text: for muslims: is islam a religion of peace or jihad? after sept 11, 2001,  president george bush stated that islam is a religion peace that had been hijacked by a violent few.  is he wrong?  but with recent elections of hamas, a terrorist organization, and the and arab media like al-jazzera giving al-queda a prominent voice what is a person to think.    is the democratic election of hamas, proof that the majority muslims believe in jihad or terrorism.  where is the moderate muslim voice that condems these groups and promotes the religion of peace? what is the definition of terrorism?   to be even more fair, both hamas and israel need to be condemned. how come when innocent people die from the palastians side then israel is no blame, but when innocent people die in israel then all jump on the poor palastians?  murder is murder even if that person is blowing himself up, or carry a advance technological weapons shooting people.   muhammad has clearly forbid killing your own self and he said whoever killed himself is in hell forever. also in the quran it mentioned whoever kill an inocent soul with no right it's like killing the whole people. also muhammad forbid killing women and children even if they were from among the enemies.  the word jihad mean struggle with own self to do good. jihad dosen't always mean war and fight. jihad-fight is only allow to defend your country against any unfair attack which is common sense, but muslims are not allowed to fight those who did not fight them, neither allowed to kill people who come for peace or inocent people.   islam is not about peace of jihad, islam is about fair and truth. islam peaceful with those who are peaceful with it, and harsh on those who attacking them unfairly.  and every muslim will be questioned infront of god of the behavior he has done. there is different between people behavior/culture and what-islam-says.  you need to also count the psychological pressure on those people, social pressure, humiliation, no feeling of hope, people went thru bad exprience, people loose their love ones and want revenge...etc all that create hate and hate create terrorism.