Like any religious group, Muslims disagree on things, including what Jihad means. That's why Sunni Muslims kill Shia Muslims.
Everything is relative. Muslim countries are a complete mixing between Sunni and Shia! I mean including in very small villages you have both of them. And we have no wars all around during whole history. They succeeded to keep that mixing during thousands years. Only that consideration proves that they are not so killing each other.
During this last century, Muslim world changed too much. Nationalist feelings were introduced into them, too much dictatorial regimes were installed, and the waging war of Israel and the invasions, colonialisms did not made things better. As conclusion, on these times, in the triggered and invaded countries, there are some wars and terror attacks between Sunnis and Shias, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And why some extremist Muslims want all non-Muslims dead.
There is no such thing. This is a media made brain wash based on wrong interpretation of Muslims principles on basis of wrong Christian principles. The mains lie is the meaning of the word “Jihad”. It’s translated as being “the Holy War” of Christian church principle; that means killing non Christians. When you translate that to Muslims as “Holy War”, Muslims understand that as “Making good”, “respecting and protecting weak people”, “install peace”, … Muslims could not imagine that “Holy War” means killing people who are not of my religion.
The first I pushed the discussion forward to ask the real meaning of “Holy War”, I was shocked! How is that possible to innocent people on basis of their religion?
Sorry, whole historic evidence proves that such wrong principle of killing innocent people on basis of their religion is not Islamic and did not happened in Muslim world. Sure, as everywhere, there was also some wars and some crimes were made on basis or religion. But the complete mixing of Muslim world proves that such “holy war” principle does not existed in Islam.
And what about those wacky Sufis, anyway?
The main guideline of Islam is controlling our own actions to make them as best as possible, without overcharging ourselves, with patience, and truth seeking. Some of Muslims became extremely pacific that they nearly give up all stress, all struggle, they accept everything as it is. These are Sufis.
mehmetin, why is that? I submit that it's because Muslims are just like Christians, Jews, Hindus, etc. Most are basically good people, but some are extremists and a few are actually evil. The evil ones flew those planes and killed 3000 innocent people.
There are some evil people amongst Muslims. But those who flew the planes into the towers were not Muslims. Free and independent justice must discover what happened. In the mean time, my investigation led me to the fact that Mossad and Bush administration made 9/11.
It's amazing that once upon a time the Muslim World was the most enlightened, most technically advanced, and most tolerant civilization on Earth. How times have changed.
The subject is easy. Since about year 1300, Muslim world became a “peace zone” where people can live in peace even if they are not rich, not protected. That installed a peace area and made all people very calm, quite in their mind. Such situation created some kind of technologic stagnation. It also kept the peaceful life amongst the citizens.
But in Europe, since 1300, there were always wars. That created huge technologic progress ending with industrial revolution and two catastrophic wars that changed whole world. At the end, by the intrusion of European influence during the last century, Muslim world has been destabilized and became a war zone too. And the criminal behavior of Israel with total support of USA and Europe, things do not become better.