My Jihad Ad Campaign Launches In Washington, D.C.

Ready to see more ads about jihad during your morning commute?

Just months after controversial anti-Muslim ads went on display, the nation's capital will feature a campaign meant to redefine, in positive ways, the popular understanding of jihad.

Four Metro stations — Shaw-Howard U, Waterfront, Rockville and Dunn Loring-Merrifield — will host the My Jihad campaign, a project intended to educate residents on the proper meaning of a term largely understood to have negative and violent connotations.

"Jihad is a central tenet of the Islamic creed which means struggling uphill in order to get to a better place," a media release about the campaign explained.

“This campaign is about representing our voices, our lives — our reality,” the organization’s website reads. “The purpose of the campaign is to bring forth the mainstream majority of moderate voices that is often squeezed out between two extremes. The simple, yet much ignored fact is that Jihad is a positive, peaceful, and constructive practice.”

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John J Flanagan

Euphemisms. Euphemisms. Redefinitions of words. Part and parcel of deceptions in language. We all know what Jihad means to Muslims, and it does not come to any significance as a term of use without the idea of violence.
- edc
  
  We all know what it means to muslims, just like what "gay" means to queers, it's a smoothing out process before they attack. Words are manipulated by liars to facilitate their corruption.
aceituna

Maybe these ads against each other will educate some people.
JT

Nope. Watch what they DO, and not what they say.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000123849151 Dale Patterson

I should think that anyone reading The Huffington Post would know that this is a bent perspective on what in realityis a word with a negative context in anyone's language…I suppose Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was just misunderstood as well…
dntmkmecomoverther

"Jihad is a central tenet of the Islamic creed which means struggling uphill in order to get to a better place," 'Bravo Sierra' to them. Go learn Arabic you morons…and also, learn the context of how today's arab uses the term 'Jihad'. WTFU.
KalevEfrayim

Islam – an ideology of hate and intolerence.
susankiepprien

"Let us smile to the face of some people while our hearts curse them." Al-Hassan said: "Doing taqiyya is acceptable till the day of judgment [in perpetuity."
http://www.facebook.com/allen.c.pierce Allen Ynna Pierce

Jihad simply means holy war against the infidels. Domt let the godless muslims lie to you and sugarcoat it. They are here to convert you or kill you. Islam is not a religion of peace.
martinj7

I guess peaceful does not mean peaceful anymore.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Terry-Smith/802374376 Terry Smith

If Islam was a religion of peace, they wouldn't put up with the murderous, terrorist scum that "conquers " them and the world for "allah". What a wonderful PR joke Obama helps them run.
Wayne

They try, yet it can't be done. You can't clean up "Jihad". When radical Muslims use this term, it is in conjunction with acts of violence that murder. Maybe non-radicals mean something else.
Tied in with terms such as "infidels", a purpose to purge the earth of anyone who opposes these radicals only further adds to the evil of radical Jihad.
Shame on these radicals and shame on anyone who believes this garbage.
Sgt. York

well if that's it's meaning guess killin all Americans will get them further up the hill. Anyway you look at it its a call to war for these slobs
Xman3

We just had another suicide bombing by a Muslim, this time at the US Embassy in Turkey. Look at the Muslim infux in Australia, Great Britain and Europe and how is that working out? Large families on welfare and high unemployment, increasing radical violence.
nax777

Jihad = convert infidels to be third class citizens or kill them, blood lines keep you from "A #1". Islamist's have been immigrating here legally at illegal immigration rates since 2011, 700,000 annually. http://www.numbersusa.com / http://www.goooh.com
BTW how many Pub leaders want to reduce LEGAL immigration numbers? All my Reps in both House's are Pubs (5) and do not want to reduce LEGAL immigration numbers.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Kelly-Kafir/100001899500966 Kelly Kafir
  
  don't forget, People of the book (Jews and Christians) can pay the jizyya tax and live as second class citizens! Soo, there is no compulsion in religion – you have a choice! WOO HOO!
determented

If you want to get our country check this out http://www.petition2congress.comstartimmediate-investigation
Phere

