Radical Islamic cleric Zaid Shakir, a frequent guest speaker at CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations] events, tells his Muslim audiences: "Jihad is physically fighting the enemies of Islam to protect and advance the religion of Islam. This is jihad." Longtime CAIR advisory board member and chief fundraiser Siraj Wahhaj echoes his friend Shakir's interpretation of jihad. "If we go to war, brothers and sisters – and one day we will, believe me – that's why you're commanded [to fight in] jihad," the imam has told his flock in Brooklyn. "When Allah demands us to fight, we're not stopping and nobody's stopping us."
Imam Mahdi
According to the Shia and Sunni versions of the Islamic eschatology the Mahdi ("Guided One") is the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will stay on earth . . . before the coming of the . . . "Day of the Resurrection" or "Day of the Standing".Said Larijani: "The time of the supremacy of one religion over another is not over, and Islam is promised final victory. The Islamic Republic and other Islamic governments need to prepare for the Mahdi's governance by promoting justice and development and, although we have long-distance missiles, we are not war-like." Larijani clearly believes that history is not over. And in a clear rebuke to those adherents of Mahdism who see it as purely peaceful, Larijani quoted Imam Muhammad Baqir, a famous scholar from early Islamic history, who said that "there must be bloodshed and jihad to establish Imam Mahdi's rule." (from The Importance of Being Mahdist: Among Iran's Twelvers, by Timothy R. Furnish, 09/08/2008)
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