The Noble Qur'an - An-Nisa 4:29
...And do not kill yourselves (nor kill one another).
Surely, Allah is Most Merciful to you.
Throughout the world, the arrogant few use whatever powers they can muster to force their opinions into the lives of others. Not one nation is immune to their abuses. As their power grows, so in turn does their arrogance until they consider themselves worthy of making the judgement over the life and death of their unfortunate subjects.
Western politicians buy time on public television to tell us why their opponents can never be trusted, breeding a cynical and yet somehow still manipulated population. Believing themselves all but immune to the altered truths of these social climbers, a nation's hypnotised sheep blindly follow instructions to vote for political parties identified by coloured symbols on a page. Never realising that democracy means rule by the people and that the rule by a rarely changing elite that promotes family dynasties is more correctly known as an oligarchy.
Dictatorial regimes sit like ancient kings upon their gilded thrones enjoying absolute rule over their brutalised and frightened populations. Oppressed masses seek solace in ancient stories of good and evil spouted from the mouths of those who seek to obtain moral and spiritual control over the lives of others. All the while these manipulators of truth point, at those that they abhor, the accusatory finger of blame.
Renegades and warlords roam the nations of the world bringing death and destruction. Their target? That which is different to themselves. Not out of bravery, not out of morality, not even out of necessity. Only out of fear. Their fear is so deep and all encompassing that their happiness depends upon the unhappiness of others.
This is the world in which the Keltic Jihad exists.
It is the struggle for individuality, the need for self determination and the knowledge of the fruits of co-operation that drives those who would see the race evolve and take its place among the stars. To them, the future is an unwritten story penned by the actions of the many against the excesses of the few. These people understand that we are just a single race, lost in the blackness of space and billions of miles from those who could teach us that we are not alone.
It is to them that the Keltic Jihad calls.
We have been asked a few times about our politics. Most specifically about our use of the term Jihad within our name. People want to know where we stand on the political matters pertaining to the chaos in the Middle East.
Heavy metal music has always courted controversy. Whether that is a band naming themselves after a horror movie (Black Sabbath), a torture device (Iron Maiden) or even the act of killing a God (Deicide). Our name is intended to be something that you don't forget easily. After all, we want you to remember who we are - how better to do that than by having a controversial name?
We all deplore the preaching of hatred by anyone about anyone else. It doesn't matter what justification you use - it is wrong to attempt to teach others to hate what they don't understand.
How does this tie into the word Jihad?
Well, the literal translation of the word is "to strive". In mainstream Islam, this is thought of as the act of trying to be good and honourable. It denotes the act of keeping within the tenets of the faith and the struggle that all go through to remain true to their beliefs. We use the term in this sense - the act of struggling to be the best that you can be at every moment in your life.
Certain nationalistic Islamic scholars have re-interpretted the Qur'an and extracted those bits that seem to support the idea of an Islamic Revolution. Some have even suggested that Islam can never be safe until everyone in the world is forced to be a Muslim. They insist on Sharia Law being implemented in countries which have a tiny minority of Muslims without ever realising that by doing so they are violating their own faith. These people use the term Jihad to describe a holy war against "infidels".
We believe that these people are apostates.
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