Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: December 7, 2003
URL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_486790,0008.htm
Chief of banned terrorist outfit
Jaish-e-Mohammed Maulana Masood Azhar has said that in Islam the only meaning
of jihad was killing, even as another terrorist group supporter asked Pakistan
to declare that suicide bombing against west was jihad.
"In Islam the only meaning of jihad
was killing, and those who projected the concepts of jihad Akbar and jihad
Asghar were against Islam," Azhar was quoted by an Urdu daily Nawa-e-Waqt
as saying.
Azhar was speaking at a gathering
at Pattoki in Pakistan organised by another banned terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Jihad Akbar is supposed to be non-violent
while jihad Asghar is supposed to be the war by the sword.
He said it was a conspiracy against
Islam to say that jihad was not killing.
Another supporter of terrorist groups
in Pakistan, justice (retired) Javid Iqbal said at a seminar in Lahore
that Pakistan and the Islamic world should declare that suicide bombing
against the west was actually jihad.
It was the United States that was
doing terrorism and not the suicide bombers of various organisations, he
was quoted by daily Jung as saying.
