Originally posted by: Mugda
There are clear instructions in Quran to kill polytheists but in war and if they seek protection from Muslim they should be given protection and their lives will be saved.
Islam doesn't teach to respect other religions. It says the only religion acceptable by Allah is Islam and anyone seeking any other religion will be loser in afterlife. Its clearly written in Quran.
Islam allows to fight back in self-defense against the oppressors if we are attacked. Please read the context verses when you read such part of verse, or even read the whole chapter to understand it. The verse about killing polytheists was in a fight in Mohammad's time when a people attacked the believers and tried to expel the messenger ( 9:13) . It is not even about today that we should fight because that fight was in messenger's time if you read the chapter.
Please tell me how this is wrong? If fighting back against the oppressors is wrong and we should be killed by letting the oppressors then yes, islam will be violent for such people who think it is fine if innocents are getting killed and oppressed.
If we are not attacked, then we are told to deal with others kindly and equitably because God loves such people. I can bring the verses where it says, it is in 60th chapter and also many others chapters where it says similar. It is biggest offense to oppress the innocents when they are not attacking us. I can bring all the verses if you want. Oppression is worse than being killed. We have to deal with justly with others be it Muslims, believers, or others. It doesn't matter. I do know that parts of translations have been influenced by outside sources like hadiths, and not by Quran itself, so people think it is from Quran, I wish many Muslims had studied their own book rather than relying on scholars, etc or taking cultures as Islamic. Listening blindly to Imams or others is not good idea when you haven't even verified if it is coming from Quran or other sources because God says many times to verify the knowledge we get, to ponder, to think, to reason. We are told to have knowledge, and not blindly follow. Just look at Taliban and many, who don't even allow education for girls when God says many times to get it.
Such peaceful teachings is what made me accept this book is from God.
But these terrorists, who kill and oppress, in the name of islam are going against and completely the opposite of what God teachings. Instead of fighting oppression and be JUST even if we have to go against our close ones, they instead go kill innocents and oppress others.
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