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| Ah? I always heard it means holy war, and this was coming from Arabic friends who speak Arabic so i m a bit confused now | |
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"Yusuf" is right. There are two kinds of Jihad, the Higher Jihad which is the struggle to improve yourself and the world, and the Lesser Jihad which is the going to the defence of others under attack
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And your friends most likely are Arab friends, if from the Arab World or Arabian friends if from the Arabian Peninsula (the term is rarely used), but they cannot be "Arabic" as "Arabic" is the language but not any persons
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| Er, because democracy isn't one of their strong points? Show me a truly democratic nation in Africa (Mr. Wollishofener will resurrect his last response in a Ghadaffi bashing thread..) and I'll buy you a sticky bun. | |
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First, define "truly democratic" ! and then we'll look further
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| There were so many Gadaffis wandering round Basel earlier this week the real one could have walked the streets unhindered.
He's a bit of an attention seeker if the truth be told. Never trust any leader who dyes their hair. And when they blacken their beard and eyebrows - watch out.
What amazes me about Gadaffi is that his people keep re-electing him every few years... | |
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Sorry, but he was NEVER elected into ANY position ! And he is neither President nor Prime Minister but "the leader of the Libyan revolution" and moved up to this supreme noble position by self-nomination
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| Before this discussion goes any further could we please establish how to correctly spell his name?
Is it?
a) Gadaffi
b) Gaddafi
c) Ghadaffi
I've seen all three used and have always thought it was the second. | |
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Gadaffi Gaddafi Ghadaffi Khadafi Qadafi Qaddafi are all more or less correct
but the only "authorized version" of course is
معمر القذافي
and on that basis, I write it as Kh.... and in full
as theoretically asMuam'r al-Khadafi or rather as
Muammer al-Khaddafi
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| That's all well and good Yussuf, but let's be real here for a mo.
When the words Jihad and West (or for example a Western author) are mentioned in the same sentence, you need to wake up and smell the roses.
Those kinds of people calling for a Jihad are not exactly asking members of the faith to consider their inner demons, are they now? 
I am not saying that we should all be running for the bomb shelters. What I am saying is that the two words are not being used in a... let's see, how to put this delicately?... positive or constructive way. | |
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I suggest you start to be real yourself :
- the official Libyan news agency did not even publish
the anti-Switzerland rant
- Khaddafi is NOT a religious leader
- Libya still is doing exports (not only oil) to Switzerland
- Rants of Khaddafi are not known for positive and constructive ways !
Khaddafi made similar rants against Tunisia and Egypt once in a while, but Messrs Ben Ali and Mubarak are used to simply ignore the rubbish
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| Interesting that in the Arab world this is a non-story, most of the news agencies never even picked it up, it shows what sort of status Ghadafi has in the Arab/Muslim world, little or none.
Makes me also muse about the culpability of the western media in the "war on terror" a little bit more of ignore the loony and less hysteria might be a useful future strategy. | |
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The Arab World, as mentioned above, got used to his rants, usually against "fellow" Arab countries, for decades, and so, nobody cares. The Western Media enjoys to report about slightly crazy people "out there" .
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