Which verse of the quran says kill christians?

Question

Which verse of the quran says kill christians?

Answer 1

Christians, which are referred to as "people of the Book" are given three choices in Muslim controlled lands.. .



1. Convert to Islam



2. Dhimmini status

3. Death.





Versus which proscribe violence against infidels (Christians, Jews, anyone who is not a Muslim) :



The Qur'an:





Sura (2:191-193) - "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution [of Muslims] is worse than slaughter [of non-believers]...and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah." There is a good case to be made that the overall context of these verses is defensive war, however, there are two worrisome pieces to this passage. The first is that the killing of others is authorized in the event of "persecution." The second is that fighting may persist until "religion is for Allah."







Sura (2:244) - "Then fight in the cause of Allah, and know that Allah Heareth and knoweth all things."







Sura (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, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not."







Sura (3:56) - "As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help."







Sura (3:151) - "Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority". This speaks directly of killing Christians, since they believe in the Trinity (ie. what Muhammad incorrectly believed to be 'joining companions to Allah').







Sura (4:74) - "Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward."







Sura (4:76) - "Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…"







Sura (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, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks."







Sura (4:95) - "Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,-" This passage not only criticizes "peaceful" Muslims who do not join in the violence, but also demolishes the modern myth that "Jihad" doesn't mean holy war in the Qur'an, but rather a spiritual struggle. Not only is the Arabic word used in this passage, but it is clearly not referring to anything spiritual, since the physically disabled are given exemption. (The Hadith reveals the context of the passage to be in response to a blind man's protest that he is unable to engage in Jihad).







Sura (4:104) - "And be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy; if you suffer pain, then surely they (too) suffer pain as you suffer pain..." Pursuing an injured enemy is not an act of self-defense.







Sura (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"







Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"







Sura (8:15) - "O ye who believe! When ye meet those who disbelieve in battle, turn not your backs to them. (16)Whoso on that day turneth his back to them, unless maneuvering for battle or intent to join a company, he truly hath incurred wrath from Allah, and his habitation will be hell, a hapless journey's end."







Sura (8:39) - "And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah"







Sura (8:57) - "If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember."







Sura (8:59-60) - "And let not those who disbelieve suppose that they can outstrip (Allah's Purpose). Lo! they cannot escape. Make ready for them all thou canst of (armed) force and of horses tethered, that thereby ye may dismay the enemy of Allah and your enemy."







Sura (9:5) - "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them."







Sura (9:14) - "Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace..."







Sura (9:20) - "Those who believe, and have left their homes and striven with their wealth and their lives in Allah's way are of much greater worth in Allah's sight. These are they who are triumphant." The "striving" spoken of here is Jihad.







Sura (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not 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, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."





Sura (9:30) - "And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!"







Sura (9:38-39) - "O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place." This is a warning to those who refuse to fight, that they will be punished with Hell.







Sura (9:41) - "Go forth, light-armed and heavy-armed, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah! That is best for you if ye but knew."





Sura (9:73) - "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."







Sura (9:88) - "But the Messenger, and those who believe with him, strive and fight with their wealth and their persons: for them are (all) good things: and it is they who will prosper."





Sura (9:111) - "Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur'an: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme."







Sura (9:123) - "O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness."







Sura (21:44) - "We gave the good things of this life to these men and their fathers until the period grew long for them; See they not that We gradually reduce the land (in their control) from its outlying borders? Is it then they who will win?"







Sura (25:52) - "Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness, with the (Qur'an)." "Strive against" is Jihad, obviously not in the personal context. It's also significant to point out that this is a Meccan verse.







Sura (47:4) - "So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners,"







Sura (47:35) - "Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when ye should be uppermost: for Allah is with you,"







Sura (48:17) - "There is no blame for the blind, nor is there blame for the lame, nor is there blame for the sick (that they go not forth to war). And whoso obeyeth Allah and His messenger, He will make him enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; and whoso turneth back, him will He punish with a painful doom."







Sura (48:29) - "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves"







Sura (61:4) - "Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way"







Sura (61:10-12) - "O ye who believe! Shall I lead you to a bargain that will save you from a grievous Penalty?- That ye believe in Allah and His Messenger, and that ye strive (your utmost) in the Cause of Allah, with your property and your persons: That will be best for you, if ye but knew! He will forgive you your sins, and admit you to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow, and to beautiful mansions in Gardens of Eternity." This verse was given in battle. It uses the Arabic word, Jihad.







Sura (66:9) - "O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey's end." The root word of "Jihad" is used again here. The context is clearly holy war, and the scope of violence is broadened to include "hypocrites," those who call themselves Muslims but do not act as such.







From the Hadith:







Bukhari (52:177) - Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."







Bukhari (52:256) - The Prophet... was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, "They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. pagans)." In this command, Muhammad establishes that it is permissible to kill non-combatants in the process of killing a perceived enemy. This provides justification for the many Islamic terror bombings.







Abu Dawud (14:2526) - The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Three things are the roots of faith: to refrain from (killing) a person who utters, "There is no god but Allah" and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commits, and not to excommunicate him from Islam for his any action; and jihad will be performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet until the day the last member of my community will fight with the Dajjal (Antichrist)







Abu Dawud (14:2527) - The Prophet said: Striving in the path of Allah (jihad) is incumbent on you along with every ruler, whether he is pious or impious







Muslim (1:33) - the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah







Bukhari (8:387) - Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah







Muslim (1:149) - "Abu Dharr reported: I said: Messenger of Allah, which of the deeds is the best? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Belief in Allah and Jihad in His cause..."







Muslim (20:4645) - "...He (the Messenger of Allah) did that and said: There is another act which elevates the position of a man in Paradise to a grade one hundred (higher), and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth. He (Abu Sa'id) said: What is that act? He replied: Jihad in the way of Allah! Jihad in the way of Allah!"







Muslim (20:4696) - "the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: 'One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihid died the death of a hypocrite.'"







Muslim (19:4321-4323) - Three separate hadith in which Muhammad shrugs over the news that innocent children were killed in a raid by his men against unbelievers. His response: "They are of them (meaning the enemy)."







Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, "Kill any Jew who falls under your power." Ashraf was a poet, killed by Muhammad's men because he insulted Islam. Here, Muhammad widens the scope of his orders to kill. An innocent Jewish businessman was then slain by his Muslim partner, merely for being non-Muslim.







Ibn Ishaq: 327 “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”







Ibn Ishaq: 990 Lest anyone think that cutting off someone's head while screaming 'Allah Akbar!' is a modern custom, here is an account of that very practice under Muhammad, who seems to approve.









Additional Notes:



Other than the fact that Muslims haven't killed every non-Muslim under their domain, there is very little else that they can point to as proof that theirs is a peaceful, tolerant religion. Few verses in the Qur'an can be construed to fit the contemporary virtues of religious tolerance and universal brotherhood, and those that do are earlier "Meccan" verses that are obviously abrogated by later ones.







Far from being mere theological construct or history, the violent verses of the Qur'an have played a key role in the many massacres in Muslim history, including the brutal slaughter of tens of millions of Hindus for five centuries beginning around 1000 AD with Mahmud of Ghazni's bloody conquest. Buddhism was very nearly wiped off the Indian subcontinent. Judaism met the same fate in the Middle East as did Christianity, there as well as across North Africa and parts of Europe, including Turkey. Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of a proud Persian people is despised by Muslims and barely survives in modern Iran.







So ingrained is violence in the religion that Islam has never really stopped being at war, either with other religions or with itself.







Muhammad was a military leader, laying siege to towns, massacring the men, raping their women, enslaving their children, and taking what was once the property of others for his own. On several occasions he rejected offers of surrender from the besieged inhabitants and killed those whom he could take prisoner. He inspired his followers to battle even when they did not feel it was right to fight, threatening them with Hell if they did not, promising them slaves and booty if they did. Muhammad allowed his men to rape traumatized women captured in battle. Neither did he leave a clear line of succession, which resulted in internal war after his death and a jagged schism that has left Shias and Sunnis at each others' throats to this day.







It is important to emphasize that Muslim armies waged aggressive campaigns, and it was the companions of Muhammad who made the most dramatic military gains in the decades following his death. The principle set in motion early on was that the civilian population of a town was to be destroyed (ie. men executed, women and children taken as slaves) if they defended themselves. Although modern Muslim apologists often claim that Islam only attacked in self-defense, this is not only an oxymoron, but it is flatly contradicted by the accounts of Muslim historians and others going back to the time of Muhammad.







The strangest and most untrue thing that can be said about Islam is that it is a Religion of Peace. If every standard by which the West is judged and condemned (slavery, imperialism, intolerance, women's rights, warfare...) were applied equally to Islam, the verdict would be absolutely devastating. Islam never gives up what it conquers, be it religion, culture, language or life. Neither does it make apologies or any real effort at moral progress. It is the least open to dialogue and the most self-absorbed. It is convinced of its own perfection, yet never open to critical examination.







This is what makes the verses of violence so dangerous. While Muslim terrorists take them as literally as anything else in the Qur'an, and understand that Islam is incomplete without Jihad, others do little to contradict them. Indeed, what do they have? Speaking of peace and love may win over the ignorant, but when every twelfth verse of Islam's holiest book either speaks to Allah's hatred for non-Muslims or calls for their death, forced conversion, or subjugation, it's little wonder that sympathy for terrorism runs as deeply as it does in the broader community - even if most Muslims personally prefer not to interpret their religion in this way.







In fact, many Muslims are simply unaware of the Qur'an's near absence of verses that preach non-violence. This is because their understanding of Islam comes from what they are taught by others. In the West, it is typical for Muslims to come to believe that their religion must be like Christianity - preaching the New Testament virtues of peace, love, and tolerance - because Muslims are taught that Islam is supposed to be superior in every way. They are somewhat surprised and embarrassed to learn that the evidence of the Qur'an and the bloody history of Islam are very much in contradiction to this.







For their part, Western liberals would do well not to sacrifice judgment and distinction on the altar of political correctness, or look for reasons to bring other religion down to the level of Islam merely to avoid the existential truth that this it is both different and dangerous.



As for those who insist that Islam is a religion of peace, and are commanded not to injure the "people of the book" I suggest you read up on Lying (Taqiyya and Kitman). . which is sanctioned in Islam to further the religion. For a good discussion of it, follow this link:



http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/...



You might also sugest to those who insist there is no commandment to harm "people of the Book," that:

1. they are practicing Al Taqiyya or

2. they do NOT know the teachings of the prophet and should ask their Imam about the verse of the sword and abrogation. . .see this link:

http://answering-islam.org.uk/Index/A/ab...



