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Are you saying that the highest calling for a Muslim is to wield a sword? Because I read somewhere that it's actually the al-jihad al-akbar (the greater jihad): to veer away from evil, to be charitible.
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You're right, the highest calling is the inner-struggle. However, confronting inner-demons requires an ability to accept oneself as wrong infront of God. More would choose to fight an outer-demon, a face one can deal with instead of the depths of one's inner-self. The interpretations forged by Sal al-Din's father (sorry, can't remember his name) put forth the argument that facing and dying to a worldly enemy forgives all of one's sins.
Thus they have the same ideology that led us on the crusades a thousand years ago, only they have continued theirs to this day.