion. And there's evil forces in the world and history that sometimes try to take
that away. And, you know, you should have the ability and the license to defend yourself against
		

			those forces. So it doesn't it's not anything that's barbaric, and it's not anything that's beyond
that, that GE has just a it's it's a part of life where either if it's fighting against yourself or
whether it's fighting against forces that want to take away rights that everybody should have