Honestly George, I think its silly to cut and paste definitions of jihad from Wiki.
If you want to understand Jihad, take some time to understand islamist ideology.
Moslems refer to the time before Islam as the Jahiliyyahthe so-called time of ignorance in Arabia before Muhammad (swish) opened up his direct line with God. Through centuries of jihad successes, empire building, and the annihilation or subjugation of many different cultures, Moslems became convinced that they really had passed out of this Jahiliyyah. The truth is, though, they ended up creating a new and far superior time of ignorance, brought on by unquestionable koranic literalism and a politicoreligious doctrine comprised mainly of delusions about a God who wants them to conquer the world by violent means.
The koran and the hadith, which are still interpreted literally, are a virulent manifesto of God-given Islamosupremacy, and they are the blueprint for the Religion of Peace's agenda. It's just easier to lay the blame on discrete group of mass murderers with a name, rather than the religious ideology that inspires them.
The holy warriors of al-Qaeda and all other jihad groups are simply pious Muslims who know their koran and sunnah, and who are following the books to the letter. They are back in those days of violent conquest and murder for God when these books were writtenthe days when they enjoyed so much success at fighting, killing, and subduing infidels. As then, now.
