Two events recently transpired that forced mainstream media to address a question they habitually dodge: Is Islam intrinsically violent? First, on New Year’s Day, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi—a world leader, and a Muslim—did the unthinkable when he publicly asserted that Islamic texts and thinking have made the Muslim world a scourge to humanity. The MSM ignored it until, as if to prove his point, Muslim gunmen shouting “Allahu Akbar” killed a dozen people in offices of a satirical newspaper in Paris.
Two separate editorials—by the New York Times and CNN—responded by purportedly tackling the question of whether Islam is inherently violent in the context of the Paris attack and Sisi’s speech. Both quoted me as responding in the affirmative —and both instantly dismissed my partially presented views in “straw-man” fashion.
In “After Paris attacks, 7 questions being asked about Islam,” CNN’s religion editor Daniel Burke writes that ongoing Islamic attacks
have led some critics to argue that Islam is inherently violent. To make their case they point to the “Sword Verse” in the Quran as Exhibit A.
Here’s what the verse says:
“Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way.”
Raymond Ibrahim, an author and frequent critic of Islam, argues that, based largely on that verse, “Islam’s learned officials, sheikhs, muftis, and imams throughout the ages have all reached consensus — binding on the entire Muslim community — that Islam is to be at perpetual war with the non-Muslim world until the former subsumes the latter.”
Many Muslims scoff at that argument, noting that the vast majority of Muslims are clearly not warring with other religions.
Even if “the majority of Muslims are clearly not warring with other religions,” is that evidence that Islam does not call for it? Since when have the actions of every single member of a religion perfectly mirrored that religion’s teachings? If most Christians do not turn the other cheek, does that mean Jesus never taught it? Does it mean not a single Christian will try to live according to this ideal?
In “Raising Questions Within Islam After France Shooting,” New York Times’ Cairo correspondent David Kirkpatrick tersely presents my position only to dismiss it in the same breath:
Raymond Ibrahim, the author of “Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians,” argued in an interview that the passages in the Bible are descriptive but the Quranic ones are prescriptive. But most scholars say such distinctions are matters of interpretation.
Both CNN and the NYT seem to cite me in connection to my 2009 Middle East Quarterly essay, “Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam? (currently viewed almost 100,000 times; CNN even links to it). It is therefore surprising that Kirkpatrick, in the paragraph introducing my position writes:
A handful of non-Muslim researchers in the West — typically outside the academic mainstream — seek to build a case that Islam is inherently more violent than Judaism or Christianity by highlighting certain Quranic verses. But they struggle to explain away approving passages about violence in other religious texts, such as the book of Joshua in the Old Testament, the Book of Revelation in the New Testament, or the statement attributed to Jesus by the Gospel writer Matthew that “I come not to bring peace, but a sword.”
“Struggle to explain away”? My nearly 5,000 word essay is dedicated to doing precisely that; it specifically examines and refutes the notion that violence in the Books of Joshua and Revelation and Jesus’ so-called “sword verse” are similar to Koranic violence and Muhammad’s calls to violence. Anyone interested in seeing how much of a “struggle” it is to show the difference is encouraged to read it.
More generally, anyone interested in learning how to respond to the “all religions have violent texts” argument is strongly urged to read “Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?” Along with addressing that question, I also dissect the writings of those making the exact opposite argument, including Karen Armstrong and academics John Esposito and Philip Jenkins (even as the Washington Post still gushes over the latter’s discredited attempts to portray the Bible as inspiring more violence than the Koran in a recent post titled “The Problem Isn’t Islam … It’s ALL Religious Fundamentalism”).
For those not up to reading nearly 5,000 words on the topic, a less comprehensive and shorter version I wrote nearly a decade ago follows.
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Is Islam Worse than Other Religions?
Since the terrorist strikes of 9/11, Islam has often been accused of being intrinsically violent. In response, a number of apologetics have been offered in defense of the religion. The fundamental premise of almost all of these is that Islam’s purported violence—as found in Islamic scriptures and history—is no different than the violence committed by other religious groups throughout history and as recorded in their scriptures, especially Jews and Christians. The argument, in short, is that it is not Islam per se but rather human nature that is prone to violence.