Also ask them, if the Qu'ran is the word of God, why would any normal human being not recognize it immediately upon reading the Qu'ran. And why would they need to lie to protect the word of God. .



Also ask them how the Jewish and Christian scriptures were corrupted. .



And no, I am not trying to turn people against Islam. . but people deserve to know the truth about the religion before "joining" the club.



Raf, It sounds to me like you have made up your mind before you even asked the question. perhaps you are practicing Al taqiyya. .



Allow me to quote a few things from the islamic confrence in the U.S:

999 IAP Annual Conference, Chicago Illinois



Speaker - Salah Sultan



"My advice to the American society: See the realities, do not take them from the false media that bank on your credulity and submissiveness. The Zionist regime is a danger to the Jews, a danger to Christians, a danger to Americans. I want every child to sleep on the world of Palestine and the actions of martyrdom, just like that mother in the country whose son wrote to her that they are to meet in Paradise…."



1989 Hamas Conference, Kansas City



Speaker - Yusuf al-Qaradawi



"Palestine cannot be liberated except by Islam! So, if they fight us with Judaism, we will fight them with Islam! If they fight with the Torah, we will fight them with the Koran. If they say their temple, we have the Masjid al-Aqsa. On the Hour of Judgment, the Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them, until the Jews will hide behind the stone, and the stone and the tree will say, O Servant of Allah, O Muslim! There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him…Muslims will not be victorious by nationalism, and not by monarchy, and not by democracy, and not by Marxism - They will only be victorious by Islam.



1989 Hamas Conference, Kansas City



Speaker - Sheikh Ahmed al-Qattan



"Greetings to those who shoot at the Jews with the catapult, and to those who poke out the eyes of the Jews with the slingshot…In 1967 the Jews sang, "Muhammad is dead and gave birth to girls, and we answered, "O sons of pigs and monkeys, Muhammad is not dead and he did not give birth to girls. Rather, khaybar, khaybar [death] to Jews; Muhammad's Army will return!"



AIP emergency conference during the Gulf War, Chicago Illinois



Speaker - Khalil al-Qawka



"Today, America is right here at your doorstep, in everybody's house. Ba'al, the idol, is back and stands erect in the Arabian Peninsula. Is there a Muhammad to slay the Ba'al of our times?…The Marines, dear brothers, are stealing the doors of your houses, and the doors of your mosques, in obstinate and open provocation. They are at our doors. Their plan is to penetrate the flesh of our girls. And our honor, and our values, in order to turn our society into a perverted nation.



AIP Conference, Chicago Illinois, 1996



Speaker - Mohammad abu Faris, Jordanian Islamic Leader



"We were blamed in writing that we do not comply with what our religion orders us to. It orders us to fight the Jews and we did not kill them, and we did not perform our religion. Therefore, had we claimed that we do perform what our religion orders us and obliges us to do while we are not doing it then they would have been right. They wrote that our reality contradicts our religion…..There is only one way to liberate Palestine and Al-Aqsa, and that is the fighting, that is the Jihad, that is the slaughtering, that is the butchering…call it dialogue."



AIP Conference, Chicago Illinois, 1996



Speaker - Abdulrahman Alamoudi, Executive Director of the American Muslim Council (AMC)



"If we are outside this country we can say O Allah, destroy America, but once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it. There is no way for Muslims to be violent in America, no way. We have other means to do it. You can be violent anywhere else but in America."



AIP Conference, Chicago Illinois, 1997



Speaker - Ahmed al-Kufahi, member of the Islamic Action Front(IAF)



"In Islam, if your enemy occupies a small piece of your land, then you have to declare jihad against the enemy. Jihad becomes a must and a religious obligation on all Muslims to go and fight the enemy…women must go for jihad without taking permission from their husbands, slaves without taking permission from their masters, boys without taking permission from their fathers. Palestine is occupied by the enemy. The occupation of Palestine shouldn't be dealt with as a regional one but as an Islamic obligation, because occupation of any Islamic land is a violation to the Sovereignty of Islamic world."



Ali al-Byanuni, leader of the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood



"The Palestine issue is the most important issue for Muslims and its liberation and confronting the Zionist challenge should be on the top of our priorities as Muslims, and we should prepare ourselves for that task. Jihad is an Islamic obligation and a must on all Muslims."



2000 IAP Annual Conference, Chicago Illinois, Thanksgiving Weekend



Speaker - Imam Jamal Said (from Bridgeview, Il)



"I appeal to you, on this night that is ushering in the holy month of Ramadan, to be generous and give plenty to keep the light in the houses of our martyrs burning. We have boxes here that say "Help us, help the Aqsa cause, Islamic Association for Palestine!" We want you to fill those boxes. There is no better charity than to pay for the family of a martyr."



Sheikh Tariq Suweidan



"Palestine will not be liberated but through Jihad. Nothing can be achieved without sacrificing blood. The Jews will meet their end at our hands."



Arabic will of "martyr" Hamdi Yasin - died while killing an Israeli officer.



"I say, it is not correct when some people say that we commit suicide because we do not value life. We love life, but life in dignity…I cannot allow God's houses to be violated without defending them. At the Law Faculty of Al-Ashar University I was about to receive a certificate in law, but in this phase I prefer another kind of certificate, the other life, martyrdom in the path of God, the other certificate is martyrdom in the path of god. There is a big difference between the two certificates. Finally I pray to Almighty god that my action may result in the death of the greatest number of god's enemies possible. Let them know that our hallowed places, and our brains, and our blood are not cheap. I profess that there is no god but the One God, and that Muhammad is the messenger of god."



Statement by Iranian-American Imam, Muhammad al-Asi



"Let me say that Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and the Islamic Resistance in the Occupied Lands are part of a general Islamic revitalization, political-military reinstatement in the arena of the world, that is not confined to the Occupied Lands and that strictly belongs to the general Islamic condition throughout the world."



And, here is a list of actions by apparently misguided muslims who have not gotten the word that Islam is a religion of peace. . .





List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 2 Months

Date Country City Killed Injured Description

1/18/2008 Iraq Baghdad 3 2 A woman and her two children are murdered by Freedom Fighters in a roadside attack.

1/18/2008 Iraq Nassiriya 80 120 Clashes in two cities between mainstream Shias and the Soldiers of Heaven leave at least eighty dead.

1/18/2008 Iraq Mo'alimeen 2 4 Two children are killed when Jihadis attack their home with an IED.

1/18/2008 Thailand Pattani 1 2 Muslim radicals kill a local soldier outside a mosque.

1/18/2008 Yemen Hadramout 4 2 Two Beligian tourists and two locals are murdered by suspected al-Qaeda.

1/18/2008 Afghanistan Musa Qala 1 0 The Taliban hang an innocent civilian from an electricity pole.

1/17/2008 Iraq Mosul 2 0 A human rights activist is among two people shot to death by Freedom Fighters.

1/17/2008 Pakistan Peshawar 10 25 A young Sunni suicide bomber rushes into a Shia mosque and slaughters ten people.

1/17/2008 Iraq Baquba 11 15 A suicidal Sunni bomber detonates inside a Shia mosque, killing eleven worshippers.

1/16/2008 Iraq Baquba 8 7 A female suicide bomber sends eight Shia souls to Allah.

1/16/2008 Iraq Tuz Khurmato 2 0 A university student is among two people killed by Islamic terrorists.

1/16/2008 Iraq Baghdad 4 15 Two roadside bomb attacks kill four civilians and injure fifteen.

1/16/2008 Somalia Mogadishu 7 7 Jihadis kill seven Ethiopians in a bomb attack that leaves several others 'on the ground screaming in pain.'

1/16/2008 Chechnya Chechnya 1 6 Mujahideen kill a Russian and injure six more in an attack.

1/15/2008 Lebanon Beirut 3 21 A car bomb targeting the US embassy kills three passing civilians.

1/15/2008 Philippines Mindanao 1 0 A priest resists a kidnapping attempt by Abu Sayyaf terrorists and is shot to death in his chapel.

1/15/2008 Israel Ein Hashlosha 1 0 Hamas snipers kill a farm laborer working in a field.

1/15/2008 Somalia Afar-Darjin 2 4 Jihadis kill two civilians with a roadside bomb, four others are injured, including a pregnant woman who loses a leg.

1/15/2008 Pakistan Sararogha 22 0 Two dozen local soldiers are killed when religious militants overrun and capture a fort. Seven are beheaded.

1/15/2008 Thailand Yala 0 44 Islamic bombers injure forty-four people in an attack on market stalls.

1/15/2008 Somalia Aymiska 2 0 Islamic gunmen shoot two civilians in the head.

1/14/2008 Thailand Narathiwat 8 7 Islamists ambush and kill eight local soldiers in a vicious attack that leaves them beheaded, shot or blasted to death.

1/14/2008 Afghanistan Kabul 8 6 Religious extremists attack a hotel with suicide vests and machine-guns, managing to kill eight people in the lobby.

1/14/2008 Pakistan Karachi 11 52 Three children are among eleven killed in a bombing by Islamic militants outside a textile factory.

1/14/2008 Pakistan Mohmand 7 12 Seven local soldiers are killed when Taliban militants ambush a military convoy.

1/14/2008 Iraq Buhriz 7 3 Sunni militants booby-trap a home, killing seven Iraqi police.

1/13/2008 Algeria Medea 3 0 Islamic fundamentalists machine-gun three kids to death as they are gathering chestnust.

1/13/2008 Pakistan Mingora 1 0 A civilian who supports a peace initiative is kidnapped by Islamic radicals and murdered.

1/13/2008 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamic gunmen shoot a man in the back of the head as he is watching television.

1/12/2008 Afghanistan Kandahar 8 0 Taliban militants gun down eight Afghan police officers.

1/12/2008 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A father is murdered by Muslim gunmen after dropping his daughter off at school.

1/12/2008 Iraq Sulaimaniyah 1 0 Shia fundamentalists gun down a liquor store owner.

1/12/2008 Somalia Baidoa 2 0 Two Red Crescent workers are killed by suspected members of an Islamic militia.

1/12/2008 Afghanistan Helmand 1 8 A suicide bomber tries to enter a house, but is stopped short. He still manages to kill one adult and injure two children.

1/12/2008 Iraq Dhuluiya 6 0 Three children are among six killed when al-Qaeda gunmen invade two homes.

1/11/2008 Somalia Baidoa 1 0 Islamic militants shoot an off-duty soldier to death in a markeplace.

1/11/2008 Iraq Baghdad 4 8 Jihadis bomb a bakery, killing four people.

1/10/2008 Thailand Yala 3 7 Three men are shot to death by Muslim terrorists in three separate attacks.

1/10/2008 Iraq Baghdad 5 13 A pair of Jihad bombings leave five Iraqis dead.

