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Essay / A Comparative Analysis of Jihad from an Ethical Perspective
IntroductionSince the very beginning of history, humans have sought justification for their actions due to their nature. As a result, all groups, from democratic governments to tyrannical administrations and even terrorist organizations, have all sought the same thing in an effort to satisfy moral values and ethical reasoning. As a form of international relations, wars, which stood at the crossroads of history or directly changed the course of history, could not escape the need for moral and ethical justifications, despite the points of contrasting views that differentiate international relations from human relations. As Amstutz puts it, ethical reactions to wars ranged from “pacifism” to “amoral realism.” While the pacifist approach prohibits the use of force and assumes that wars as a manifestation of violence can never be morally legitimate, the latter perspective, amoral realism, holds that wars are legitimate political instruments and cannot be morally legitimate. constraints. In the United States in 2001, Jihad made headlines, particularly in the form of distorted interpretations under the influence of increased media coverage. In his effort at categorization with which I cannot fully agree, Amstutz also situates Jihad within the confines of amoral realism, as well as the "cynical" and religious understanding of war that includes holy wars and crusades . After having expressed disagreement with the aforementioned position of the perception of Jihad, in this work, parallel to the original meaning of jihad, I will try to situate the position of Jihad in an intermediate situation like the conception of "war just ". To this end, initially the literal average...... middle of paper ......ition-921Amjad-Ali, Op.cit, p.239Graham, Op.cit., pp.62-63Jeff McMahan, “ Just Cause for War”, pp.13-17Graham, Op.cit., p.63James Turner Johnson, Jihad and Just War, Opinion, p.12http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisions_of_the_world_in_Islam, accessed December 7 ,2013Aktan, Op.cit., pp.27-28Amstutz, Op.cit., p.115Johnson, Jihad and Just War, Opinion, p.12Aktan, Op.cit, p.37Romeijn-Stout, Op.cit., p . .37Amstutz, Op.cit., p.115Romeijn-Stout, Op.cit, p.41Ahmet Gunes, “Opinions on the rules of war in Islamic law”, Terror and Suicide Attacks:An Islamic Perspective, ed. By Ergun Capan, 2004, p.129Ibid, p.128Frances V. Harbour, “The Just War Tradition and the Use of Nonlethal Chemical Weapons in the Vietnam War,” Ethics in International Affairs, edited by Andrew Valls (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), p...54