So whenever the argument is made that the Koran as well as the historical words and deeds of Islam’s prophet Muhammad and his companions evince violence and intolerance, the counter-argument is immediately made: What about the historical atrocities committed by the Hebrews in years gone by and as recorded in their scriptures (i.e. the Old Testament)? What about the brutal cycle of violence Christians have committed in the name of their faith against both fellow Christians and non-Christians?
Thereafter two examples—one biblical, the other historic—are often cited as paradigmatic of the religious violence inherent to both Judaism and Christianity.
The first is the genocide-like conquest of the land of Canaan by the Hebrews (c. 1200 BC). Yahweh told Moses:
But of the cities of these peoples which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, but you shall utterly destroy them—the Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite—just as Yahweh your God has commanded you, lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you sin against Yahweh your God (Deuteronomy 20: 16-18).
So Joshua [Moses’ successor] conquered all the land: the mountain country and the South and the lowland and the wilderness slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh God of Israel had commanded (Joshua 10:40).
The second example revolves around the Crusader wars waged by European Christians between the 11th-13th centuries. To be sure, the Crusades were a “counter-attack” on Islam—not an unprovoked assault as is often depicted by revisionist history. A united Christendom sought to annex the Holy Land of Jerusalem, which, prior to its conquest by Islam in the 7th century, was an integral part of Christendom for some 400 years.
Nonetheless, these Crusades were violent and bloody and countless atrocities were committed—all in the name of Christianity and under the banner of the cross. Perhaps the most infamous act of villainy perpetrated by these “fighters-for-Christ” is the 1204 sack of Constantinople, wherein Christian slew Christian in a violent bloodbath.
In light of the above—one a prime example of violence from the Bible, the other from Christian history—why should Islam be the one religion always characterized as intrinsically violent, simply because its holy book and its history also contain violence? Why should non-Muslims always point to the Koran and ancient history as evidence of Islam’s violence while never looking to their own scriptures and history?
While such questions are popular, they reveal a great deal of confusion between history and theology, between the temporal actions of men and the immutable words of God. The fundamental error being that Judeo-Christian history—which is violent—is being conflated with Islamic theology—which commands violence. Of course all religions have had their fair share of violence and intolerance towards the “other.” Whether this violence is ordained by God or whether warlike man merely wished it thus is the all-important question.
Old Testament violence is an interesting case in point. Yahweh clearly ordered the Hebrews to annihilate the Canaanites and surrounding peoples. Such violence is therefore an expression of God’s will, for good or ill. Regardless, all the historic violence committed by the Hebrews and recorded in the Old Testament is just that—history. It happened; God commanded it. But it revolved around a specific time and place and was directed against a specific people. At no time did such violence go on to become standardized or codified into Jewish law (i.e. the Halakha).
This is where Islamic violence is unique. Though similar to the violence of the Old Testament—commanded by God and manifested in history—certain aspects of Islamic violence have become standardized in Islamic law (i.e. the Sharia) and apply at all times. Thus while the violence found in the Koran is in fact historical, its ultimate significance is theological. Consider the following Koranic verses:
Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the pagans wherever you find them—take them [captive], besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due [i.e. submit to Islam], then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful (9:5).
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger [i.e. Islamic law], nor acknowledge the religion of Truth [i.e. Islam], from the people of the book [i.e. Jews and Christians], until they pay tribute with willing submission, and feel themselves utterly subdued (9:29).
As with Old Testament verses where Yahweh commanded the Hebrews to attack and slay their neighbors, these Koranic verses also have a historical context. Allah (through Muhammad) first issued these commandments after the Arab tribes had finally unified under the banner of Islam and were preparing to invade their Christian and pagan neighbors. But unlike the bellicose verses and anecdotes of the Old Testament, these so-called “sword-verses” subsequently became fundamental to Islam’s relationship to both the “people of the book” (i.e. Christians and Jews) and the “pagans” (i.e. Hindus, Buddhists, animists, etc.).
In fact, based on the sword-verses (as well as countless other Koranic verses and oral traditions attributed to Muhammad), Islam’s scholars, sheikhs, muftis, imams, and qadis throughout the ages have all reached the consensus—binding on the entire Muslim community—that Islam is to be at perpetual war with the non-Muslim world, until the former subsumes the latter. (It is widely held that the sword-verses alone have abrogated some 200 of the Koran’s more tolerant verses.) Famous Muslim scholar and “father of modern history” Ibn Khaldun articulates the dichotomy between jihad and defensive warfare thus:
In the Muslim community, the holy war [i.e. jihad] is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force… The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense… They are merely required to establish their religion among their own people. That is why the Israeilites after Moses and Joshua remained unconcerned with royal authority [e.g. a “caliphate”]. Their only concern was to establish their religion [not spread it to the nations]… But Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations (The Muqudimmah, vol. 1 pg. 473, emphasis added).
