Why do you say that? Can you come up with a single teaching of Islam that is against humanity as a whole? And if you know of any such, also read the previous and following verses to see what is the context. Anyway, do you want me to give you some references about the rights of non-Muslims in Islam?
I don't know why I bother posting these, as you have clearly shown yourself to be truth-resistant. "Now when you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks until you overcome them fully..." (47:4). "O you who have attained to faith! Fight against those unbelievers who are near you and let them find you adamant, and know that God is with those who are conscious of Him" (9:123). "O Prophet! Strive hard (lit., make "jihad") against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be adamant with them... " (66:73). "Slay the pagans wherever you may come upon them, and take them captive, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every conceivable place..." (9:5).
Index to some of the verses of Quran * Torment to Non-believers-> 4:56 * Only Islam Acceptable-> 3:85 * No friends from outsiders-> 3:118 * No friends with Jews, Christians-> 5:51 * No friends with non believers->4:114 3:28 * No friends with parents/siblings if not believers-> 9:23 * Fight non-believers-> 9:123 * Kill non-believers-> 4:89 * Anti Jew verses-> 5:82 * God a "plotter", deceiver -> 8:30 * Killing Idolaters-> 9:05 * Idolaters are unclean just because they are idolater-> 9:28 * Forcing Christians and Jews to pay tax-> 9:29 * The Torment of Hell-> 44:43-58 * All except Muslims/Jews/Christians/Sabeans will go to hell-> 2:62 5:69 * Cast terror in the hearts, smite the neck and cut fingertips of unbelievers-> 8:12 * smite the neck of unbelievers->47:4 * Severe Punishment for atheists-> 10:4 5:10 5:86 * Severe Punishment for non-believers-> 22:19-22 72:23 98:6 * Punishing non-believers of Hereafter-> 17:10 * Punishing for rejecting faith-> 3:91 * Non believers go to hell-> 4:140 7:36 * Partial Believers go to hell too-> 4:150-1 * Sadistic punishments-> 56:42-43 * Punishment for apostates-> 16:106 3:86-88 3:90 4:137 * Threat of punishment for not going to war-> 9:38-39 48:16 * God making someone more sinful so he can be punished more-> 3:178 * Intentionally preventing unbelievers from knowing the truth-> 6:25 6:110 * Intentionally preventing unbelievers from Understanding Quran-> 17:45-76 * It is God who causes people to err and He punishes them for that-> 17:97 * God could guide, if he chose to, but did not-> 6:35 * Intentionally misguiding those whom he pleases to->14:4 * Willfully misguiding some-> 16:93 * God causes human to err-> 4:143 7:178 * God deceiving human-> 4:142 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apostates: http://www.isna.net/Library/Hadith/muslim/001_smt.html#009_b1 (start with hadith no. 30) http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/084.sbt.html#009.084.057 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/084.sbt.html#009.084.064 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/083.sbt.html#009.083.037 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/083.sbt.html#009.083.017 Punishment for insulting the prophet: http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/abudawud/038.sat.html (scroll down to 4348) Mohammed and Aisha: http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/058.sbt.html#005.058.236 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/004.sbt.html#001.004.231 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/004.sbt.html#001.004.233 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.017 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.067 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/073.sbt.html#008.073.151 Kill those nasty animals! http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/054.sbt.html#004.054.525 (hadiths 525-529) http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/054.sbt.html#004.054.531 (hadiths 531 + 532) http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/054.sbt.html#004.054.540 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/004.smt.html#004.1032 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/010.smt.html#010.3809 (hadiths 3809-3812) http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/quran_teaches.htm
This is the actual verse. Would you ask someone to sit hand on hands when in war? [47:4]If you encounter (in war) those who disbelieve, you may strike the necks. If you take them as captives you may set them free or ransom them, until the war ends. Had GOD willed, He could have granted you victory, without war. But He thus tests you by one another. As for those who get killed in the cause of GOD, He will never put their sacrifice to waste. This is actual verse: [9:123] O you who believe, you shall fight the disbelievers who attack you - let them find you stern - and know that GOD is with the righteous. The Surah 66 has only 12 verses. This was for Muhammad (PBUH) and his companions when they wanted to fight the pagans who were inflicting attrocities upon them but Muhammad (PBUH) had asked them to wait and not retaliate till the green signal from God would come.
My bad, I must have typoed that one. It's actually 9:73: O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them.... (9:73) As for the others, I see that you have rewritten some to be less straightforward and honest. You cannot deny that Muhammad was an expansionist warlord. It's more than a bit silly to try to reword Islamic expansionism as "defense." Muhammad kept finding new groups to "defend" himself against as each previous group was murdered or enslaved. Muhammad "defended" himself against poetry by murdering poets. That's more than a bit of a stretch to your weak "defense" argument.
