"Offensive Jihad Is Permissible to Secure Islam's Borders, to Extend God's Religion, and..."

.... However there can be no disagreement that offensive jihad is not totally prohibited, for two schools [of Islamic jurisprudence] have ruled that offensive jihad is permissible in order to secure Islam's border, to extend God's religion to people in cases where the governments do not allow it, such as the Pharaoh did with the children of Israel, and to remove every religion but Islam from the Arabian peninsula, and to save the captive and weak. ... [Translating Jihad] Read more [via Jihad Watch]