These research scholars [who define jihad as defensive warfare], with their defeated mentality, have adopted the Western concept of 'religion', which is merely a name for 'belief' in the heart, having no relation to the practical affairs of life, and therefore they conceive of religious war as a war to impose belief on peoples' hearts.
Milestones, 76.
The important thing here is that Qutb is correct in finding the Western category of 'religion' as shallow and false. --AD
