Islam is Not a Religion of Peace
Islam is NOT a religion of peace. Muslims want Christians, Jews, and Pagans killed unless they convert to Islam. Liberal Islam claims that their religion is a religion of peace, but they do not believe in the Koran or the Hadith.
"It is our opinion that whoever claims the acceptability of any existing religion today-other than Islam-such as Judaism, Christianity and so forth, is a non-believer. He should be asked to repent. If he does not, he must be killed as an apostate because he is rejecting the Qu'ran." (Shaikh Muhammad as-Saleh al-Uthaimin, The Muslim's Belief, p. 22).
WHAT IS JIHAD?
Dictionaries define "Jihad" as
A Moslem holy war; campaign against unbelievers or enemies of Islam. (Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, p. 985).
A holy war undertaken as a sacred duty to Muslims (The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, p. 1029).
"Contest, war" -A Muhammedan war against unbelievers, campaign against the enemies of Islam. (Universal Dictionary of the English Language, p. 631).
[Struggle, contest, spec. one of the propagation of Islam.] A religious war of Mohammedans against unbelievers in Islam, inculcated as a duty by the Koran and traditions. (The Oxford Dictionary, vol. V, p. 583).
A holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty (Longman Dictionary of the English Language, p. 849).
Jihad, also spelled jehad, Arabic jiohad ("fight" or "battle"), a religious duty imposed on Muslims to spread Islam by waging war; jihad has come to denote any conflict waged for principle or belief and is often translated to mean "holy war." (The New Encyclopedia Britannica, vol 6).
In Islam, the duty of each Muslim to spread his religious beliefs is termed "jihad." Although the word is widely understood to mean a "holy war' against nonbelievers, jihad may also be fulfilled by a personal battle against evil inclinations, the righting of wrongs, and the supporting of what is good. (Academic American Encyclopedia, p. 418).
Many more dictionaries and encyclopedias can be quoted from.
Jihad is a divinely ordained institution in Islam. By many authorities, it is counted as one of the pillars of Islam...(Understanding Islam through the Hadis by Ram Swarup, p. 99).
"...Islam is the religion, after all, of the ferocious Ayatollahs, of suicide-bombings and hostage-taking; of the Afghan sects, who, no doubt, will soon be meting revenge on the collaborators with the Soviets. Salman Rushdie has learned this, in a very hard way...The Mahdi is the enemy of mankind, and particularly of womankind, and we need all the allies we can get. The world as a whole must unite to make sure that fundamentalist Islam does not get away with it..." (The Daily Telegraph, 19th February 1989--"We Need Russian Help Against Islam" (p.77),'
ISLAM COMMANDS VIOLENCE IN THE KORAN
"Fight and slay the pagans [i.e. infidels[' wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war." (Koran, Sura 9:5).
What are Muslim's supposed to do to people who resist Islam?
"Their punishment is...execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from the opposite sides, or exile from the land." (Koran, Sura 5:33).
The Qur'an tells Muslims to kill and go to war to fight for Islam: Quran, chapters (Surahs) 9:5; 2:191; 2:193; 3:118; 4:75,76; 5:33, 8:12; 8:65; 9:73,123; 33:60-62.
"And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers, (Quran 2:191).
"Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So fight the minions of the devil. Lo! the devil's strategy is ever weak," (Quran 4:76).
"The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter," (Quran 5:33).
"When thy Lord inspired the angels, (saying): I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite the necks and smite of them each finger. 13That is because they opposed Allah and His messenger. Whoso opposeth Allah and His messenger, (for him) lo! Allah is severe in punishment," (Quran 8:12).
"O Prophet! urge the believers to war; if there are twenty patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a hundred of you they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they are a people who do not understand," (Quran 8:65).
"Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful," (Quran 9:5).
"O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination," (Quran 9:73).
"O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil)," (Quran 9:123).
" . . . the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not desist . . . 61Cursed: wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered, a (horrible) murdering. 62(Such has been) the course of Allah with respect to those who have gone before; and you shall not find any change in the course of Allah, (Quran 33:60-62).
"Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of the necks until, when ye have routed them, then making fast of bonds; and afterward either grace or ransom till the war lay down its burdens . . . " (Quran 47:4).
"Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure," (Quran 61:4).
"Fight against them until there is no persecution and the religion of Allah's only" (Surah 2:193).
"Fight and slay the unbelievers wherever you find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war" (Surah 9:5).
"Fight those who do not believe in Allah" (Surah 9:29).
"O believers, fight against the unbelievers near you." (Surah 9:123).
THE VIOLENT HADITH
In his book, "Introduction to Islam," Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah states: "the custodian and repository of the original teachings of Islam' are found "above all in the Quran and the Hadith" (p. 250).
He also states: "the Quran and the Hadith' are "the basis of all [Islamic] law" (p. 163).