Even when juxtaposed to their Old Testament counterparts, the sword-verses are distinctive for using language that transcends time and space, inciting believers to attack and slay non-believers today no less than yesterday. Yahweh commanded the Hebrews to kill Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—all specific peoples rooted to a specific time and place. At no time did Yahweh give an open-ended command for the Hebrews, and by extension their descendants the Jews, to fight and kill gentiles. On the other hand, though Islam’s original enemies were, like Judaism’s, historical (e.g. Christian Byzantines and pagan Persians), the Koran rarely singles them out by their proper names. Instead, Muslims were (and are) commanded to fight the people of the book—“until they pay tribute with willing submission and feel themselves utterly subdued” (9:29) and to “slay the pagans wherever you find them” (9:5). The two conjunctions “until” and “wherever” demonstrate the perpetual nature of these commandments: there are still “people of the book” who have yet to be “utterly subdued” (especially in the Americas, Europe, and Israel) and “pagans” to be slain “wherever” one looks (especially Asia and sub-Saharan Africa).
Aside from the divine words of the Koran, Muhammad’s pattern of behavior—his “Sunna” or “example”—is an extremely important source of legislation in Islam. Muslims are exhorted to emulate Muhammad in all walks of life: “You have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern [of conduct]” (33:21). And Muhammad’s pattern of conduct vis-à-vis non-Muslims is quite explicit. Sarcastically arguing against the concept of “moderate” Islam, terrorist Osama bin Laden, who enjoys half the Arab-Islamic world’s support per a recent al-Jazeera poll, portrays the prophet’s Sunna thus:
“Moderation” is demonstrated by our prophet who did not remain more than three months in Medina without raiding or sending a raiding party into the lands of the infidels to beat down their strongholds and seize their possessions, their lives, and their women” (from The Al-Qaeda Reader).
In fact, based on both the Koran and Muhammad’s Sunna, pillaging and plundering infidels, enslaving their children, and placing their women in concubinage is well founded (e.g. 4:24, 4:92, 8:69, 24:33, 33:50, etc.).
While law-centric and legalistic, Judaism has no such equivalent to the Sunna; the words and deeds of the patriarchs, though recorded in the Old Testament, never went on to be part of Jewish law. Neither Abraham’s “white-lies,” nor Jacob’s perfidy, nor Moses’ short-fuse, nor David’s adultery, nor Solomon’s philandering ever went on to instruct Jews or Christians. They were merely understood to be historical actions perpetrated by fallible men who were often punished by God for their less than ideal behavior.
As for Christianity, much of the Old Testament law was abrogated by Jesus. “Eye for an eye” gave way to “turn the other cheek.” Totally loving God and one’s neighbor became supreme law (Matt 22:38-40). Furthermore, Jesus’ “Sunna”—as in “What would Jesus do?”—is characterized by passivity and altruism.
And it is from here that one can best appreciate the Crusades. However one interprets these wars—as offensive or defensive, just or unjust—it is plainly evident that they were not based on the teachings of the New Testament or the example of Jesus who exhorted his followers to “love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you” (Matt 5:44). The Crusaders—not the jihadists—are the ones who have contradicted their religion.
In fact, far from suggesting anything intrinsic to Christianity, the Crusades ironically help better explain Islam. For what the Crusades demonstrated once and for all is that irrespective of religious teachings—indeed, in the case of these “Christian” Crusades, despite them—man is truly predisposed to violence and intolerance. But this begs the question: If this is how Christians behaved—who are commanded to love, bless, and do good to their enemies who hate, curse, and persecute them—how much more can be expected of Muslims who, while sharing the same violent tendencies, are further commanded by the Deity to attack, kill, and plunder non-believers?
Excellent summary. Thankyou.
I refer anyone who claims “all religions are as bad as each other”, to Sam Harris’ little piece here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMFsO58hXVM
That usually changes their mind.
The rebuttal to anyone who raises the alarm about Islam is almost always, “Christians too! Christians too!”. Especially at times when the evidence of Muslim malevolence is irrefutable.