1/10/2008 Yemen Sa'ada 6 6 Six local soldiers are killed in an ambush by Shiite radicals.

1/10/2008 Pakistan Lahore 24 80 A suicide bomber attacks a police post, killing two dozen police and civilians alike.

1/10/2008 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A Buddhist villager is murdered by Muslim gunmen in an unprovked attack.

1/9/2008 Yemen Haidan 1 0 Shiite militants kill a tribal elder.

1/9/2008 Algeria Ait Yahia 4 2 Islamic fundamentalists kill four local soldiers in a landmine attack.

1/9/2008 Philippines Jolo 2 0 Two off-duty cops are shot to death by suspected Islamic extremists, while jogging along a road.

1/9/2008 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 34-year-old man riding his motorcycle is murderd by Islamist gunmen.

1/8/2008 Iraq Madaen 2 5 A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out two Iraqi policemen.

1/8/2008 Somalia Dibiyada 4 7 Four civilians are killed during an ambush by Islamic militants.

1/7/2008 Iraq Baghdad 18 63 Eighteen innocents are are killed in two separate bombings, one a Fedayeen attack

1/7/2008 Iraq Khanaqeen 6 0 Radical Sunnis abduct, bind and then murder five men. A carpenter is gunned down in a separate attack.

1/7/2008 Pakistan Chugmalai 1 3 Islamic militants attack a security post, killing a local soldier.

1/7/2008 Afghanistan Spin Boldak 1 4 A suicide bomber on a motorcycle kills a local border guard.

1/7/2008 Afghanistan Helmand 4 4 Taliban militants kill four Afghans with a roadside bombing.

1/7/2008 Iraq Hawija 3 0 A married couple and their young son are shot to death by Islamic terrorists.

1/6/2008 Iraq Baghdad 3 16 A Jihad car bombing kills three people and injrues sixteen others.

1/6/2008 Pakistan Peshawar 1 0 Fundamentalists bomb a video shop, killing a security guard.

1/6/2008 Iraq Baghdad 11 17 A Fedayeen suicide bomber attacks an Iraqi celebration of national unity, killing eleven innocent people.

1/6/2008 Pakistan Wana 9 8 Nine tribal leaders are killed in two separate shooting attacks by Uzbeki Islamic extremists.

1/6/2008 Iraq Muqdadiya 4 0 Islamic radicals kidnap and behead four people, tossing their heads out on a highway.

1/5/2008 Iraq Muqdadiyah 6 3 Jihadis bomb a minibus, killing six civilians including women and children.

1/4/2008 Pakistan Kurram 3 0 Fighting between Sunni and Shia leaves three people dead.

1/4/2008 Thailand Yala 1 2 A 43-year-old villager is shot to death by Muslim militants.

1/3/2008 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 44-year-old Buddhist rubber tapper is murdered by Muslim extremists.

1/3/2008 Afghanistan Nimroz 7 12 A Fedayeen suicide bomber detonates in the middle of road construction crew, killing seven workers and their guards.

1/3/2008 Iraq Baghdad 6 11 Six civilians are killed in two separate Jihad attacks.

1/3/2008 Iraq Khalis 6 3 Six Iraqi soldiers are killed inside a home by a bomb set by radical Sunnis.

1/3/2008 Iraq Basra 1 0 A woman is shot to death by fundamentalists for unIslamic activities.

1/3/2008 Thailand Pattani 1 3 A local soldier dies from inuries suffered in a roadside bombing by militant Muslims.

1/3/2008 Pakistan Kurram 6 11 Six people are killed in violence between Sunni and Shia.

1/3/2008 India Shopian 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct and execute a civilian.

1/3/2008 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists gun down a 57-year-old civilian in the street.

1/2/2008 Algeria Naciria 5 7 Islamic fundamentalists bomb a police station, killing at least five people, including a 10-year-old girl.

1/2/2008 Iraq Muqdadiyah 6 3 Sunni radicals gun down six civilians in a drive-by attack.

1/2/2008 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 0 Two border guards are murdered by Islamic extremists.

1/2/2008 Pakistan Kurram 11 13 Eleven people are killed in a sectarian clash between Sunni and Shia.

1/2/2008 Iraq Baqubah 10 28 A female suicide bomber sends ten Iraqis to Allah.

1/2/2008 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 Suspected Islamists storm an aid office, killing a local guard.

1/2/2008 Somalia Afgoye 3 24 Islamists bomb a local market, killing three civilians.

1/2/2008 Iraq Baghdad 6 0 Freedom Fighters shoot five children and their father to death in a minivan at point-blank range.

1/2/2008 Afghanistan Helmand 1 1 Taliban militants shoot a local soldier to death.

1/1/2008 Pakistan Kahna 2 0 A young couple in their 20's is gunned down by family members for having sex.

1/1/2008 Pakistan Kurram 2 5 Two people are killed in fighting between rival Muslim groups.

1/1/2008 India Rampur 7 3 Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists carry out an attack on a security base, killing at least seven people.

1/1/2008 Sudan Khartoum 2 0 A US diplomat and his driver are killed in a shooting claimed by Islamic militants.

1/1/2008 Iraq Baghdad 36 38 A Fedayeen suicide bomber wades into a funeral and detonates, killing thirty-six people.

1/1/2008 Iraq Jalawla 5 0 Freedom Fighters abduct and murder an Iraqi policeman and four members of his family.

1/1/2008 Iraq Tahwelah 2 0 Radical Sunnis gun down a Shia man and his 16-year-old son.

12/31/2007 Iraq Maysan 3 0 Three teachers are gunned down by sectarian fundamentalists.

12/31/2007 Thailand Yala 1 27 Islamists kill one person in a series of bomb attacks on restaurants and entertainment venues.

12/31/2007 Iraq Tarmiya 12 7 Five schoolchildren are among a dozen Iraqis blown apart by a suicide bomber.

12/31/2007 Chechnya Grozny 2 0 Two police officers are killed in separate Mujahideen attacks.

12/31/2007 Pakistan Kurram 11 15 Eleven more people are killed in clashes between Sunni and Shia.

12/31/2007 Dagestan Derbent 1 0 A man is killed in a car bombing planted by suspected Islamists.

12/30/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 10 9 Islamic extremists attack a group of local soldiers, killing ten.

12/30/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 26-year-old man is shot to death by militant Muslims.

12/30/2007 Afghanistan Uruzgan 4 0 Four local soldiers are murdered by a Taliban bombing.

12/30/2007 Iraq Baquba 3 0 The bodies of three people are found near an al-Qaeda torture chamber.

12/30/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 6 1 A pregnant mother and her five young children are killed by a mortar round during an attack on Ethiopians by Islamic militias.

12/29/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A 17-year-old Islamic militant plants a bomb that kills a former mayor's deputy.

12/29/2007 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 Sectarian fundamentalists gun down a teacher.

12/29/2007 Iraq Mosul 4 11 Freedom fighters kill four Iraqi policemen.

12/29/2007 Afghanistan Wardak 8 0 Eight Afghans are murdered in a Taliban ambush.

12/29/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 13 9 Thirteen people are killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia.

12/29/2007 Afghanistan Kandahar 16 0 Sixteen Afghan police are murdered in an attack by religious extremists.

12/29/2007 Afghanistan Helmand 2 0 Religious extremists kill two civilians in a roadside blast.

12/28/2007 India Poonch 1 0 A civilian is abducted from his home and murdered by the Mujahideen.

12/28/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A local cop is gunned down by religious extremists.

12/28/2007 Iraq Baghdad 14 64 Jihadis murder fourteen Iraqis with a car bomb.

12/28/2007 Israel Hebron 2 1 Two young Israeli hikers are gunned down by Palestinian terrorists.

12/28/2007 Somalia Siinka Dheer 2 0 Two local soldiers are shot to death by Islamic gunmen.

12/28/2007 Pakistan Manglore 4 4 Four people are blown to bits by an Islamist bombing.

12/27/2007 Mauritania El Ghallawiya 3 0 Three local soldiers are killed by suspected Islamic militants in an ambush.

12/27/2007 Somalia Bakara 1 4 Islamic militias kill one civilian in a grenade attack.

12/27/2007 Pakistan Rawalpindi 23 50 A suicide attack kills former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and at least twenty supporters along a city street.

12/27/2007 Pakistan Kurram 27 42 Sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia leaves another two dozen dead.

12/27/2007 Iraq Baghdad 2 12 Jihadis blast a minibus with a roadside bomb, killing two civilians.

12/26/2007 Thailand Pattani 3 0 Islamic terrorists use children in a school as human shields to ambush a group of local soldiers, killing three.

12/26/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 49-year-old man is shot to death in a drive-by shooting by Muslim militants.

12/26/2007 Pakistan Sadda 25 26 Another two dozen people are killed, as the Taliban sets fire to villagers in a sectarian dispute.

12/26/2007 Pakistan Kurrum 32 40 Thirty-two people are killed in clashes between Sunni and Shia rivals.

12/26/2007 Iraq Mosul 3 2 Jihadis plant a bomb in a garbage pile, killing three children.

12/26/2007 Iraq Diyala 17 0 Seventeen al-Qaeda victims are found shot in the back of the head.

12/25/2007 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 4 Taliban extremists detonate explosives, killing one civilian.

12/25/2007 Iraq Baqubah 10 21 A suspected al-Qaeda suicide bomber attacks a funeral, killing ten mourners.

12/25/2007 Iraq Baiji 29 80 Nearly thirty Iraqis are blown apart by a suicidal Sunni along a city street.

12/24/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 58-year-old villager is shot to death by militant Muslims.

12/24/2007 Mauritania Nouakchott 4 1 Four French tourists (family members) are shot in cold blood by three members of a regional al-Qaeda network.

12/24/2007 Somalia Baidoa 3 7 Two children are among three killed in an Islamist grenade attack on a family vehicle.

12/24/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 3 24 Three people are killed in a second day of sectarian violence.

12/24/2007 Iraq Samarra 2 4 Two civilians are killed in a roadside Jihad bombing.

12/24/2007 Thailand Yala 2 0 Two Buddhists are murdered in a drive-by attack by Islamic radicals.

12/23/2007 Pakistan Mingora 14 30 Fourteen people are murdered by a suicide car bomber.

12/23/2007 Pakistan Kurrum 3 0 Sunni-Shia sectarian violence leaves three dead.

12/23/2007 Iraq Mahmudiya 6 0 An al-Qaeda car bomb kills six Sunnis.

12/23/2007 India Kayamkulam 1 0 A Hindu activist is hacked to death by a gang of radical Muslims.

12/23/2007 Chechnya Grozny 1 4 Mujahideen gunmen kill a police officer.

