True, that is why it is important for the community to explain. In other words, we need to have rallies where people say - "Jihad is an obligation, but we assure you that under no circumstance we will support violence here because we believe the obligation of jihad requires the following preconditions that are not met"
Peace JaanBaazz
Your understanding of Jihad is not correct brother.
Jihad is an obligation ** - correct**
but we assure you that under no circumstance we will support violence here - clarify more by saying not from any side not the people nor the establishment.
preconditions? - not so ... every situation is potentially a means to Jihad. Jihad is doing right even when it means we could endanger our own lives. So coming in the way between two people fighting to stop them when you know you could get hit .... that is Jihad. There is this natural urge for self preservation inside us ... Jihad is when we compromise that urge to fulfil principles. The moment we back down without voicing the truth and allow ourselves to become subdued then we are doing the very opposite of Jihad.
These questionnaires should be answered with wisdom or not at all. The Muslims who gave responses aught to have asked for clarification. There is no shame in admitting that we will do for our religion what every patriotic citizen will not fail to do for his country - die for it, fight to preserve it, but we should add that we will not do as the government does either ... which is unethical warfare and creates unethical laws for its own inhabitants. Muslims will engage in our struggles with ethical consideration. Those people who do not struggle ethically, I disassociate from them. 7/7 whether it was Muslims youths or not, (if really were Muslim then what sort of scruples did they have for bombing Muslim population hotspots in London?) anyway or whether it was the powers that be who wanted to create an arena for more strict action ... G8 took place same time in Scotland and they were about to forgive and forget billions of dollars of developing country debt ... what a distraction! The black suits from the states were in town ... we said years ago before the latest Iraq war, that they only wanted the oil ... people saying that such and such was a conspiracy theory ... I wonder when theories are considered proven?
Muslims .... we should have a backbone and speak what is truthful!