Professor of Bible and theology at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, C. S. Cowles, states:
βWe hang our heads to admit it, but jihad ("holy war") is not a Muslim invention. Its origins and justification are to be found in the Hebrew Scriptures. Moses was the first in known history to spell out an ideology of "holy war" that dictated--unlike Muhammad's reformulation--the genocidal destruction of enemies. Moses and Joshua were the first to engage in campaigns of "ethnic cleansing" as herem ("acts of religious devotion"). It is to these texts that Christians have appealed, from St. Augustine in the fourth century to Orthodox Serbs in the twentieth, in justifying the mass destruction of human beings."
- C. S. Cowles. 2003. βThe Case For Radical Discontinuity,β In: πβππ€ πβππ ππ πππππ¦: 4 ππππ€π ππ πΊππ πππ πΆπππππππ‘π πΊπππππππ, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, pp. 16-17
We didn't create jihad but it is still from Allah. We also don't concede these narratives in the corrupted scriptures written about prior prophets doing things like genocide that killed children and other immoral actions. The Jews and Christians do believe these things so it a problem for them.