Jihad in the West by Paul Fregosi
Introduction: The Holy War That Isn't
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The jihad originates in the Koranic teaching and was practiced by Muhammad in his lifetime against Jewish and Pagan tribes in the Arabian peninsula, and soon after his death against the Persians and against the Christian peoples of the Byzantine empire, Syria, and Palestine. Hundreds of years later it terrified Europe. "From the fury of the Mahommedan, spare us, O Lord" was a prayer heard for centuries in all the churches of central and southern Europe. Fear of the Jihad had not entirely vanished even now, particularly among peoples who have known Muslim domination. The French expert on Islam, Maxime Robinson, reminded us of it a few years ago in the June 17, 1994, issue of the Paris newspaper Le Monde: "There are some words that scare people, jihad is one of them. When Serbian leaders want to satanize the Bosnian army they declare that Alija Izet Begovic (the Bosnian Muslim leader) has proclaimed Holy war, the jihad, the feared weapon of Islam."
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