submission] and are utterly subdued [with humiliation and feel themselves subdued to the government of Islam].9 So terrorism is not actually a distortion of the message passed down from Mohammed and his followers. It follows in the same vein. The final object of jihad is to see the non-Islamic world—Dar al Harb (the domain of war)—turned into Dar al Islam (the domain of Islam). This is based on Qur’anic teaching—there are many verses which encourage belief in the universality of Islam. Jihad, then,
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