Raymond, Hello old friend. Here is some interesting food for thought about the Old Testaments version of the Hebrews and the Canaanites.
In 1962, Professor George E. Mendenhall, after years examining the evidence, proposed a very different view of what happened to the original Canaanites.His work is gaining ground among archaeologists and historians.
“In his view, the Yahwistic faith, and the concept of a community related to Yahweh by covenant, were brought to Canaan by a group of former slave-labour captives who had escaped from oppression in Egypt. When this group reached Canaan, the loyalty and obligations of the covenant community proved ‘attractive to all persons suffering under the burden of subjection to a monopoly of power…’, who therefore identified themselves with the former slaves and rapidly swelled their community.But the original nucleus of Israel was ‘only a small group’; ‘there was no statistically important invasion of Canaan.”.
Also the archaeological record has no evidence to support the annihilation of the entire population of Canaan by the Hebrews..Instead, it is believed most of the Israelites were originally Canaanites, combined with a smaller group of refugees who worshiped YHWH, The two groups intermarried and intermingled, eventually adopting an appealing new religion that offered them hope of redemption from their suffering at the hands of their rulers.
Why the Old Testament tells the story as it does is an interesting question, but the bottom line is that there is no command in the Old Testament to kill non-Jews forever until every single human is either a Jew or dead or a virtual slave paying blood money. As a matter of fact, Judaism is the only major religion that does not proselytize or openly accept anyone who wants to convert. To actually convert to Judaism is a complicated process that take several years of study with a Rabbi, who also must approve of the person’s reason for wanting to convert to Judaism.
Thank you, Mr. Bachner. This is a succinct and valuable summary of your studies in this area. I believe that it would be worthwhile to have this analysis more widely known.
The magazine of far left Charlie Hebo is a Zionist neoconservative collabo operation of communication, a organ to incitement to racial hatred & propaganda tool which, in the context of conflict of civilizations, who diabolize the Muslims, rise the communauties against each other, who push to the intercommunal civil war in France to deflect the economic ‘crisis’ and the responsabilities of the traitors corrupted Socialists submissive to the Neoliberal Capitalist Elites, Wall Street, FMI ect. Before it was the native-born French who were diabolized face to the North Africans; Maghrebians because the system wanted at all costs validate the immigration desired by the Globalist Elites, employers, head of compagnies.. and all reactions of resistance; social or cultural which is anthropologically fatal & legitimate were juged as a ignoble racist act.
January 7th St. Winebald Day was a Blood Ritual holiday in the Satanic Ritual Agenda. It smell the orchestred operation like other attacks in France (similitudes with Merah et Nemouche cases). The intelligence French services & probably foreign services (Mossad) use some scapegoats who go abroad for Jihad and they manipulate & betray them, perhaps also some Salafis Muslims riffraff converted in prison or it’s perpetrate by other killers and they accuse some scapegoat muslims at bottom of the social ladder. It would be really surprising that this would be the work of some independant radical Islamist Jihadists. All these false flag attacks in Ottawa, Boston, Sydney… Always for increase the fear towards Muslims (Islamophobia), the tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims, strengthen the terrorist threat in the population. Don’t fall with the speech of ”it’s an attack on freedom of speech & to the democracy…”. The Zionists push to the war the Muslims and Nationalists. Divide and Rule. The clash of cultures between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Natives, Asians ect. in America, rise them them against each other, same in Western Europe, the clash of civilization between Europeans, Arabs and Africans, the Union European which aims to destruct the Nations & identities of Peoples, they have open Europe’s borders to a massive immigration of Africans & Muslims to annoy natives Europeans. They push to the Ethno-religious war between ‘Christians’ (Nationalists) and Muslims. The Muslims are defamed and demonized by the Western World, they are scapegoats, the good Muslims pay the heavy price for the extremist traitors bankrolled by Zionists. The ”War on Terror” is a war against Islam given that it’s one of the last major Bastion of ‘Resistance’ in front of New World Order; Globalism, Capitalist.. because the Muslims are a lot less focus on the material pleasures, on the consumer society, to the materialist spirit, mercantile. It was the same before for the Catholics, but since the French Revolution of 1789 precipitated by the Bavarian Illuminati, Talmudist Jews, Freemasons.., the law on secularism of 1905 and more precisely since Vatican II, the huge majority of Catholics of birth are no longer real ‘Catholics’.. (the decadence, the reverse of moral & fundamental vallues ect.) it’s completely paganized, dechristianized. The real Christians have been set aside, they are not any more in the landscape politic, the cultural scene ect. All the fake corrupted prostestant pastors & preachers, it’s a Disaster. In Western Europe it’s full of Muslims, Africans, Gypsies, Asians ect. The Muslims who try dictate their lifetyle, manners, customs, the fanatics who want spread Islam everywhere & impose Sharia it’s a big problem particulary in France, Great Britain, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain.. more and more Nationalist Groups emerge in these Countries, (also in Russia, Poland, Serbia, Greece..) claiming a stop to a disproportionate immigration, stop immigrants who don’t work benefits tax credit, refuse to miscegenate & destroy their genetic heritage despite deluge of Race-Mixing Propaganda. The Elites want more and more mixed-race or multiracial to better control them, that’s why they promote the multiculturalism as much as possible, as a result the humans are more and more acculturated in favor of a culture standardized, generalized, globalised; the New World Order.
