The jihad of the pen and the jihad of the tongue are time-honored concepts in Islam, involving the advancement of the jihad imperative, which is to impose Sharia around the world, by non-violent means. This activity is particularly sophisticated and advanced in the West, as I demonstrated in my 2008 book Stealth Jihad, as well as my 2013 book Arab Winter Comes to America.
“‘Fighting with the tongue is as important as fighting physically’: Islamic State calls for Social Media warfare,” OpIndia, April 15, 2022:
The Islamist terrorist group Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) has urged its supporters and recruits to emphasize media warfare in addition to military combat. “Fighting with the tongue is as important as fighting physically,” ISKP stated in a new issue of their magazine.
Islamic State-Khorasan Province announced in a new edition of the organization’s English-language magazine that a deliberate focus on “social media warfare” is vital not just to progress on the ideological battlefield, but also to oppose the attraction of “enchanting” social media influencers.
In an article published online in the third edition of the Voice of Khurasan magazine, the terror outfit said, “War comes in many forms and targets different aspects of humans. A war can be fought militarily targeting physical self or it can be fought ideologically targeting intellect.”
“As much importance the physical clashes hold, ideological confrontations also matter if not more. The physical battle can be lost even before it starts if people, in our case Muslims, are defeated or at the least trapped in the battle for the hearts and minds,” the article further added.
Furthermore, it stated, “The Crusaders of the West understood the importance of the battle for the hearts and minds, and hasten to prepare to advance for confrontation on this front by opening their research centers, colleges and other forms of institutions. They funded thousands of people in the name of research for this and bought people who wear cloaks of Muslim.”
According to the magazine, despite the fact that their areas have been taken away from them, ISKP is still engaged in jihad….
Walter Sieruk says
This shows that with Islam there are many different kinds of jihad. As the stealth jihad with its insidious political infiltration and subversion of Western countries.
There is also the “Jihad of the sword” which is the violent , bloody and murderous Islamic terrorism carried out in many Western nations and in the State of Israel. as well as other countries ,seen in that horrific massacre of many Roman Catholics on Easter Sunday just over three years ago in Sri Lanka.
There is also the “Jihad of the wallet ” which is used often used to support those other type of jihad just explained above.
Then the is the “Jihad of the pen ” as in written , printed or keyboarded Islamic propaganda.
As covered in this top jihad-watch article there is the “Jihad of the tongue”
Christians can match the Muslim “jihad of the pen and torque” but not with propaganda as what Muslim use but with truth. Which is also refereed called truth expounding.
By books about Islam written by former Muslims who are now Christians as ISLAM AND TERRORISM by Mark A Gabriel. UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eetgi Caner
In addition there’s the Bible base Christian site answering-islam.org
Infidel says
If that’s a big part of the war, what we do here everyday is a major contribution against the jihad. I feel great already ?
Infidel says
One more thing – they’re still using a bizarre definition of ‘Khurasan’, to mean everything from Kazakhstan to Sri Lanka. Historically, it just meant the North-eastern part of Iran, Western part of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. That was it!