Jihad is a pillar of Islam. No Jihad -> No Islam. It’s totally necessary to get Americans comfortable with seeing Jihad, Uh, as a word, just a word.
Some spiritualize away this concept, that it only has to do with struggle against evil... but we have a problem in that the METHODS prescribed are frequently antisocial.
The best resistance to this will have to come from a new gospel consciousness. We need to know gold well before we can spot the pyrite.