Many apostles warn the men about fake prophets. Satan transform himself in Angel of light for cheat the Mens like the Devil (or some powerful demon) do with Muhammad: 2Corinthians11:14. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. We regnonize a tree by his fruits, Jesus is pure love instead Allah of Islam demand the death of all non-Muslims. Persecution of Christians by Islam: John 16.2. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
There is evidently a Islam more moderate (more peaceful), there is also the ‘Wahhabism’, the ‘Takfirism’ a Islamism lead astray very radical.
But Islam unfortunately for the good faithful Muslims, Muhammad is a false prophet. There’s some good values in Koran like the respect of the family, respect of elders, the family structure, the discipline, a certain virility, follow the rules… but go read some Sura and you can say that is not the words of God or peace, there some verses pretty well malicious, pro-war, cowards and rather satanic, if you see the chronology of the reign of Muhammad, there a lot of massacres; like one of them in 627: extermination of the Bann Quayza Jewish Tribe (600 to 990 persons including male childs) by his army, Jewish mens and post-pubescent boys were taken in parties of five or six to the market place, they were beheaded and their bodies were tossed in trenches. Hysterical women & children screamed as they watched their fathers, husband & son die. It is inconceivable that a messenger of God could kill between 600 to 900 people and banish thousand more with no feelings or compassion. Muhammad was not a ”mercy of God to mankind” but the curse of devil to humanity. During his early days of Prophetohood Muhammad was called a madman and was mock by many, eventually he got fed up so once he gained enough political power to started to assassinate those who undermined his authority. He kill all the people who did not agree with him; his opponents, rivals; One of his victims was Ka’b bin al-Ashraf; ”Allah’s Messenger said, ‘Who is ready to kill Ka`b bin Ashraf? He said injurious things about Allah and his Apostle. ‘Maslama got up saying would you like me to kill him? ‘ The Prophet proclaimed’ Yes. ‘Maslam said, ‘Then allow me to lie so that i will be able to deceive him. ‘Muhammad said, ‘You may do so,” – (The Hadith Bukhari: Volume 5, Book 59 Number 369:). This hadith goes on to describe how Maslama and two other tricked and killed al-Ashraf. He was killed for simply insulting him, hoe can Muhammad be a ‘prophet’ if he promotes murder and lying? Is the Islamic ‘Allah’ God, or is he Satan who would be ok with murder and lies? Muhammad had over 11 wives, one of them was only six when he married her and consummated his marriage to aisha when she was nine! A report who say than he have cheated one of them: Hafsa bint Umar on their marital bed with Maria Quptia a Christian slave, the maid of Hafsa. Muhammad was a slaver, he owned 40 slaves some of them blacks he had kept his female slaves as concubines, so did his comrades and pious companions. He often send raid parties to rob Meccan Caravans coming back and forth Syria.
