'Seventeen derivatives of jihād occur altogether forty-one times in eleven Meccan texts and thirty Medinan ones, with the following five meanings: striving because of religious belief (21), war (12), non-Muslim parents exerting pressure, that is, jihād, to make their children abandon Islam (2), solemn oaths (5), and physical strength (1).'[1]
So 29% of the evocations of jihad are about war.
Besides, there have been 20+ conflicts thought in the name of 'jihad' since 1980's [2].
I understand that you may have your own definition of what jihad is, but I guess not all muslims will think like you.
Besides, social care by islamic organisations such as the Muslim Brotherhood [3] is used as a strategy to gain political power. Not only muslims do it, but when a political / religious group begins to substitute to the state, there is a strong susceptibility that the end goal is political rather than only altruistic.
Societies organize and stabilize given their own environment, history and ethnic composition. I disagree with judging how people on the other side of the globe manage their lives and their beliefs, as long as they can do it on their own.
If a traditional Tibetan saw American society, he could tell that they "live in a slave state, having to bear the burden of debt and interest for the most part of their lives" - because it may be unnatural for them. They would be quite astonished to see the amount of atheists.
Promotion of humanism everywhere in the world is another piece of the occidental imperialism.
It's useless to claim you are against racism and else if you do not understand that people from around the globe are perfectly right not sharing your set of values.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It strikes me as the highest form of chauvinism to assume your own society has discovered the One True Ethics.
Still, I think some conception of Western Human Rights should be universalized (like slavery is always bad, for example) but a lot of thought should go into what values are important enough to always impose on others.