Mohammad told people not to kill in Mecca or the Kabah, but when he heard that Ibn Khatal was taking refuge at the Kabah, he said, "Kill him." Ibn was killed. (Hadith, vol. 3, no. 72).
Muhammad asked: "Who will kill Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf as he has harmed Allah and his Apostle?" Muhammad bin Maslama replied: "I will kill him." So Muhammad bin Maslama and his companions murdered him, and told the "Prophet." (Hadith, 3, no. 687).
The Hadith has commands to make war upon non-Muslims so they will convert.
Muhammad was asked: "What is the best deed?" He replied: "To believe in Allah and his Apostle." The questioner then asked "What is the next [in goodness]?" He answered: "To participate in Jihad [religious fighting] in Allah's cause." (Hadith, vol. 1, no. 25).
According to Anas bin Malik, Allah's Apostle vanquished them by force and their warriors were killed; their children and women were taken as captives. Safiya was taken by Dihya Al Kalbi and later she belonged to Allah's Apostle who married her. (Hadith, vol. 2, no. 68).
Dr. Muhammad Mushin Khan wrote an introduction to the Hadith which has a discourse on the subject of Jihad by Sheikh Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Hamid, Sacred Mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia (vol. 1, pp. 22-40?).
According to Sheikh Abdulla bin Muhammad bin Hamid, Muhammad: commanded the Muslims to fight against all the pagans as well as against the people of the scriptures [Jews and Christians] if they do not embrace Islam, until they pay the Jizya [tax levied on the Jews and the Christians who do not embrace Islam (p. 24).
People must convert or be conquered by military force (vol. 1, p. 22).
Chapter 19 of the Hadith speaks of those who convert to Islam
by compulsion or for fear of being killed (vol. 1, p. 27).
Muhammad said, "I have been ordered to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshiped but Alllah and that Muhammad is Allah's Prophet, and offer prayers and give obligatory charity, so if they perform all that, then they shall save their lives and property" (vol. 1, no. 24).
Muhammad warned the King of the Byzantines,
If you become Muslim you will be safe (vol. 1, no. 6).
In vol. 1, no. 104 of the Hadith, we read that Mecca was conquered by force to Islam.
In vol. 3, no. 495 we read "Allah made the Prophet wealthy through conquests."
Muhammad said, "Whoever has killed an enemy and has proof of that, will possess his spoils." (Hadith, vol. 4, no. 370).
Our Prophet, the Messenger of our Lord, has ordered us to fight you till you worship Allah alone or give Jizya (Hadith, vol. 4, no. 386).
No Muslims should be killed for killing an infidel. (vol. 4, no. 283; vol. 9, no. 50).
A Muslims is "to fight on [Muhammad's] behalf in his lifetime and after death" (Hadith, vol. 1, chapter 43).
Any Muslim who is killed while fighting in a Jihad will go straight to the sexual pleasures of Paradise (vol. 1, no. 25; vol. 4, no. 386).
Volume nine of the Hadith has a whole section on warning those who leave Islam. They will be murdered. (see vol. 9, pgs. 10-11, 26, 45-50, 341-342).
So, wherever you find them, kill them, for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection. (Hadith, vol. 9, no. 64).
Muhammad agreed to the murder of a man through lies and deceit (Hadith, vol. 5, no. 369).
Allah's Apostle vanquished them by force and their warriors were killed; their children and women were taken as captives. Safiya was taken by Dihya Al-Kalbi and later she belonged to the Allah's Apostle who married her. (vol. 2, no. 68).
Muhammad tortured people by cutting off their hands and feet, burning out their eyes with hot irons. (vol. 1, no. 234). He left them to bleed to death after cutting off their limbs (see vol. 8, nos. 794, 795). He made people die of thirst. (see vol. 8, no. 796--recorded by Anas bin Malik).
Today Christians are being tortured in prison in Egypt. There only "crime' was that they converted to Christianity. (Morey, The Islamic Invasion, p. 199).
Sudanese Muslims are presently capturing and then selling black women and children of the Dinka Christian Tribe for just $15 a head! (ibid).
No Muslim should be killed for killing an infidel. (see vol. 4, no. 283 & vol. 9, no. 50).
Non-Muslims are denied equal access to and equal protection before the law, because their testimony in court against a Muslim is not valid. (see vol. 3, chap. 31, pp. 525-526). This even applies to murder.
To learn about how Muslims have treated Jews and Christians for over 1400 years, read "The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam," By Bat Ye'or.
Thousands of believers in Christ have been slaughtered by Muslims in Egypt, Nigeria, Sudan, Kuwait, Indonesia, Malaysia and East Timor.
I also want to remind people of the murder of the Orthodox Sts. Raphael, Nicholas and Irene by Muslims, as well as all Orthodox Christians who have been killed by Muslims.
Islam is definitely not a religion of peace.