Thank you OP for sheding further light on what Jihad is all about.

It is indeed a necessary call, something which ALL civilisation can respect, should a nation be ATTACKED. Defense is only universal, not only for muslims, but for christians, jews, and other ethnic fellow human brothers and sisters in sovereign states.

May it help and guide muslims around the world why US had to enter Afghanistan.

3000 of innocent humans and more on a regular basis around the world, of every religion including Islam died in 911 and after 911.

perpetrators were Al Queda - a radical outfit that had misused a peaceful religion to achieve its own ambition to end humanity, freely admitted by them. And thus, as innocent humanity had been mercilessly murdered with an absolutely unwarrented attack, an american jihad against the perpetrators whom were hiding in the Afghan/Pakistan border areas was justified.

There is no such thing as light, moderate or extreme Muslims. Either you are a muslim, following the peaceful religion as meant by Allah through His prophet - Muhammad, or you are not. Extremities such as the murder of our common Creator's children, worse when they are innocent, is an offense not only to Islam, but to every human that seeks only to love and live in peace.

Those whom committed or supported murders of innocents, including even muslims, in the name of unsanctioned Jihad, only contaminates the name of Allah, and must be sought out by ALL muslims to bring them to justice, or will be shared with their sin when the time comes to meet the Almighty ONE, even earlier if the cries for justice by innocents grows loud.

May the Taleban,clerics of Pakistan, Hezbollah, and every insane unsanctioned Jihadist whom are hiding or supported the radicals take heed. Nothing escapes the eyes of Allah.