12/22/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 5 8 Islamic militias kill five Somalis with a rocket and small-arms fire attack.

12/22/2007 Iraq Baghdad 4 6 A Fedayeen suicide bomber ends the lives of four Iraqis.

12/22/2007 Somalia Baidoa 1 0 Two members of an Islamic militia assassinate a local judge.

12/21/2007 Iraq al-Salam 1 2 Jihadis manage to kill one child with a mortar attack on a residential neighborhood.

12/21/2007 Iraq Yusufiya 5 8 A suicidal Sunni takes out five Iraqis in a bombing.

12/21/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 47-year-old man is shot dead outside a mosque by Muslim radicals.

12/21/2007 Afghanistan Kandahar 3 2 Religious extremists decapitate an Afghan, then plant a bomb on the body, killing two others.

12/21/2007 Pakistan Kanaan 56 100 A Fedayeen, carrying a bomb packed with nails and bomb bearings, detonates in a mosque, killing at least fifty.

12/20/2007 Iraq Baghdad 3 27 Fundamentalists bomb a liquor store, killing three passersby.

12/20/2007 Iraq Kanaan 12 28 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills a dozen people at a Sunni council meeting.

12/19/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 3 1 Islamic gunmen on motorcycles brutally assault a car carrying bank employees, killing three.

12/19/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 42-year-old man is shot to death by militant Muslims.

12/18/2007 Iraq Baquba 2 15 Children are among the casualites as a suicide bomber detonates along a city street.

12/18/2007 Afghanistan Farah 15 9 Fifteen Afghans guarding a fuel tanker are murdered in cold blood by a Taliban ambush.

12/18/2007 Thailand Yala 4 0 Four local guards are shot to death by Muslim radicals, who then behead one of the bodies.

12/18/2007 Iraq Baghdad 7 12 Jihadis take out seven Iraqis in multiple attacks, including a university professor.

12/18/2007 Iraq Abbara 16 28 Sixteen people sitting in a caf� are blown to bits by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.

12/18/2007 Philippines Basilan 2 5 Abu Sayyaf gunmen kill two Filipino troops in an ambush.

12/18/2007 Iraq Muqdadiyah 26 0 A Sunni 'torture house' is discovered, with 26 bodies buried in a mass grave.

12/18/2007 Iraq Mosul 10 2 Yazidi tribesman are the target of radical Sunnis, who manage to kill ten.

12/17/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 12 24 Three children in their mother are among a dozen civilians killed when suspected Islamists shell a marketplace.

12/17/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A migrant worker is murdered by Islamic terrorists.

12/17/2007 Afghanistan Ghazni 2 0 Two local cops are gunned down by religious extremists.

12/17/2007 Pakistan Banda 2 6 Two children are killed during a rocket attack by Islamic militants.

12/17/2007 Iraq Balad Ruz 7 24 Children are among seven killed by a suicide bicycle bomber at a marketplace.

12/17/2007 Afghanistan Uruzgan 5 0 A bicycle bomber murders a family of five, including three children.

12/17/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 4 4 Islamic militants are suspected of firing a mortar shell into a market, killing four civilians.

12/17/2007 Pakistan Kohat 12 5 A teenage suicide bomber kills twelve off-duty soldiers returning from a soccer game.

12/16/2007 Turkey Barakli 0 1 A 65-year-old priest is stabbed during mass by a young Muslim angered over Christian "proselytising."

12/16/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Two teenage boys are shot off their motorcylce by Muslim gunmen, one dies.

12/16/2007 Iraq Mosul 4 0 A woman is among four people murdered by Islamic terrorists.

12/16/2007 Afghanistan Khost 2 0 Two civilians are blasted to Allah by Muslim militants.

12/16/2007 Pakistan Bajaur 1 3 A local soldier is shot to death by Muslim terrorists.

12/16/2007 Pakistan Khar 1 0 Religious extremists abduct and behead a local soldier.

12/15/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 2 12 Two civilians are killed by Islamic militias, one in a gun battle and the other execution-style.

12/15/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 5 2 Five civilians are killed by a Taliban car bombing along a city street.

12/15/2007 Pakistan Naushehra 5 11 Three civilians are among five murdered by a Fedayeen suicide bomber on a bicycle.

12/15/2007 Iraq Baghdad 6 23 Two bombings and a shooting, at least one by al-Qaeda, leave six Iraqis dead.

12/14/2007 Afghanistan Balkh 3 0 Three local soldiers are pulled from their vehicle and machine-gunned to death by Taliban militants.

12/14/2007 Pal. Auth. Gaza 3 30 A suspected Hamas operative tosses a grenade into a funeral, killing three mourners.

12/14/2007 Algeria Oum El Drou 5 0 Five civil servants are killed by a bomb planted by Islamic fundamentalists.

12/13/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 11 40 Islamic militias send mortar rounds into a marketplace, killing nearly a dozen civilians.

12/13/2007 Iraq Mosul 1 0 Fundamentalists kill a female hairdresser in her home.

12/13/2007 Iraq Hit 2 14 A Fedayeen suicide car bomber takes out two Iraqis.

12/13/2007 Iraq Tikrit 2 0 A father and son are shot to death by Islamic militants.

12/13/2007 Iraq Muqdadiyah 16 0 Sixteen beheaded victims of Sunni terrorists are found in a mass grave.

12/13/2007 Afghanistan Uruzgan 2 0 A 60-year-old woman is beheaded by the Taliban along with her grandson.

12/13/2007 Pakistan Quetta 8 18 At least eight people are killed by suicide bombers in two attacks.

12/13/2007 Afghanistan Tirin Kot 6 6 Religious extremists plant a landmine in the road that kills six civilians.

12/12/2007 Pakistan North Waziristan 6 20 Religious extremists attack a local military convoy, killing six Pakistanis.

12/12/2007 Iraq Baghdad 5 13 Five people are killed when Islamic terrorists booby-trap a car with a bomb.

12/12/2007 Iraq Amarah 28 135 Twenty-eight people are blown to bits by three coordinated Jihad car bombs.

12/12/2007 Lebanon Baabda 2 10 Mulims militants assassinate a military general with a bomb blast in a Christian neighborhood.

12/12/2007 Iraq Saidiya 2 0 Sectarian Jihadis enter a school and shoot two teachers to death.

12/12/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A man is gunned down in a drive-by shooting by Islamic radicals.

12/12/2007 Iraq Khanaquin 4 10 Jihadis bomb a gas station, killing four civilians.

12/11/2007 Afghanistan Panjwayi 2 0 A child is among two people murdered by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.

12/11/2007 Afghanistan Kandahar 5 0 Five Afghan guards are killed when their convoy is ambushed by religious extremists.

12/11/2007 Algeria Algiers 37 100 At least thirty-seven people are blown to bits by two separate al-Qaeda car bombings on a UN building and a courthouse.

12/11/2007 Iraq Basra 2 0 Islamic radicals kill a Christian brother and sister, then dump their bodies at a garbage site.

12/11/2007 Iraq Baghdad 7 13 The head of a hospital is among seven people murdered by Islamic terrorists in separate attacks.

12/11/2007 Somalia Hodan 1 0 A local soldier is murdered by Islamic gunmen.

12/11/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 Muslim radicals shoot a teacher to death in his own home.

12/10/2007 Canada Toronto 1 0 A 16-year-old girl is strangled to death by her father for refusing to wear the hijab.

12/10/2007 Iraq Baghdad 12 48 Two Jihad mortar attacks leave a dozen Iraqis dead.

12/10/2007 Pakistan Swat 0 5 A suicide bomber targets a busload of children, injuring five.

12/10/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 2 5 Two more civilians are killed when Islamic militants hurl grenades at a passing patrol.

12/9/2007 Iraq Hilla 6 0 Muslim bomber take out six Iraqis with a roadside attack.

12/9/2007 Pakistan Swat 9 8 Children are among nine killed when a suicide car bomber rams a police checkpoint.

12/9/2007 India Ramban 1 0 A Hindu police officer is shot to death by Muslim militants.

12/9/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 1 3 A civilian is killed when Islamists attack Ethiopian troops near a marketplace.

12/9/2007 Russia Nevinnomysk 2 4 Islamic terrorists bomb a passenger bus, killing two Russians.

12/9/2007 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A Christian girl is shot to death at a marketplace by Islamists.

12/8/2007 Iraq Mahmudiya 1 2 Jihadis kill one child in a mortar attack.

12/8/2007 Iraq Baiji 7 15 A female suicide bomber kills seven Iraqis.

12/8/2007 Afghanistan Farah 8 6 Eight local police are killed in two separate ambushes by religious militants.

12/8/2007 Iraq Wasit 4 0 Radical Sunnis are suspected in a rocket attack on a Shia house in which a family of four is killed.

12/8/2007 Afghanistan Helmand 1 0 The Taliban hang a 12-year-old boy from a tree.

12/7/2007 Pakistan Charsadda 1 3 Muslim militants kill a local policeman in an ambush on a security post.

12/7/2007 Iraq Diyala 24 25 Suicide bombers take out two dozen Iraqis in three attacks.

12/6/2007 Iraq Diyala 9 7 al-Qaeda gunmen massacre nine Iraqi cops at point-blank range at a checkpoint.

12/6/2007 Iraq Kut 1 0 Suspected fundamentalists shoot a woman to death.

12/5/2007 Iraq Baghdad 15 33 Sunni radicals massacre fifteen Shiites with a bomb placed outside their mosque.

12/5/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 12 14 A Fedayeen bomber boards a minibus and detonates, killing a dozen Afghans, including four children.

12/5/2007 Somalia Hiran 2 3 Two local soldiers are ambushed and murdered by Islamic militants.

12/5/2007 Iraq Baqubah 5 20 Islamic terrorists kill five Iraqis with a car bomb along a city street.

12/5/2007 Russia Stary Cherek 1 0 A police officer is gunned down by Muslim militants.

12/4/2007 Iraq Jalawla 8 30 A suicide bomber sends eight innocent souls to Allah.

12/4/2007 Iraq Baghdad 23 0 Two dozen people are killed by sectarian rivals and thrown into a lake.

12/4/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 4 20 Four people are killed when Islamists bomb a restaurant, two at the scene and the four others in the hospital.

12/3/2007 Afghanistan Nimruz 4 7 Four Afghans are blown to bits by a suicide bomber.

12/3/2007 Pakistan Qila Saifullah 6 6 The Taliban is suspected in the bombing of a school that leaves six teenaged boys dead.

12/3/2007 Iraq Ramadi 3 1 Three local police are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.

12/3/2007 Iraq Hawija 2 0 Two people are brutally killed and burned by al-Qaeda terrorists.

