Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
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American jihadists are generally motivated by a mix of factors, including dislike of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world.
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.
American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem.
We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.
Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.
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 expands Islam's domain by any means available.
The jihadists come from many European countries, Russia included, and some even from the United States; hundreds of them - if you take Europe, Russia and the U.S. - are fighting in the ranks of extremist groups.
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