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War against Islam, also called the War on Islam or Attack on Islam, is a coined term to describe a perceived campaign to harm, weaken or annihilate the societal system of Islam, using military, economic, social and cultural means. The campaign is supposedly waged by non-Muslims and by "false Muslims", who are supposedly in collusion with the Western world. The crusades are often seen as the start of western aggression against Islam, ignoring the centuries of war and conquest led by Islamic armies against Europe and Christian territories prior to the crusades. The phrase or similar phrases have been used by Muslims such as Ayatollah Khomeini,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KHOMEINI, AYATOLLAH )〕 Sayyid Qutb, Osama bin Laden, the imam Anwar al-Awlaki, Chechen militant Dokka Umarov, Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, and Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hasan. The English-language political neologism of "War on Islam" was coined in the 1990s and popularized only after 2001, with the "War on Terror" denounced as a "War on Islam" by critics.〔e.g. Abid Ullah Jan, ''War on Islam?: What Does the "war on Terror" Mean for the Muslim and Non-Muslim World?'' (2002). 〕 The supposed perpetrators of the war include Western powers (especially the United States), pro-Western Muslim states, and non-Western, non-Muslim states such as Israel (Israeli–Palestinian conflict), Serbia (Genocide in Bosnia), Russia (Chechen–Russian conflict),〔(Here ) Osama bin Laden says: This is why they established institutions and enacted laws to maintain their supremacy by creating the United Nations and the veto power.... They regard jihad for the sake of God or defending one's self or his country as an act of terror. US and Europe consider jihad groups in Palestine, Chechnya, Iraq and Afghanistan as terrorist groups, so how could we talk or have understanding with them without using weapons?〕〔Human Rights Watch: (Chechnya: Research Shows Widespread and Systematic Use of Torture )〕〔(Chechnya Holds Parliamentary Vote ), Morning Edition, NPR, 28 November 2005.〕〔(Government efforts help only some IDPs rebuild their lives ), IDMC, 13 August 2007〕 India (for the conflict in Kashmir),〔( Here ) Osama bin Laden mentions: Meanwhile, a UN resolution passed more than half a century ago gave Muslim Kashmir the liberty of choosing independence from India and Kashmir. George Bush, the leader of the Crusaders' campaign, announced a few days ago that he will order his converted agent (President Pervez ) Musharraf to shut down the Kashmir mujahidin camps, thus affirming that it is a Zionist-Hindu war against Muslims〕 and more recently China (for the Xinjiang conflict). ==Usage== According to scholar David B. Cook, a religious studies professor at Rice University, what some believe is scriptural evidence for the existence of the alleged war is found in a popular hadith, one that supposedly prophesies a war against Islam "is the Tradition of Thawban":〔Cook, ''Understanding Jihad'' (2005), p.143〕 The Messenger of God said: The nations are about to flock against you (Muslims ) from every horizon, just as hungry people flock to a kettle. We said: O Messenger of God, will we be few on that day? He said: No, you will be many in number, but you will be scum, like the scum of a flash-flood, without any weight, since fear will be removed from the hearts of your enemies, and weakness (''wahn'') will be placed in your hearts. We said: O Messenger of God, what does the word ''wahn'' mean? He said: Love of this world, and fear of death.〔Abu Da'ud, ''Sunan'', (Beirut, 1988), IV, p.108 (no. 4297) quoted in Cook, ''Understanding Jihad - Abu Dawood declared some of Hadiths (including the abouve) in his book to be unauthentic'' (2005), p.143〕 On the authority of Thawbaan, Mohammad said:〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.islaam.net/main/display.php?id=1448&category=164 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「War against Islam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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