12/3/2007 India Anantnag 1 0 A 25-year-old civilian is abducted and shot to death by the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.

12/3/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 5 0 A father and son are among five people killed by Islamists in three separate attacks.

12/3/2007 Iraq Basra 15 9 Three teachers are among fifteen people targeted and murdered by Islamic radicals.

12/2/2007 Iraq Iskandariya 4 2 Four civilians are killed at their own mosque by sectarian rivals.

12/2/2007 Iraq Mosul 6 0 Six civilians are murdered by Islamic terrorists in various attacks.

12/2/2007 Iraq Garma 20 0 The bodies of three children are among twenty found at a house previously occupied by Islamic terrorists.

12/2/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 2 0 Two civilians are shot in the head by Islamic militia members.

12/2/2007 Iraq Baqubah 4 4 A suicide bomber blows apart four Iraqis.

12/2/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two civilians are shot to death in their pickup truck by Muslim radicals.

12/2/2007 India Sopore 1 0 Muslim militants abduct a 22-year-old seminary student and slit his throat.

12/2/2007 Pakistan Charsadda 3 5 Religious extremists open fire on a cockfight, killing three civilians.

12/2/2007 Somalia Medina 2 5 Islamists kill two civilians with a roadside bomb.

12/1/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 2 4 Islamists toss a grenade into a market, killing two civilians.

12/1/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamic terrorists shoot a man to death outside a mosque.

12/1/2007 Afghanistan Lashkar Gah 3 0 Three civilians are killed by a roadside bomb planted by religious extremists.

12/1/2007 Iraq Madaen 1 6 A suicide bomber kills an Iraqi at a traffic checkpoint.

12/1/2007 Iraq Dwelah 13 14 al-Qaeda gunmen storm a village, killing over a dozen innocents.

11/30/2007 Somalia Borbhere 1 0 A man is shot to death in a mosque by three Islamic radicals.

11/30/2007 Philippines Sulu 8 0 Eight local soliders are killed in an ambush by Muslim extremists.

11/30/2007 Iraq Baghdad 17 34 Seventeen Iraqis are killed in various attacks by Islamic terrorists around the country.

11/29/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 58-year-old orchard worker is shot to death by radical Muslims.

11/29/2007 India Baramulla 1 0 A 60-year-old civilian is shot to death by the Mujahideen.

11/29/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 15 23 Islamic militants open fire on a security team hunting for munitions in a residential area. Some fifteen civilians are killed.

11/29/2007 Iraq al-Salaam 12 25 A Jihad rocket attack leaves a dozen villagers dead.

11/29/2007 Pakistan North Waziristan 5 4 Religious militants bomb a convoy, killing five local soldiers.

11/29/2007 Afghanistan Baghlan 1 1 The Taliban shoot a local police officer to death.

11/28/2007 Iraq Haditha 5 30 Jihadis lob mortars into a residential area, killing five civilians.

11/28/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamists shoot, stab, then nail a man to a wooden cross and leave on the road to die.

11/28/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two Buddhist fishermen are abducted and brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists, who then cut off their heads.

11/28/2007 Pakistan Punjab 1 0 A father chops his daughter to death with an axe over her affair with a boy.

11/28/2007 Chechnya Grozny 1 0 A local cop is gunned down by the Mujahideen.

11/27/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 1 1 Islamic militias gun down a vendor at a market.

11/27/2007 Iraq Baqubah 9 15 A suicide bomber disguised as a shepherd manages to kill nine Iraqis, including three women.

11/27/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 2 7 A suicide bomber kills two civilians walking along a road.

11/26/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamic terrorists shoot a civilian off his motorcycle, then walk over and put a bullet in his head.

11/26/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 4 0 Four civilians are killed by a bomb planted by religious extremists.

11/26/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 54-year-old man is murdered by Muslim terrorists on his way to work.

11/26/2007 Afghanistan Paktia 4 2 Religious extremists kill four Afghans with a roadside bomb.

11/26/2007 Somalia Mataban 6 0 Six civilians are killed when Islamic militias attack Ethiopian troops in a populated area.

11/26/2007 Iraq Mosul 4 2 Jihadis murder four people. A woman is also gunned down in Basra.

11/25/2007 Iraq Baghdad 9 0 Nine Iraqi cops are taken hostage, force to kneel, and shot in the back of the head by their Muslim brothers.

11/25/2007 Iraq al-Zab 1 5 A suicide bomber kills one Iraqi and injures five more.

11/25/2007 Iraq Baghdad 11 36 Eleven civilians are killed in two separate car bombings.

11/25/2007 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A disabled woman is shot to death as she leaves her plantation.

11/25/2007 Iraq Shab 11 0 Seven children are among eleven family members slaughtered by sectarian rivals in their home.

11/24/2007 Afghanistan Kabul 7 9 Three children are among seven people murdered by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.

11/24/2007 Pakistan Rawalpindi 30 55 Suicide bombers kill thirty Pakistanis in two separate attacks, one on a bus.

11/24/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A middle-aged man is shot to death by Islamists while sitting in a tea shop.

11/24/2007 Iraq Fallujah 2 0 Two people are kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Islamic radicals.

11/24/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 An older Buddhist couple are murdered by Islamic gunmen in a drive-by attack.

11/23/2007 Iraq Baghdad 15 55 Fifteen innocent people are slaughtered by Jihadi bombers at a pet market.

11/23/2007 Iraq Mosul 21 21 Islamic terrorists massacre twenty-one Iraqis with twin bombings.

11/23/2007 Iraq Jalawla 2 0 A husband and wife are beheaded in front of their children by religious extremists.

11/23/2007 Afghanistan Kandahar 7 6 Religious extremists behead seven Afghan police officers.

11/23/2007 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 45-year-old man is killed outside his home by Islamic militants.

11/23/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 50 0 Renewed violence between Shia and Sunni reportedly leaves about fifty dead.

11/23/2007 India Uttar Pradesh 14 80 Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islamia terrorists bomb three separate Indian cities, killing at least fourteen Hindu.

11/22/2007 Iraq Howr Rajab 22 8 al-Qaeda terrorists attack two Iraqi villages, killing over twenty innocent people.

11/22/2007 Somalia Mogadishu 3 5 Three civilians are killed in an ambush by Islamic militants.

11/22/2007 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two brothers are shot to death by Muslim militants as they are riding a motorcycle.

11/22/2007 Russia Bratsk 5 13 A young girl is among five people are killed when Islamic radicals bomb a passenger bus.

11/22/2007 Philippines Kidapawan 1 7 A gang linked to Islamic militants plants a bomb at a shopping mall, killing one person.

11/22/2007 Pakistan FATA 2 0 Two civilians are shot to death in separate attacks by sectarian rivals.

11/22/2007 Pakistan Lower Kurram 3 0 Three people are killed in sectarian attacks.

11/22/2007 Iraq Mosul 3 22 Jihadis kill two people with a car bomb and behead a university professor in a separate incident.

11/21/2007 Pakistan Swat 4 0 Four members of the same family are killed in a mortar attack by Muslim militants.

11/21/2007 Thailand Pattani 4 6 Islamists shoot four Buddhists to death at point-blank range, then plant a bomb that injures six others.

11/21/2007 Iraq Ramadi 6 22 Sunni radicals bomb a courthouse, killing six people.

11/21/2007 Iraq Muwaili 40 0 An al-Qaeda mass grave is found containing forty bodies, including that of children.

11/21/2007 India Rajouri 1 0 A civilian is abducted and beheaded by the Mujahideen, who also torch his house.

11/20/2007 Afghanistan Ghazni 2 4 Islamic extremists attack a road construction crew, killing two people.

11/20/2007 Pakistan North Waziristan 1 3 A civilian is killed in an Islamist rocket attack.

11/20/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 6 4 A fourth day of Sunni-Shia violence yields six more bodies.

11/20/2007 India Baramulla 2 0 The Mujahideen shoot two people to death in separate attacks.

11/20/2007 Iraq Baghdad 37 25 Thirty-seven people are killed in various attacks by Islamic terrorists around the country.

11/20/2007 Pakistan Parachinar 28 27 Twenty-eight more people are killed in clashes between Sunni and Shia.

11/20/2007 India Kulgam 1 0 A baker is abducted and murdered by the Mujahideen.





But to close, let me quote another article. . .



Given Islam's violent history and the unfavorable contrast of its oppressive practices against 21st century values, Muslims are hard-pressed to repackage their faith in the modern age. Some of its leading apologists have come to rely on tricks involving semantics and half-truths that are, in turn, repeated by novices and even those outside the faith.



This is a document (that we hope to improve on and expand over time) that exposes some of these games and helps truth-seekers find their way through the maze of disingenuous (often blatantly false) claims about Islam and its history.







“If Islam were a violent religion, then all Muslims would be violent.”



“Other religions kill, too.”



Muhammad preached 'no compulsion in religion' (Qur'an: 2:256)



The Crusades



“Muhammad never killed anyone.”



Islam teaches 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (Qur'an 5:32)



"Muslims only kill in self-defense.”



The million dollar wager that "Holy War" isn't in the Qur'an.



"Verses of violence are taken out of context."



"Islam must be true, because it is the world’s fastest growing religion."











“If Islam were a violent religion, then all Muslims would be violent.”



The Muslim Game:



Most Muslims live peacefully, without harming others, so how can Islam be a violent religion? If Islam were the religion of terrorists, then why aren’t most Muslims terrorists?



The Truth:



Simply put, because it’s wrong to kill people, regardless of what Islam may or may not teach.



All religions align in some form or fashion with intuitive utilitarian principles. Many Muslims in the West often hold an interpretation of Islam that is much closer to Judeo-Christianity than to the actual way of Muhammad, since that is how their religion is presented to them. They only know the biographical details of their prophet that are in line with moral restraint, and not the ones that speak of hedonism, deception, power and violence.



Decent Muslims are that way because they are more loyal to the moral law written in their hearts than they are to the details of Muhammad’s religion, whether they know it or not. They filter out evidence to the contrary - when they may encounter it - and truly believe that their religion is inclusive of the many freedoms and values that are cherished in the West (perhaps never questioning why liberty and tolerance are conspicuously lacking in Muslim lands).



Although it is a broad religion, it is no coincidence that the purists in Islam – those most prone to taking the words of Muhammad literally – are almost always the more dangerous. They may be called ‘extremists’ or ‘fundamentalists,’ but, at the end of the day, they are always the more dedicated to the Qur’an and following the path of Jihad as mandated by Muhammad.



Of course, the same question can easily be turned around. If Islam is a religion of peace, then why is it the only religion that consistently produces religiously-motivated terrorist attacks? Why are thousands of people able to cut off an innocent person’s head or fly a plane into a building while screaming praises to Allah? Where’s the outrage among other Muslims when this happens… and why do they get more worked up over cartoons?







