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6 fascinating talks on better understanding Islam

Reblogged from TED Blog:

To many, the word ‘Jihad’ conjures up images of anger, machine guns and Osama bin Laden. But as Bobby Ghosh, editor-at-large of TIME magazine, shares in today’s talk -- this actually demonstrates a misappropriation of a word with deep religious significance.

“To the vast majority of practicing Muslims, Jihad is an internal struggle for the faith. It is a struggle within -- a struggle against vice, sin, temptation, lust, greed.

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