Would You Open the Door When Jihad Knocks?

I had a recent post about the Pope's speech and Mullah Nasr-ud-din. I will do what I never do: insult my audience by assuming them to be in need of an explanation. The rope was a parallel to jihad: is it a method of compulsion or is it something else of a more spiritual nature? There is a story of the Prophet and the early muslim community returning from a fight for their lives(their own neighbors and clans wanted to destroy them at the time) and the Prophet saying that they now return from the small Jihad to the big Jihad. The big Jihad is the everyday struggle to be good and moral and godly. It is by far more difficult than the small Jihad. Thus we see our understanding of Jihad is faulty, mostly due to the execrable nature of news media which delights in feeding us drivel. The concept of big Jihad, the struggle of the individual to be good is rather parallel to my notion of Faith as an ongoing struggle to maintain the word of God in the world - every day and every hour. How difficult is this struggle? I saw a magazine with a picture of Bill O'Reilly. It said he was a culture warrior and Christianity was under attack in the US of A. Jesus condemns divorce. The USA has a 50% divorce rate. There doesn't seem to be much of a struggle here. It is we ourselves who are attacking Christianity, not someone else. It is we ourselves. The struggle is even more difficult if you fear to admit your own adherence to evil.