“Other religions kill, too.”



The Muslim Game:



Bringing other religions down to the level of Islam is one of the most popular strategies of Muslim apologists when confronted with the spectacle of Islamic violence. Remember Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber? Why pick on Islam if other religions have the same problems?



The Truth:



Because they don’t.



Regardless of what his birth certificate may or may not have said, Timothy McVeigh was not a religious man. At no time did he credit his deeds to religion, quote Bible verses, or claim that he killed for God.



The so-called “members of other faiths” alluded to by Muslims are nearly always just nominal members who have no active involvement. They are neither inspired by, nor do they credit religion as Muslim terrorists do, and this is what makes it a very different matter.



Islam is associated with Islamic terrorism because that is the association that the terrorists themselves choose to make.



Muslims who compare crime committed by people who happen to be nominal members of other religions to religious terror committed explicitly in the name of Islam are comparing apples to oranges.



Yes, some of the abortion clinic bombers were religious (as Muslims enjoy pointing out), but consider the scope of the problem. There were five deadly attacks over a 35 year period in the U.S. Seven people died. This is an average of one death every five years.



By contrast, Islamic terrorists staged nearly ten thousand deadly attacks in just the six years following September 11th, 2001. If one goes back to 1971, when Muslim armies in Bangladesh began the mass slaughter of Hindus, through the years of Jihad in the Sudan, Kashmir and Algeria, and the present-day Sunni-Shia violence in Iraq, the number of innocents killed in the name of Islam probably exceeds five million over this same period.



In the last six years, there have been perhaps a dozen or so religiously-inspired killings by people of all other faiths combined. No other religion produces the killing sprees that Islam does nearly every day of the year. Neither do they have verses in their holy texts that arguably support it. Nor do they have large groups across the globe dedicated to the mass murder of people who worship a different god, as the broader community of believers struggles with ambivalence and a radical clergy that supports the terror.



Muslims may like to pretend that other religions are just as subject to "misinterpretation" as is their “perfect” one, but the reality speaks of something far worse.







Muhammad preached “No compulsion in religion.”

(Qur’an, Verse 2:256)



The Muslim Game:



Muslims quote verse 2:256 from the Qur’an to prove what a tolerant religion Islam is. The verse reads in part, “Let there be no compulsion in religion; truth stands out clearly from error…”



The Truth:



The Muslim who offers this verse may or may not understand that it is from one of the earliest Suras (or chapters) from the Medinan period. It was “revealed” at a time when the Muslims had just arrived in Medina after being chased out of Mecca. They needed to stay in the good graces of the stronger tribes around them, many of which were Jewish. It was around this time, for example, that Muhammad decided to have his followers change the direction of their prayer from Mecca to Jerusalem.



But Muslims today pray toward Mecca. The reason for this is that Muhammad issued a later command that abrogated (or nullified) the first. In fact, abrogation is a very important principle to keep in mind when interpreting the Qur’an – and verse 2:256 in particular – because later verses (in chronological terms) are said to abrogate any earlier ones that may be in contradiction.



Muhammad’s message was far closer to peace and tolerance during his early years at Mecca, when he didn’t have an army. This changed dramatically after he attained the power to conquer, which he eventually used with impunity to bring other tribes into the Muslim fold. Contrast verse 2:256 with Suras 9 and 5, which were the last “revealed,” and it is easy to see why Islam has been anything but a religion of peace from the time of Muhammad to the present day.



There is some evidence that verse 2:256 may not have been intended for Muslims at all, but is instead meant to be a message to other religions concerning their treatment of Muslims. Verse 193 of the same Sura instructs Muslims to "fight with them (non-Muslims) until there is no more persecution and religion is only for Allah." This reinforces the narcissistic nature of Islam, which places Muslims above non-Muslims, and applies very different standards to both groups.



Though many Muslims today reject the practice of outright forcing others into changing their religion, forced conversion has been a part of Islamic history since Muhammad first picked up a sword. As he is recorded in many places as saying, "I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah..."



Muhammad put his words into practice. When he marched into Mecca with an army, one of his very first tasks was to destroy idols at the Kaaba, which had been devoutly worshipped by the Arabs for centuries. By destroying these objects of worship, he destroyed the religion of the people and supplanted it with his own.



Interestingly, even the Muslims who quote 2:256 usually believe in Islamic teachings that sound very much like religious compulsion. These would be the laws punishing apostasy by death, and the institutionalized discrimination against religious minorities under Islamic rule that is sometimes referred to as “dhimmiitude.”



Dhimmitude prohibits non-Muslims from sharing their faith and even includes the extortion of money from them in the form of a tax called the jizya. Those who refuse to pay this arbitrary amount are put to death. If this isn’t compulsion, then what is?







The Crusades



The Muslim Game:



Muslims love talking about the Crusades… and Christians love apologizing for them. To hear both parties tell the story, one would believe that Muslims were just peacefully minding their own business in lands that were legitimately Muslim, when Christian armies decided to wage holy war and "kill millions.”



The Truth:



Every part of this myth is a lie. By the rules that Muslims claim for themselves, the Crusades were perfectly justified, and the excesses (though beneath Christian standards) pale in comparison with the historical treatment of conquered populations at the hands of Muslims.



Here are some quick facts…



The first Crusade began in 1095… 460 years after the first Christian city was overrun by Muslim armies, 457 years after Jerusalem was conquered by Muslim armies, 453 years after Egypt was taken by Muslim armies, 443 after Muslims first plundered Italy, 427 years after Muslim armies first laid siege to the Christian capital of Constantinople, 380 years after Spain was conquered by Muslim armies, 363 years after France was first attacked by Muslim armies, 249 years after Rome itself was sacked by a Muslim army, and only after centuries of church burnings, killings, enslavement and forced conversions of Christians.



By the time the Crusades finally began, Muslim armies had conquered two-thirds of the Christian world.



Europe had been harassed by Muslims since the first few years following Muhammad’s death. As early as 652, Muhammad’s followers launched raids on the island of Sicily, waging a full-scale occupation 200 years later that lasted almost a century and was punctuated by massacres, such as that at the town of Castrogiovanni, in which 8,000 Christians were put to death. In 1084, ten years before the first crusade, Muslims staged another devastating Sicilian raid, burning churches in Reggio, enslaving monks and raping an abbey of nuns before carrying them into captivity.



In theory, the Crusades were provoked by the harassment of Christian pilgrims from Europe to the Holy Land, in which many were kidnapped, molested, forcibly converted to Islam or even killed. (Compare this to Islam’s justification for slaughter on the basis of Muslims being denied access to the Meccan pilgrimage in Muhammad’s time).



The Crusaders only invaded lands that were Christian. They never attacked Saudi Arabia or sacked Mecca as the Muslims had done (and continued doing) to Italy and Constantinople.



The period of Crusader “occupation” (of its own former land) was stretched over less than two centuries. The Muslim occupation is in its 1,372nd year.



The period of Crusader “aggression” compresses to about 20 years of actual military campaign, much of which was spent on organization and travel. (They were from 1098-1099, 1146-1148, 1188-1192, 1201-1204, 1218-1221, 1228-1229, and 1248-1250). By comparison, the Muslim Jihad against the island of Sicily alone lasted 75 grinding years.



Unlike Jihad, the Crusades were never justified on the basis of New Testament teachings. This is why they are an anomaly, the brief interruption of fourteen centuries of relentless Jihad against Christianity that began long before the Crusades and continued well after they were over.



The greatest crime of the Crusaders was the sacking of Jerusalem, in which 30,000 people were said to have been massacred. This number is dwarfed by the number of Jihad victims, from India to Constantinople and Narbonne, but Muslims have never apologized for their crimes and never will.



What is called 'sin and excess' by other religions, is what Islam refers to as the will of Allah.







"Muhammad never killed anyone.”



The Muslim Game:



In order to give others the impression that Muhammad was a man of peace, Muslims sometimes claim that he never killed anyone. By this, they mean that he never slew anyone with his own hand (except in battle… which they may or may not remember to mention).



The Truth:



By this logic, Hitler never killed anyone either.



Obviously, if you order the execution of prisoners or the murder of critics by those who are under your command, then you are at least as guilty as those who carry out your orders. In Muhammad’s case, the number of people that he had murdered were literally too many for historians to fully know.



There were the men taken prisoner at Badr (including one who cried out for his children at the point of execution), a mother of five (stabbed to death for questioning Muhammad’s claim to be a prophet), dozens of Jewish citizens, including poets and merchants who were accused of mocking Islam, numerous adulterers, at least one slave girl, 800 Qurayza men and boys taken captive and beheaded on Muhammad’s order, a Qurayza woman made delirious by the execution of her family, and an unfortunate individual who was tortured to death so that the prophet of Islam could discover his hidden treasure and then “marry” his freshly-widowed wife.



Indirectly, Muhammad is also responsible for the millions upon millions of people who have been slaughtered down through the centuries by those carrying on his legacy of Jihad. Not only did he kill, he is truly one of the bloodiest figures in history.







“Just like the Bible, the Qur’an also says ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill.’”

(Qur’an, Verse 5:32)



The Muslim Game:



Many Westerners prefer to believe that all religion is either equally bad or equally good, and eagerly devour anything that seems to support this preconception. The myth usually works to Islam’s advantage as well, since it either raises it to the level of others, or brings the others down to it. To compete with Western religion, Muslims vigorously employ verse 5:32, which is the closest thing they have to the Old Testament command of ‘Thou shalt not kill.”



It reads, in part:



“…if any one slew a person… it would be as if he slew a whole people; and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of a whole people…”.

(As quoted by the Fiqh Council of North America in their ultimately meaningless “Fatwa against Terrorism”)



The Truth:



Oh goodness… if only the Qur’an stopped right there! What would the world be like without large numbers of Muslims eager to commit mass murder in the name of their religion across the globe each day? Think of the lives, money and heartache that would be spared if Muhammad had commanded Muslims to cherish human life in the Judeo-Christian tradition



Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. This fragment of verse 5:32 is what Muslim apologists want non-Muslims to believe is in the Qur’an, rather than the dozens of other open-ended passages that command warfare, beheadings and torture. But even what they usually quote from 5:32 isn’t quite how it appears. Remember all those ellipses? There's something being left out.



Here’s the full text of the verse:



“On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.”



First, notice the gaping loophole. Killing is allowed in cases of murder or “for spreading mischief in the land.” Murder is pretty straightforward, but “spreading mischief?” If anything begged for a careful and precise explanation, this phrase certainly would. But generations of Muslims are left to apply their own interpretation of what “mischief” means. (Needless to say, the standards vary).