Islamic jihad in Europe has become so prevalent, so violent that the
streets aren't safe for citizens. The nations that have accepted Islamic
Sharia for government have radicalized and instituted such extreme
concepts that even the Islamic culture is fleeing these primitive,regressive, and crudely governed
countries. The consequent tide of these immigrant Islamists has in
effect tried to take over Christian and other peace loving nations in
it's path. This so much so that now some nations are having to get tough
about some of these radical jihads that are stirring hate and
discontent. The Jihad is nothing short of the radical euphemism that no other government, religion, or idealism shall be spoken of, ruled of, or lived by other than that of the embodiment of the Quran. This text example of hate, violence, and abhorrence, is nothing short of a rule for the stagnation of the human experience. The admitted ideology is that no joy shall be expressed to this life, no outward expression of happiness or love shall exist, but most importantly the woman's place in our world is to serve the male dominance. Period. Islam exists to dominate is the final agenda, no other rule will exist, no other message is acceptable, all others (non-Islam believers), are the "Infidel".
John Adams

You can dip poo in chocolate, but it's still poo.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kelly-Kafir/100001899500966 Kelly Kafir

Huffington Post is such a tool! Of course, this is ONE definition of Jihad but as New Yorkers know, there is another definition. From the Qur'an 2:216 You are COMMANDED to fight although you dislike it. You may hate something that is good for you and love something that is bad for you. For Allah knows and you do not. Fighting the Kuffar (infidels) is 64% of the Qur'an, 37% of the Hadith and 81% of the Sira. All together the Islamic trilogy talks about fighting infidels = 60%… does that sound like an "inner" struggle to you?
Cutting off finger tips, hands, feet, striking at necks, lying in wait, striking terror in their hearts. This is a campaign to lull you back to sleep – started by CAIR, the front for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas! I seriously hope that the Jewish people aren't buying this… There IS writing on the wall, if you will only open your eyes! "My people die for a lack of knowledge"
mccormackterrie

I don't care what Jihad was intended to mean. Today it means murder and massacre. It means violence, evil, and death. I don't like it and neither does anyone else.
Dempseycoleman

Only an Idiot will believe this attempt to change minds
on this subject
Schawminator

The socialist/Democrats can't fool us as we know Islamic Jihad is terrorism in a form of religious
terrorism committed by Muslims for the purpose of achieving varying political and/or religious ends. Islamic terrorism has been identified as taking place in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, South Asia
including India and Pakistan, Southeast Asia, and the United States since the 1970s. Islamic terrorist
organizations have been known to engage in tactics including suicide attacks, hijackings, kidnapping
and recruiting new members through the Internet.
General

I guess that all Americans will just hve to be forced into another Civil War, even if it is on 3 or four ideological fronts, before they realize that defying GOD by keeping a man's law instead of God's LAWS, is rebellion against The Creator (read for starters: Matt:5-17etc, Gen:2, and Exodus 20.) The "Constitutional" Laws God gave mankind, must NEVER be broken, or the people will have their "citizenship" suspended or revoked by THE BIG BOSS UPSTAIRS. Jesus and John wrote and spoke about such matters. So, JIHAD may happen in America as one of the "curses" that must come from the churches infidelity to God.
Korean_Vet

I believe that I've read that Muslims were allowed & encouraged to "Lie to Non-Muslims" if it suits their
"Advantage" at the time-! Actually–it's an "Advantage to them–to do so–'Nearly All of the Time-!"
This way they can claim that you have a "Racial Prejudice against Liars"-!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-7Vu7cqB20 Phaerisee

If the Jihadists call us (USA) the Great Satan and they call Israel the little Satan, then logic dictates that it is probably a good idea to be friends with Israel.
http://www.facebook.com/frtimothyc Fr. Timothy Cremeens

Whether anyone knows it or not the Bible (Old & New Testament) was translated into Arabic long before the Quran ever came along. Also there were thousands of Christian Arabs (still are by the way). In the Arabic translation of the Old & New Testaments the word "struggle", as in struggle against sin, against pride, against temptation, against evil is "jihad". Its too bad the radical Muslims have destroyed a perfectly good word from the Arabic language.

Father Timothy Cremeens
Pastor, St. Mary's Albanian Orthodox Church
frtimothy@stmarysalbanianchurch.org