Again nowadays there’s some extremists indoctrinate who take the Koran to the letter, commit honour killing and persecute people, but the majority of Muslims are good people and dont persecute the Chistians. The ‘good’ Muslims (not extremists), Christians (not corrupt) and Jews (not Talmudists or Kabbalists Sorcerers) have the Talmudist/Kabbalists Zionists Jews, Illuminati, Masons.. who worship Satan, Baphomet (Goat of Mendes), Mammon, Moloch.. like common enemies, but the Muslims worship Allah which is an old Pagan Lunar God, probably a powerful evil spirit or demon that Satan hide himself behind. When Muhammad have received his ‘revelations’ by the entity, he felt it was like a evil spirit and he was frightened.. You’re not suppose to feel fear if it’s a positive entity. So it’s not the Angel Gabriel he have seen in the cave. There is Sura in Islam who is a declaration of war against infidels. Infidels can be murdered by Muslims as a law of Allah Not only can they all be murdered but the wives and daughters of the murdered infidels can be taken as booty, raped, and then sold as slaves. Their sons can be sold into slavery. As a law of Allah, Muslims can then loot and pillage the property of the murdered infidels, and must share the booty obtained from the sale of boys and women and the proceeds of looting with Allah. How a Prophet of God can promote Murders, executions, persecutions, rapes of infidels, Slavery, Stealing of caravans ect. According to the work of Muhammad and his disciples, Allah is not the God of Truth & Love, but rather a God of War.
Quran-9:29, Fight those who believe neither in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth (Islam), even if they are of the People of the Book (Christians and Jews), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
Quran-3:85, ”If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah), never will it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter He will be in the ranks of those who have lost (All spiritual good).”
Quran-9:39, Unless ye go forth, (for Jihad) He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. [Allah’s hatred to those who are reluctant to join Islamic jihad]
Quran-9:73, O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge indeed.
Quran-8:65: ”O Apostle! Rouse the believers to fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred; if a 100 , they will vanquish a 1,000 of the unbelievers..”
Quran-8:66:”…if there are a 100 of you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish 2,00, and if a 1,000 , they will vanquish 2,000 (two thousands) with the leave of Allah…”
Quran-2:193, And fight them on until there is no more Tumult or oppression
Quran-2:216, Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you.
Quran-5:33, The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;
Quran-4:89— ”They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades (change to other religions), seize them and kill them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks;(Punishment for the apostates).
Quran-9:5, But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem
Quran-9:28, O ye who believe! Truly the Pagans are unclean; so let them not, after this year of theirs, approach the Sacred Mosque. (This verse is a glaring example how much hatreds Islam possess against non-Muslims).
Quran-8:67—”It is not fitting for an Apostle that he should have prisoners of war until He thoroughly subdued the land….” (Allah insisting Prophet to kill all the prisoners, and should not keep any surrendered prisoners alive)
Quran-8:17—It is not ye who Slew them; it is God; when thou threwest a handful of dust, it was not Thy act, but God’s…..” (Allah said, the killing of surrendered soldiers weQuran: 9:23: “O ye who believe! Take not for protectors your fathers and your brothers if they love Infidelity above Faith: if any of you do so, they do wrong”. [Quran is asking Muslims even to go against their own father and brothers in respect of religious faith]re done by the wish of Allah)
Quran: 3:28: ”Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah”
Quran: 5:45: We ordained therein for them: ”Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear. Tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal.” (Does this verse sound humane?)
47:4- ”Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), strike off their heads; at length; then when you have made wide Slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives”: thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens.”
9:123: ”Oh ye who believe! Murder those of the disbelievers and let them find harshness in you.”
2:191- ”Kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from wherever they drove you out.”
The Devil in disguise.. The Qur’an is full of heinous, inhuman, and utterly dreadful cruel verses. The main themes of Quranic or scriptural instruction are: pursuance by advice, then by intimidation/coercion, then by force (killing, fighting, maiming etc), and in return plenty of heavenly reward from Allah. We can find hundreds of cruel hateful and utterly inhuman verses throughout the Qur’an. The above Qur’anic scriptures incited early Muslim Jihadis of 7th century period to kill thousands of non-Muslims and other infidels. During the early period of Islam, especially during Islamic expeditions by Prophet Muhammad himself while he was in Medina, thousands of infidels were brutally killed (beheaded) by the Jihadis. These same Quranic verses are still inciting devout/fanatical Muslims.
Long winded, with elements of modern “conspiracy of the elites” theory (much of which, is not impossible); but on the whole, well enough stated.
Yes Islam is vile, but this is not a Zionist plot. Get over your hitler worship. Islam doesn’t need any help from Jews to slaughter non-Muslims and Muslims who don’t worship the right way.