(Sent Nov 15, 2019)
[Regarding all the articles on the two no-work,
no-school days in the south.]
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) launched 450
rockets in two days at Israeli civilians as a reaction to Israel assassinating
their leader Bahaa Abu Al-Ata. Palestinian Islamic Jihad was mentioned hundreds
of times in the media and the Jerusalem Post, yet not a single journalist found
it necessary to write about what the word Jihad in the
organization’s name, which advertises its motives, actually meant.
In the Dictionary of Islam (1885), Thomas
Patrick Hughes, offers this definition of Jihad: “Lit. “An effort, or a
striving”. A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of
Muhammad. It is an incumbent religious duty established in the Qur’an and in
the Traditions as a divine institution, and enjoined specially for the purpose
of advancing Islam and of repelling evil from Muslims”.
Mladen Andrijasevic
Be’er Sheva
