FALSE, FALSE, and more
FALSE.
The meaning of jihad is holy war. "Modern day extremists" ? Not hardly. Was it "modern day extremists" who, under Mohammed's orders, attacked caravans between Mecca and Medina ? Was it modern day extermists who branched out from the Arabian peninsula, and conquered non-Muslim people conquering more land on 3 continents, and people than the Roman empire ?
Was it "modern day extremists" who killed 270 million people around the world over the past 1400 years ? Your statements are absurd and couldn't be easier to refute. The 1400 year historical record speaks for itself.
When Muslims invaded Asia, north Africa, and southern Europe in the 477 years before the beginning of the Crusades, they had not been invaded. They WERE the invaders, taking their commands from Mohammed and the Koran.
And today's terrorists are not 1400 years old. They did not create the Koran. The Koran created them.
Purists like bin Laden see the attainment of a worldwide caliphate as the reward for following the Koran and Allah's will and drawing closer to him and his favor. They believe that the corruption of Muslim "values" and spiritual integrity has cost them Allah's favor, which lead to the decline of the caliphate that once ruled the world, from the Atlantic to the Indian
Ocean. In an al Qaeda training manual, bib Laden attributed the loss of the caliphate to a malaise in the Muslim world.
"The bitter situation that the nation has reached is a result of its divergence from Allah's course and his righteous law for all places and times. That [situation] came about as a result of its children's love for the world, their loathing of death, and their abandonment of jihad." (al Qaeda training manual,
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/laden.htm.)
Bin Laden, in his "State of Jihad" speech on Al-Jazeera also said: "The Umma and its youth, women, elderly, must offer themselves, their expertise, and all sort of financial support enough to raise jihad in the battlefields of jihad. Jihad today is a duty of every Muslim."
Of course jihad is holy WAR as these remarks attest, but that is only one part of jihad. There is also the ever-present non-violent jihad led by the Muslim Brotherhood and their hundreds of front groups, who step by step are Islamizing the West with their
stealth jihad (AKA Islamization) in hundreds of ways, with the same goal >> to destroy Western Civilization and erect an Islamic state (caliphate) in its place.
"The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process with all that the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood in North America] must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" their miserable house by their hands, and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated, and Allah's religion is made victorious over all religions."
Mohamed Akram,
"An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America" May 22, 1991, Government Exhibit 003-0085, United States vs. Holy Land Foundation, et al.
PS - you didn't answer my question regarding "cherry-picking" and the doctor convicted of murder.
