Jihad If Muslims Are Living In Minority And Are Being Oppressed
Jihad can only be done when the Muslims are organized under a government, and the government feels that it has capacity to win the war. It must be made clear that the confilct between Muslims and the non-Muslims should be of persecution: threat to life, property and honour for having faith in Islam or practicing it, or for other basic rights. Political or cultural conflicts which arises presenday between different communities are sometimes do not fulfil the criteria of persecution. These are sometimes confilcts of political interests and rivalries and due to over sensitivity to communal identities which lead them to fall into a conflict.
So what are muslims supposed to do in that case, get killed, tortured or get banished? If muslims uses arms against the oppressor then it will be more like a self defiance?