Secondly, note the broader context of this verse. It turns out that this isn’t a command to Muslims after all. It’s a recounting of a rule that was handed down to the Jews. It isn’t an admonition against killing. It’s an indictment against Jews for violating God’s law. “Any one” doesn’t mean “anyone,” but rather “any one” of the Jews.



Rather than encouraging tolerance, Sura 5 as a whole is actually an incitement of hatred with a hint of violence. Jews and Christians are explicitly cursed as ‘wicked’ people with ‘diseased hearts’ and as hateful ‘blasphemers’ respectively. Muhammad goes on to coyly remind his people that Allah loves those who “fight” in his service (and it’s fairly obvious who the enemy is).



Muslims also conveniently leave out the fact that the verse which follows 5:32 actually mandates killing in the case of the aforementioned “mischief.” It even suggests crucifixion and “the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides.”



With this being the best that Islam has to offer, it’s not hard to guess why the religion contributes over a thousand deadly terrorist attacks each year.







“Muslims only kill in self-defense.”



The Muslim Game:



Muslims often claim that their religion only orders them to kill in self-defense (ie. when their own lives are in danger).



The Truth:



In fact, self-defense is is just one of several conditions under which Muslims are permitted to take the lives of others. The myth of killing only in self-defense is easily disproved from the accounts of Muhammad’s own life as recorded in Islam’s sacred texts (with which Muslim terrorists are only too familiar).



Muhammad’s career of killing began with raids on merchant caravans traveling between Syria and Mecca. His men would usually sneak up on unsuspecting drivers and kill those who defended their goods. There was no self-defense involved here at all. This was old-school armed robbery and murder – sanctioned by Allah (according to Muhammad, who also demanded a fifth of the loot).



The very first battle that Muhammad fought was at Badr, when a Meccan army of 300 was sent out to protect the caravans from Muslim raids. The Meccans did not threaten Muhammad, and (turning this Muslim myth on its ear) only fought in self-defense after they were attacked by the Muslims. Following the battle, Muhammad established the practice of executing surrendered captives – something that would be repeated on many other occasions.



The significance of this episode can hardly be overstated, because it lies at the very beginning of the long chain of Muslim violence that eventually passed right through the heart of America on September 11th. The Muslims were not being threatened by those whom they attacked, and certainly not by those whom they had captured. They staged aggressive raids to eventually provoke war, just as al-Qaeda attempts to do in our time.



Muslims try to justify this early violence by claiming that Muhammad and his followers “suffered persecution” at the hands of the Meccans in an earlier episode, in which Muhammad was evicted from the city of Mecca and had to seek refuge at Medina. But even the worst of this persecution did not rise to the level of killing, except in one or two disputed instances. Muhammad and his Muslims were not in any danger at all in Medina.



Even Muhammad’s own men evidently questioned whether they should be pursuing and killing people who did not pose a threat to them, since it seemed to contradict earlier, more passive teachings. To convince them, Muhammad passed along a timely revelation from Allah stating that “the persecution of Muslims is worse than slaughter [of non-Muslims]” (Sura 2:191). This verse established the tacit principle that the authority of Muslims is of higher value even than the very lives of others. There is no larger context of morality against which acts are judged. The only thing that matters is how an event impacts or benefits Muslims.



Under Muhammad, slaves and poets were executed, captives were beheaded, and adulterers were put into the ground and stoned. None of these were done during the heat of battle or necessitated by self-defense. To this day, Islamic law mandates death for certain crimes such as blasphemy and apostasy.



Following his death, Muhammad’s companions stormed the Christian world - taking the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Europe. They attacked and conquered to the East as well, including Iran, Afghanistan and well into the Indian sub-continent. Few, if any, of these campaigns involved the pretense of self-defense. They were about Jihad.







"The words, ‘Holy War’, aren’t in the Qur’an.”



The Muslim Game:



In early 2005, a well-known Muslim apologist named, Jamal Badawi, offered $1 million to anyone who could prove that the Qur’an contained the words, “Holy War.” Whether he actually had the money to put up is somewhat in question, but his intention was to make people believe that Jihad is not advocated in the Qur’an and that the terrorists are somehow tragically mistaken when they wage their campaigns of holy war in the cause of Islam.



So successful is this myth, that it has been repeated on popular television shows, such as “Criminal Minds.” Many now believe that not only is holy warfare not advocated by the Qur’an, but that the word, “Jihad” must not appear in it either, since Jihad has come to mean “Holy War” (most especially by those who kill in the name of Allah).



The Truth:



In fact, not only is the word “Jihad” mentioned in several places within the Quran, such as the infamous Sura 9 (“Verse of the Sword”), there are over 150 calls to holy war scattered throughout the entire text.



So what’s the catch?



Well, when knowledgeable infidels such as Robert Spencer immediately responded to the challenge and went to collect their prize, Mr. Badawi was forced to reveal the fine print on his offer. You see, he wasn’t talking about the concept of holy war. He only meant the exact Arabic phrase, “Holy War.”



And what about “Jihad?” Well, this doesn’t count, according to Mr. Badawi, because technically it can be used in a context that doesn’t mean ‘holy war’ (even if that is not how it was interpreted in Muhammad’s time, nor in ours). "Jihad" is like the word “fight,” which can be used in a benign sense (as in, “I am fighting a craving to call Mr. Badawi a disingenuous hack”).



If “Jihad” is holy without war, then “Qital” must be war without the holy. It is an Arabic term that literally means to wage military combat. But, like Jihad, it is most certainly used within the context of holy war, such as in Sura 2: “Fight against them until idolatry is no more and religion is only for Allah.” Mr. Badawi is even on record as admitting that Qital can be a form of Jihad… but even this doesn’t qualify according to the niceties of his offer.



So, although the Qur’an tells believers to “slay the infidels wherever ye find them,” and “smite their necks and fingertips,” showing “ruthlessness to unbelievers,” and 150 other violent admonitions to fight explicitly in the cause of Allah… the Arabic words “holy” and “war” don’t literally appear side-by-side. (Neither do the German words, “concentration” and “camp,” appear consecutively in Nazi documents, by the way).



My, what a hollow victory this is. One has to wonder whether Mr. Badawi sincerely believes that he has a point or if he recognizes this for the shameful word game that it is.



At the very least, people should know that “Jihad” is used within the context of religious warfare time and time again throughout the Qur’an and Hadith, and that, regardless of the exact terminology, Islam’s most sacred texts clearly advocate the sort of holy war that propels modern-day terrorism.







“Verses of violence are taken out of context.”



The Muslim Game:



Verses like, “Slay the infidels wherever ye find them,” were issued during times of war, according to the apologists. They accuse critics who use Qur’anic verses to discredit Islam of engaging in “cherry-picking” (pulling verses out of context to support a position, and ignoring others that may mitigate it).



The Muslims who rely on this argument often leave the impression that the Qur’an is full of verses of peace, tolerance and universal brotherhood, with only a small handful that say otherwise. Their gullible audience may also assume that the context of each violent verse is surrounded by obvious constraints in the surrounding text which bind it to a particular place and time (as is the case with many Old Testament passages).



The Truth:



The truth, unfortunately, is just the opposite. This is why new Muslims and non-Muslims alike, who begin studying the Qur’an and Hadith, are often confronted with an array of disclaimers and warnings by well-meaning Muslims who caution that it takes “years of study” to fully understand the meaning of certain passages. Neophytes are encouraged to seek the counseling of a Muslim scholar or cleric to "help them along" with interpreting what they read.



It is not the verses of violence that are rare, however, it is the ones of peace and tolerance. Neither is the “historical context” of these verses of violence at all obvious from the surrounding text (in most cases).



In the Qur’an, ideas and topics often seem to come from out of nowhere, emerging almost at random in a jumbled mess that bears no consistent or coherent stream of thought. But, with external references to the Hadith and early biographies of Muhammad’s life, it is usually possible to determine when a Qur’anic verse was “handed down from Allah,” and what it may have meant to the Muslims at the time. This is what apologists opportunistically refer to as “historical context.” They contend that such verses are merely a part of history and not intended as imperatives to present-day Muslims.



But “historical context” cuts both ways. If any verse is a product of history, then they all are. Indeed, there is not a verse in the Qur’an that was not given at a particular time to address a particular situation in Muhammad’s life, whether he wanted to conquer the tribe next door and needed a “revelation” from Allah spurring his people to war, or if needed the same type of “revelation” to satisfy his lust for more women (free of complaint from his other wives).



Here is the irony of the “cherry-picking” argument: Those who use “historical context” against their detractors nearly always engage in cherry-picking of their own by choosing which verses they apply “historical context” to and which they prefer to hold above such tactics of mitigation.



Islamic purists do not engage in such games. Not only do they know that the verses of Jihad are more numerous and authoritative (abrogating the earlier ones), they also hold the entire Qur’an to be the eternal and literal word of Allah… and this is what often makes them so dangerous.







"Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion"



The Muslim Game:



How can Islam be a bad religion if it is growing so fast? Doesn’t this mean that it is actually a truthful religion, since so many are accepting it?



The Truth:



In the first place, the truth of an idea or doctrine is never established by mere belief. Up until the last hundred years or so, the vast majority of people on our planet did not even believe that they were on a planet. Nor did they believe that the earth was spinning at a thousand miles an hour or hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour. Does this mean that the earth wasn’t doing these things up until people believed that it was?



Secondly, Islam is not "growing faster" than other religions because “people are accepting it,” but rather because the birthrate among Muslims is significantly higher than it is among Christians and others, particularly in the West. Kids can be raised to believe in just about anything, so this hardly constitutes any sort of accomplishment.



Of the so-called “converts” from other religions, only a miniscule number were active believers. Nearly all are really just people who have no faith to convert from – regardless of their nominal designation. In the West and non-Muslim Third World, where all religions are allowed to compete equally, such people (who experience a spiritual awakening) are much more likely to turn to Christianity than to Islam.



Finally, the real reason that Islam is making headway in other faiths, while losing few of its own, is actually something that Muslims should feel a sense of embarrassment over, rather than pride. In truth, it speaks more to the insecurity that Muslims have in their own religion, and the banal immaturity that Islam has, compared with other faiths.



Let’s say that you are playing chess with a 6-year-old boy. Instead of following the same set of rules, however, the child is allowed to make up rules that are preferential to him. One of the rules he decides on is that you aren’t allowed to make any moves in his half of the board, but he is allowed to make moves in yours. Another might be that it is impossible for any of his pieces to be taken.



Now, if the child is winning the game – which is assured by the conditions that he has imposed - is it really something in which he can take true pride?



