Allah Almighty said in Quran.
"Islam is the same religion that Allah Almighty had enjoined on Noah,Abraham and Isa and other prophets before them."
A true Muslim has strong belief on the day of judgment. He believe on the rewards and punishments on that day.
That's why a good Muslim always try to do good deeds to be successful on that day. When he stops him from bad deeds we say that he is on jihad against himself. In Islam we can fight against evils of society through our heart, the tongue, the hand. So we can say that in Islam jihad is spiritual against evils.
The concept of Jehad is still misunderstood not only in the West but also by a few Muslims -specially those struggling for freedom or who have been victim of human right abuses by their rulers. Although suicide is prohibited, martyrdom in the course of Jihad is matter of great honor to be rewarded by Allah by a special place in paradise. Volunteering for suicide squads is not unique to Arabs. In many other countries like Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia etc such spirit is seen.
It would be observed that the countries that are worst affected by terrorism are those whose record of human rights abuses is bad or those who give aid to or favor the countries using brute state power to crush freedom movement. Desperate people burning with the desire of vengeance but having little means to fight with the State power resort to terrorist acts. But Islam does not permit such brutalities whatever the cause may be and killing of innocent people is prohibited.- See more at: www.paklink.biz/articles/islam.html#sthash.mtgfeRNd.dpuf
The concept of jihad is misunderstood not only by non Muslims but also by a few Muslims.As we all know that suicide is prohibited in Islam and martyrdom has great reward by Allah.
So we should not mix suicide with Jihad.
