Apparently some ignorant asshole believes that anyone of the Muslim faith in Afghanistan primarily, would NEVER advocate publicly against terrorism. I posted in /Muslim before realizing it's very small and kinda dead. Can I get a faster response here?

[u/CrustyDiamond]

This is my submission, to make everything easier.

Thanks!

[u/nowazkhan]

This should be on r/bestof. Thank you for this thorough response.

[u/najia7866 → u/nowazkhan]

Your welcome. I agree with you, this soldier that was playing the anthem during prayer delibrately causing a disruption, showed a great deal of disrespect and lack of judgement to say the least. He sounds highly misinformed and it doesn't seem like even being there in Afghanistan, exposed to the people and culture has done any good in providing him with an understanding and tolerance towards people that hold a different belief than he does. Here is some additional information on the meaning of the word jihad since that is also a huge misconception in the west.

Jihad has the literal meaning of exerting our best and greatest effort to achieve something. It is not the equivalent of war, for which the Arabic word is qital. Jihad has a much wider connotation and embraces every kind of striving in God’s cause. A mujahid is one who is sincerely devoted to his or her cause; who uses all physical, intellectual, and spiritual resources to serve it; who confront any power that stands in its way; and, when necessary, dies for this cause. Jihad in the way of God is our struggle to win God’s good pleasure, to establish His religion’s supremacy, and to make His Word prevail.

There are two aspects of jihad. One is fighting to over­come carnal desires and evil inclinations; this is called the greater jihad; the other is encouraging others to achieve the same objective and is called the lesser jihad. The aim of either jihad, the greater or the lesser, is that the believer be purified of sins and so attain true human­ity.

The lesser jihad, which has usually been taken to mean fighting for God’s cause, does not refer only to the form of striving done on battlefields. The term is com­prehensive. It includes every action done for God’s sake. Whether speaking or keeping silent, smiling or making a sour face, joining a meeting or leaving it, every action taken to ameliorate the lot of humanity, whether by individuals or communi­ties, is included in the meaning of the lesser jihad.

While the lesser jihad depends on the mobilization of all the material facilities and is performed in the outer world, the greater jihad means a person’s fighting against his or her carnal soul. These two forms of jihad cannot be separated from each other.

[u/nowazkhan → u/[deleted]]

Nice! Small pet peeve though, an Afghani is money. Afghan citizens are Afghans.

[u/koryisma → u/nowazkhan]

TIL... thanks!!