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Following the lead of the always reliable Daily Mail<\/em>, Jezebel <\/em>recently published a post<\/a> declaring how awful it is to call your child \u201cJihad,\u201d suggesting that this is tantamount to naming a child \u201cHitler.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cassie Murdoch starts by drawing a parallel to the story of a New Jersey couple that named<\/a> two of their children Adolf Hitler Campbell and\u00a0 JoceLynn Aryan National Campbell. Murdoch links this case and with a Daily Mail<\/em> story about a woman who named her baby Jihad, a word that Murdoch defines as a \u201creligious war all followers are to wage against non-believers.\u201d Murdoch\u2019s quick-fire definition is not only inaccurate, it reeks of ignorance, and let\u2019s face it: it\u2019s just plain lazy.<\/p>\n

Jihad is a word that many Muslims have wrestled with over the past ten years. It\u2019s been misinterpreted, twisted, re-adjusted and scrutinised, and sometimes I get sicker of looking at those five letters than I am of the word hijab. <\/em>Let us take a step back and regurgitate the first lesson from Not-All-Muslims-Are-Terrorists-101: jihad <\/em>means struggle <\/em>and not really the carnal holy war fantasy that keeps Pamela Geller aroused and awake at night. <\/em>That isn\u2019t to say that it cannot be used to describe something violent, but that it is complex and contested, much like any other religious word or figure. <\/em>If you would like to beat a dead horse on the definition of jihad<\/em>, please click here<\/a>, or I don\u2019t know: research any conversation about Islam in the past ten years.<\/p>\n

The name \u201cJihad\u201d signifies an important struggle to defend religion, or be a good Muslim, all things that would understandably be important to religious parents. And besides, Jihad is a really common name. And I mean, really common. <\/em>In fact, I am sure that attendance records in our nations schools have featured that name for years, which might possibly be a sign of Shari\u2019ah <\/em>destroying our free and liberal society from within.<\/p>\n

While I believe that it is important to be critical of Islam and any other religious institution, scrutiny through the lens of stereotypes is not a very good start, and I am disappointed to see a website that I held in such high regard perpetuate such stereotypes. Put down the Islamophobic sippy cups, Jezebel; a slow news day is never an excuse for pointless sensationalism.<\/p>\n

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