Jihad in the Bible
It a is cliché in the West to criticize Quran and Islam due the concept of Jihad. Even the Pope Benedict while criticizing Islam said, “Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul”. When you read Bible, you come to the conclusion that those who criticize Islam due to its concept of Jihad are ignorant of the teachings of Bible. Here is an excerpt from Bible: “When you come near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. And it shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries to you, and they shall serve you. And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take to yo