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The second part in a series of speeches, writings by Maududi.  In keeping with the standards of this Blog, I post here the Islamic jurisprudence in support of Jihad, from the pen and mouth of an eminent Islamic scholar, namely Seyed Abul Maududi.  Causes of Misunderstanding about the Holy War: In any case, this is a part of political tactics. But from a purely scholastic standpoint when we analyse the causes due to which the red nature of the ‘Holy War for the Cause of God’ has become difficult to understand not only for non- Muslims but Muslims themselves, we discover two major and basic misconceptions. The first misunderstanding is that they consider Islam to be a religion in the conventional sense of the term ‘religion’. The second misconception is that they take Muslims to be a ‘Nation’ in the technical sense of this term. These two misunderstandings have not only mixed up the concept of Jihād’ but have changed the picture of Islam as a whole and ha...

Figure: A police forensics investigator in the Ama jewelry store after it was robbed. On Thursday November 3, 2016, at approximately 1:40 PM, three armed and masked men entered the Ama jewelry store, after having subdued the security guard, they proceeded to rob the store of an undisclosed quantity of jewelry. According to the owner and employees, the store was filled with customers (15 persons), who were mostly tourist’s. Arun Biljani the owner said in a statement that two of the armed men entered further into the establishment while another armed man held the security guard at gunpoint. One of the men wielding a sledgehammer smashed eight of the jewelry display cases, while his accomplice proceeded to empty them of their contents. Figure: At least two persons received injuries as they were, smashed over their heads with the butts of pistol’s, by the robbers.  Ambulance personnel were on the scene treating the injured. A week later   four armed...

In 2003 I published a book entitled Rastafari and its Hindu Origins, which I subsequently renamed Rastafari and its Shamanist Origins.  In the chapter titled:  A Changing Caribbean,  I wrote that: “ The Caribbean region will figure greatly in the upcoming years as a region that is part of the Arab-Israeli question. The island of Trinidad and Tobago has gone unnoticed in international circles as a haven for extremist Muslim rhetoric. The attempted coup led by the Jamaat al-Muslimeen in Trinidad is an example of Muslim extremism in the region. The tendency of Arab Muslim extremists to train and finance Muslim extremists in other parts of the world has also proven true in Trinidad and Tobago.   Today 2016 , thirteen years later newspaper reports, both in the print and online mediums abound all validating my prediction bolstered by factual data. Looptt.com posted online on November 16 2015 that: “After ISIS claimed responsibility for the terror attacks in Paris l...