Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
When people start treating jihader speech as protected, I had to go to law.com and look up a couple of things:
Now, to my knowledge, the speech part of assault is a felony. It isn't considered something one can say and then defend as a First Amendment right. Maybe there is case law where the Supreme Court has incorporated threatening words as "intended" by the writers of the Bill of Rights.
http://www.legalmatch.com/law-librar...st-threat.html
To me, this is really just some sort of refinement of assault. But again, it seems to me clear that, again, jihaders' tendency to shoot their mouths off makes them prima facie criminal's in western law. So it isn't like they haven't been told that they are in legal jeopardy. And it also isn't like I'm hatching new concepts in saying they are suspects by virtue of the groups they belong to.
I think PhlyingRPH has proved his point, as with this, and other posts, you demonstrate clearly that your understanding of the term "jihad" is sketchy at best and probably gleaned from the very limited and narrow definition disseminated by the mass media.
From Wikipedia:
In Modern Standard Arabic, jihad is one of the correct terms for a struggle for any cause, violent or not, religious or secular (though كفاح kifāḥ is also used). For instance, Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha struggle for Indian independence is called a "jihad" in Modern Standard Arabic (as well as many other dialects of Arabic); the terminology is also applied to the fight for women's liberation.
The term 'jihad' has accrued both violent and non-violent meanings. It can simply mean striving to live a moral and virtuous life, spreading and defending Islam as well as fighting injustice and oppression, among other things. The relative importance of these two forms of jihad is a matter of controversy. A poll by Gallup showed that a "significant majority" of Muslim Indonesians define the term to mean "sacrificing one's life for the sake of Islam/God/a just cause" or "fighting against the opponents of Islam". In Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, and Morocco, the majority used the term to mean "duty toward God", a "divine duty", or a "worship of God", with no militaristic connotations.
Just saying...