Glad to hear it, but did you ask him to define "evil" in the Islamic context, because jihadis define "evil" as "the United States and all non-Muslims."Blind groper wrote:On Jihad
I was talking recently with a Muslim friend, and asked him about Jihad. He told me that most Muslims now believe that Jihad is the fight against evil. He and other NZ Muslims believe that eliminating evil in their own behaviour is part of Jihad, and fighting against ISIS is Jihad, since they are evil.
This is, as I told you, the problem with believing anything a Muslim says because they are explicitly permitted to lie to you, including by omission. So when they say "fight against evil" you have to very carefully and explicitly get them to define exactly what Islam considers "evil." Further, their statement that "evil in their own behavior is part of jihad" they are temporizing and could be lying by omission. Sure, in most religions conquering the evil in yourself is one of the things a believer is challenged to do, but it is not the ONLY thing that Muslims are commanded to do, and therein lies the lie by omission and the deceitful mendacity that Muslims are explicitly called upon to present to infidels like you.
If you want to get a true read on what your friend believes you have to be prepared to ask for and insist on truthful answers that, by their nature, show that he absolutely abjures and excludes imposing ANY aspect of Islam on ANYONE other than himself and is willing to swear to Allah that he has absolutely no hidden agenda or intent to engage in jihad in any way, even through silent support, no intent to enslave infidels as Allah commands, and no intent to support the establishment of a Caliphate, not merely an opposition to ISIS, but opposition to the very idea of jihad and the Caliphate.
And I'm reasonably certain that if you question him closely and carefully and close each and every loophole he puts up in his responses, such as the ones I've revealed above, that he will eventually get angry, accuse you of Islamophobia and will both cease to be your "friend" and will walk away rather than risk his entry to Paradise or his actual, factual neck by announcing that he is a Muslim apostate.
