More Problematic Books Found for Sale at Local Islamic Book Store

Don't worry though. I'm sure the author was referring to the nice jihad--that personal, internal struggle to be a good person--and not the naughty one--the imperative to seek total global dominance:

TORONTO - An Islamic bookstore in east Toronto is selling books that urge Muslims to usurp the Western world and install an Islamic State in its place.

The books, written by deceased Islamic scholar Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi – are available at the Islamic Circle of North America bookstore in Scarborough.

“Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation that rules it,” Maududi wrote in Jihad in Islam. “Islam requires the earth – not just a portion – but the whole planet.”

Maududi was an influential Pakistani journalist, theologian and Muslim revivalist leader who wrote more than 120 books and pamphlets and lived from 1903 to 1979.

He is described in the preface of one of the books as an author who “provided the present-day revival of Islam with its intellectual foundations.”

Maududi’s books carry a common theme of Islam as a revolutionary “ideology and program which seeks to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals.”

“Jihad,” which he refers to in at least one book as a war against non-Muslims, is in fact “undertaken for the collective well-being of mankind” to establish “God’s order” in the world and create a “just and equitable social order among human beings,” he wrote.

Terrorism expert David Harris calls such material — antiquated or not — incredibly “problematic” to National security, but goes on to say that because of Canada’s freedom of expression legislation, police and the courts, in many cases, can’t do much about it.

“This is highly problematic,” said Harris, adding that with Canada’s ever expanding immigration of people from Middle Eastern countries - such as Egypt — the chances of importing people with radical ideologies also increases. “What we’re seeing now is not even a hint of what we will be living ... We’re going to see an expanding of these tendencies.” 

A request for the Islamic Society of Toronto to speak about the books was not immediately returned...

Let me take a stab at explaining it a la a Maududian: "You kafirs are paranoid Islamophobes. You have taken these words out of context. You can't understand what's being said unless you can read the holy Koran in the original Arabic. The highest form of jihad is an internal struggle to follow where Allah leads. Allow me to direct your attention to this passage in the Jews' Leviticus: now, that stuff is really disturbing."

Did I leave anything out?

Update: Coren show regular Marianne Meed Ward walks like a Maududian (via vladtepes).