The rules that Muslims impose on the “conversion game” are almost exactly like this chess analogy. Other religions are not allowed to operate in Islam’s own territory (ie. preaching their faith and evangelizing) as Muslims are in others. Neither is conversion away from Islam allowed – on penalty of death.



Watching Muslims gloat over being the “fastest growing religion” is no different than watching a child delude themselves into thinking that they are smarter and better for “beating” a much wiser adult in a game played under manufactured conditions that render the artificial “victory” entirely meaningless.



Islam has been playing by its own rules since its inception. It is unlikely that Muslims will soon develop the confidence in their own religion (or the necessary social maturity) to lift the shameful restrictions to which it owes its success and risk competition with other faiths on a level playing field.



As was first mentioned, the truth of a belief or creed is never established by how many followers it has. But when a religion has to be supported by double standards and death threats, there is all the more reason to doubt its veracity.



(Note: Our article does not take issue with the claim that Islam is the fastest growing religion, not because we necessarily believe it, but because others have done a better job of refuting it. See Islam is not the Fastest Growing Religion in the World for an example.)





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Answer 2

Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

Answer 3

Just to put your verse into context…That verse and the verses before and after are about the Battle of Badr in the early 17th century.



“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

O -WAIT WRONG BOOK, The Bible; Deuteronomy 21:18–21



Also in the Quoran:

008.061 But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in God: for He is One that hears and knows (all things).



060.008 God forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for (your) Faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: for God loves those who are just.

Answer 4

1) In Quran Allah tells about all of the Past events that happened, from the day when Adam came into being, about the future, till the domes day. Day of Resurrection. As well as, every event that happened in the life of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H), Allah guided Him and helped Him.



So, All of the references that are given from QURAN, are in context of the events that happened in those times with Muslims.



Please, don't misguide people by quoting Quaranic verses at the wrong place.

For more explanation kindly watch this video:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MoRTfS75X8



2) Indeed, Islam is a religion of peace. I can give 1000 examples of terrorism practiced by NON-MUSLIMS. But I don't want to, because it is going to be an end-less argument. Was Hitler a Muslim? no, the point is, none of the religion in this world teaches Terror. Its people who doesn't follow religion, commit sins, wars and kill people.



In fact, Islam doesn't even allow to kill infants, kids or women in the war. Nor it allows to demolish worship places belong to other religions.



3) The Statements of God in Bible about False prophets, is not towards Muhammad (P.B.U.H), its about the time that has to come, when Antichrist will appear. For reference:



Abu Hurairah narrated Muhammad said;





"The Hour will not be established until two big groups fight each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, until about 30 dajjals appear, and each of them will claim that he is Allah's Apostle...False Prophet"



—Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 88: Afflictions and the End of the World, Hâdith Number 237.[6]



The Prophet also stated that the last of these Dajjals would be the False Messiah, al-Masih ad-Dajjal (Antichrist):



Please note:



All Muslim scholars' perspectives do not see the second coming of the Messiah as the coming of a new prophet, as the Islamic Messiah Jesus had already been an existing prophet, and will rule by the Qur'an and Sunnah of Muhammad, bring no new revelation or prophecy.

Answer 5

[2.191] 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.



Dhimmi's are protected people who live under the muslims reign of course they are only protected if they pay Jizya taxes. IF they miss a payment they are beheaded.

IF one is determined to be acting against muslim faith without proof they are immediatly beheaded.

FOr more beheading references in the quran try this site:



http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=1320



2.1 to 2.13 tells Muslims that they are right and anyone who says otherwise is just lying and are blind, and will pay for it. Seems to me that the writer was an self absorbed child who wants everything to be his way, kind of like a teenage girl who thinks she can do want she wants and get away with it. Fact is Muslims will tell you to convert and you shall be forgiven then they will behead you anyways just in case you have second thoughts it is their way of saying it is to save your soul.

Okay I gave an inch lets see who takes it.

Answer 6

Let them say watever they want.By their saying we r not going 2 leave our religion.Alahamdulillah we muslims hav strong Eeman.

Answer 7

There is one huge difference between the Bible and the Quran. In the Bible we have chronology. The New Testament formed a new covenant between man and God. A covenant that gave man a chance at redemption and a path to Heaven, which did not exist in the Old Testament Days. In the New Testament Jesus lived the life we are to emulate for perfection, i.e. (I'm paraphrasing), turn the other cheek, teach the Gospel but if a town rejects you wipe the dirt from your feet and go away, plus he let himself be crucified for man's redemption. In the Quran, we have no chronology, so abrogation is difficult and Muhammad was a Warrior Prophet. His life is to be emulated by practicing Muslims. He lived by the sword and practiced killing of the infidels. (non-Muslims), unless they were subjugated and paid an onerous tax to the Muslims or converted. The New Testament preaches peace and sharing the word of God in a peaceful manner, while the Quran teaches conversion by the sword. Tough to say the Books say the same thing when the Bibles New Testament clearly states that love and peace are the goals of a good Christian and gives us a man/God of peace to emulate. Jared does a great job of showing what the Quran says about killing.

Answer 8

Its been a while since I read it, but there are several internal inconsistencies in the Koran. It refers to Christians and Jews as people who should be respected because they have also received the word of Allah (although an incomplete version of his word). Other passages say they can't be trusted because the don't follow the religion of Mohammed.



In the Koran version of Revelations however, it says good Muslims will have to rise up and kill the Jews. Although there is similar stuff in the Bible Revelations, where a few Jews side with Jesus and are saved but most side with Satan and are doomed to hell.



There is less anamosity toward the Christians other than the distrust part, from what I can remember.

Answer 9

They call them " infidels " ( anyone who does not believe what they believe). They just hate Christians because Christians bring God's truth.... (You will be hated by all men)



If you have a copy of the quran then look up infidels.

Answer 10

This shows a misunderstanding of Islamic traditions.



Christians and Jews are also regarded as people of the book, they will be saved at the final judgement if they are faithful according to Islamic traditions.



(I'm a Christian, but I have a copy of the Qur'an on my bookshelf)

Answer 11

well not christians, just anyone that isnt muslim

Answer 12

Christians In The Quran

Answer 13

But this is a little bit confusing:

Sura 2:62

Indeed, those who believed and those who were Jews or Christians or Sabeans [before Prophet Muhammad] - those [among them] who believed in Allah and the Last Day and did righteousness - will have their reward with their Lord, and no fear will there be concerning them, nor will they grieve.

Answer 14

Quran ordering Muslims to beat up their wives. Quran (4:34) - "Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great."

Answer 15

Let's use our common sense. If there was a verse in truth or a command to act like what you say, will there be any Christian remaining on this earth. Look at the millions of Coptic Christians lived amoung Arab Muslims before and after Islam. You are right there is nothing such a verse to kill a specific community. But kill only those who fight against the religion of Allah and Muslims.

Answer 16

That is not the wanted answer to you question, but all these conflicts in the world make me sick, especially, when I ask why.

It's always the same problem. If you want pick on somebody to get whatever, you never say the truth. You always go to down to another difference: religion, color, ethnic, language ....

Look up your history book and see the different wars and try to find out what the real reason was: money, oil, access to the ocean, power, revenge .....

Also look back in history who really started the conflicts.

Answer 17

I am so sorry, I have to appologize to the Muslims who come to this page. PLEAS don't think that the ignorance you find here from "Christians" is focused soely on you. We have a rule of interpretation in Christian literature, you can use it with Islamic as well, "A Verse Taken Out Of Context, Becomes A Pretext, And Is Therefore Unusable"...these same people harping on one or two verses do that to the Bible A LOT...ask them about the NT and Homosexuality...yea they will tell you there is nothing in it about that subject...even though it is dealt with time and again...they don't study the Bible because its inconvieniant...they are not gonna read your Quran for the same reason....Our religions do not agree in every area, but both of our Holy Books call for peace...

Answer 18

People here are putting half the verse! The second half is fight them if they fight you, meaning if you are in battle, where god was speaking to his messanger thousand yea

Answer 19

Rafeh,



Just what verse is she quoting "Out of context?" you don't even mention the sura's numbers that you quote. .



And its interesting that you quote the Verse of the Sword, which does abrogate some 200 plus verses of the Koran. Tell me it does not. . Remember, the fate of whoever changes their religion:



“The punishment for apostasy (riddah) is well-known in Islaamic Sharee'ah. The one who leaves Islaam will be asked to repent by the Sharee'ah judge in an Islaamic country; if he does not repent and come back to the true religion, he will be killed as a kaafir and apostate, because of the command of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): "Whoever changes his religion, kill him." (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 3017).



If you are a Muslim and you are insisting that sura 9.5 does not abrogate other verses, you become an apostate.



Passages from the Qur’an clearly reveal that lying is permitted, particularly in reference to non-believers in conflict with Muslims. It is also clear that if forced to do so, Muslims may lie under oath and can even falsely deny faith in Allah, as long as they maintain the profession of faith in their hearts. In the Qur’an, Allah says: "Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness (vain) in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts; and He is Oft-forgiving, Most Forbearing. Surah 2:225"



Once again, I challenge you to show which verses clara is quoting out of context. . .



How nice, someone gives me a thumbs down, but does not have the audacity to address any of the points that have been made. ..



Soldier of Allah, Assalamu 'Alaikum. . I am not saying anyone is leaving their religion, just pointing out that brother Rafeh is practicing kitman.

Answer 20

If you use some lateral thinking you be surprised that both monotheists scriptures indicate that those who are not of faith and who worship false idols are to be exterminated by the exterminator 111.

Answer 21

None..... in fact Muslims are required not to bring harm to any of the peoples of the Book, Christians, Jews, Druze and so on. A Book, a prophet and the God of Abraham is the criterion. I am fed up with all of these ignorant muslims who call people kufir/kaffir and infidel and in so doing reveal a profound ignorance of their OWN religion and thereby harm it more than all of the so-called Zionists and Crusaders put together...

Salam!

Answer 22

Nowhere does it say kill non-Moslems, except for Moslems who want to leave Islam.

But it DOES say you can make war on non-Moslems till they acknowledge Moslem superiority and pay tribute and live as second class citizens - the future fate of non-Moslem Europeans, some say!

Answer 23

these people seem to lackin common sense they just dont understand the beauty of the quran their no different to the enemies of the prophet SAW who despite got the evidence of islam they still rejected it

Answer 24

sallam bro well writen bro i see like me you too are trying to show this people what are religion really is well why dont you join 7cgen we need more people like you

Answer 25

None,



For your interest, look at this.





2:62. Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians,- any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

Answer 26

NONE.

what are you saying?

Answer 27

No verse of the Quran says that

Answer 28

It says muslims must kill infidels (anyone not a muslim) unless they convert to Islam. It is the second most bloodthirsty religion after Christianity.

Answer 29

none