I trust that Osama bin Laden saw the 9/11 attack as "defending Islam" in exactly the same way that Muhammad saw murdering those poets as "defending Islam." Muhammad constantly imagined himself being attacked, and therefore all of his thievery, rapes, and murders were "in defense."
Question: How can Islam be called the religion of peace when it was spread by the sword? Answer: It is a common complaint among some non-Muslims that Islam would not have millions of adherents all over the world, if it had not been spread by the use of force. The following points will make it clear, that far from being spread by the sword, it was the inherent force of truth, reason and logic that was responsible for the rapid spread of Islam. 1. Islam means peace. Islam comes from the root word ‘salaam’, which means peace. It also means submitting one’s will to Allah (swt). Thus Islam is a religion of peace, which is acquired by submitting one’s will to the will of the Supreme Creator, Allah (swt). 2. Sometimes force has to be used to maintain peace. Each and every human being in this world is not in favour of maintaining peace and harmony. There are many, who would disrupt it for their own vested interests. Sometimes force has to be used to maintain peace. It is precisely for this reason that we have the police who use force against criminals and anti-social elements to maintain peace in the country. Islam promotes peace. At the same time, Islam exhorts it followers to fight where there is oppression. The fight against oppression may, at times, require the use of force. In Islam force can only be used to promote peace and justice. 3. Opinion of historian De Lacy O’Leary. The best reply to the misconception that Islam was spread by the sword is given by the noted historian De Lacy O’Leary in the book "Islam at the cross road" (Page 8): "History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myth that historians have ever repeated." 4. Muslims ruled Spain for 800 years. Muslims ruled Spain for about 800 years. The Muslims in Spain never used the sword to force the people to convert. Later the Christian Crusaders came to Spain and wiped out the Muslims. There was not a single Muslim in Spain who could openly give the adhan, that is the call for prayers. 5. 14 million Arabs are Coptic Christians. Muslims were the lords of Arabia for 1400 years. For a few years the British ruled, and for a few years the French ruled. Overall, the Muslims ruled Arabia for 1400 years. Yet today, there are 14 million Arabs who are Coptic Christians i.e. Christians since generations. If the Muslims had used the sword there would not have been a single Arab who would have remained a Christian. 6. More than 80% non-Muslims in India. The Muslims ruled India for about a thousand years. If they wanted, they had the power of converting each and every non-Muslim of India to Islam. Today more than 80% of the population of India are non-Muslims. All these non-Muslim Indians are bearing witness today that Islam was not spread by the sword. 7. Indonesia and Malaysia. Indonesia is a country that has the maximum number of Muslims in the world. The majority of people in Malaysia are Muslims. May one ask, "Which Muslim army went to Indonesia and Malaysia?" 8. East Coast of Africa. Similarly, Islam has spread rapidly on the East Coast of Africa. One may again ask, if Islam was spread by the sword, "Which Muslim army went to the East Coast of Africa?" 9. Thomas Carlyle. The famous historian, Thomas Carlyle, in his book "Heroes and Hero worship", refers to this misconception about the spread of Islam: "The sword indeed, but where will you get your sword? Every new opinion, at its starting is precisely in a minority of one. In one man’s head alone. There it dwells as yet. One man alone of the whole world believes it, there is one man against all men. That he takes a sword and try to propagate with that, will do little for him. You must get your sword! On the whole, a thing will propagate itself as it can." 10. No compulsion in religion. With which sword was Islam spread? Even if Muslims had it they could not use it to spread Islam because the Qur’an says in the following verse: "Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from error" [Al-Qur’an 2:256] 11. Sword of the Intellect. It is the sword of intellect. The sword that conquers the hearts and minds of people. The Qur’an says in Surah Nahl, chapter 16 verse 125: "Invite (all) to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious." [Al-Qur’an 16:125] 12. Increase in the world religions from 1934 to 1984. An article in Reader’s Digest ‘Almanac’, year book 1986, gave the statistics of the increase of percentage of the major religions of the world in half a century from 1934 to 1984. This article also appeared in ‘The Plain Truth’ magazine. At the top was Islam, which increased by 235%, and Christianity had increased only by 47%. May one ask, which war took place in this century which converted millions of people to Islam? 13. Islam is the fastest growing religion in America and Europe. Today the fastest growing religion in America is Islam. The fastest growing religion in Europe in Islam. Which sword is forcing people in the West to accept Islam in such large numbers? 14. Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson. Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson rightly says, "People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born".
Committing violence against those who disagree seems to be the only context for Islam. Did you see what the peaceful Iranians did to a guy they caught drinking beer? That's what 130 lash marks look like. He's trying to emigrate to Norway. I've drank a lot of beer in Norway, it's good.
That looks a bit less than 130 - since 130 is enough to be lethal unless the one doing it was a weakling.