From islam to jihad cognition

• Author: Raul Ludovic Bereczki
• Position: Ph.D.c. at Babes-Bolyai University
• Pages: 5-11

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicaljournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 1 (2015), pp. 5-10

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FROM ISLAM TO JIHAD COGNITION

R.L. Bereczki

Bereczki Raul Ludovic

*Correspondence

Ph.D.c. at Babeș–Bolyai University

SABCO Project Deputy Security Manager

bereczkir@rcjubail.gov.sa ; rbereczk@bechtel.com ; Fax: 966 (0)3 341 7184

Abstract

We hope that a world which crossed over the multi-polarism, stood in the bipolar era

and recognized another evolution in the unipolar world contested by some civilizations will

transform itself in a multipolar world. Will this world bring peace and prosperity that we so

much wish for or will it break the global world and will it be the source of these conflicts full

of blood.

I consider that the answer is just our resources of imposing ourselves a unique way

of existence pax globala.

The best option for humanity is the multi-polarities and the constructive dialogue

without imposing any kind of orientation and without making any considerations that a

civilization is more important and the other is less significant.

All the civilizations imposed their impressions upon the common developments and

all the civilizations have the moral responsibilities of keeping the power centers balance for

the fruition of constructive projects and avoiding the negative effects upon human

development.

Keywords : Islam, Jihad, fundamentalism. Terrorism, Faith, Shiites, Sunnis, Kamikaze, ISIS

From Islam to Jihad cognition

It’s not the first time that we hear the word „fundamentalism", which, mostly, is linked

with the adjective „Islamic" and newly with „terrorism". What those Islam mean? What does

the Islamic fundamentalism pursue? The answers come by themselves. Islam is the junction

between God and man. If we refer to religions there is a Christian fundamentalism, as a Judaic

one, and outside religion we talk about a materialist-scientist fundamentalism, about a Stalinist

ideological fundamentalism, communist or about a philosophical fundamentalism, all these

presenting, each in part, to be the only holder of the absolute truth which they try to impose to

others even through force1.

In a close connection to this there is another term that the collective conscience – either

from insufficient knowledge or through the pressure of some ideological campaigns considers it

an instrument, the vehicle of fundamentalism which is „Jihad", usually translated by „holly war",

that in the European and western conception means violence and terrorism.

Islamic demographic

In numbers, the Earth population, in the XXI century, has reached an unpreceded record in

history. Two million years had been needed until the population of the planet reached a billion,

in 1804. The second billion was reached in 1927, the third in 1960, the fourth in 1974, the fifth

in 1987, and the sixth at the beginning of 2000, and in present the population of earth is of 7,5

billion people. It is expected that, in the following 20-25 years, the global population to reach

the approximate of 8 billion, of which 1.86 in the less developed countries and just 0.37 billion

1 Foreign Policy Romania, january/february 2014