I tried to find online copies of the quran but what I did find, when i tried to read it, it was like a raving imbicile’s words saying how merciful Allah is then in the same breath saying how anyone who doesn’t believe in Allah will be destroyed and sent to hell. If that is the quran then it’s not even a book it’s a piece of literal shit.
The same literal “shit” can be found in interpretations of the “Bible”. According to fundies, God, who plays dice with Satan in the book of “Job”, has already lost about 95 % of the human race to His adversary. Loser God in both books? I can’t buy that concept. Anyway, most folks seem to want to see other folks damned to eternal punishment. Revenge trumps compassion. It would take a very special diety, one who knows what it is like to be human, to be a winner and accept even the humans whose minds cry for justice but mean retribution. So far, no such religious book seems to exist.
Cruel beings built some of the foundations of culture and society.
You keep applying modern paradigms to ancient times…
There is no place in the Quran (at least that I know of) that advocates the killing of no believers that are not re-written from the Torah or New Testament.
There are however several places that can be interpreted as such (namely the section about jihad) however most interpret jihad as an inner struggle or a struggle against evil through peaceful means.
At its foundation Islam is probably the least violent religion out there. Sure its founders fought wars but after the “purification” of the Kaaba every war up until about the 19th century was fought purely for political or strategic reasons, never religious ones.
In Islamic areas conquered people we allowed to keep their religions and all conversions were done by showing others how Islam enriched the lives of Muslims leaving the convertee to decide what religion was best for them individually.
The current fundamentalist movements are basically the crusades a couple centuries late.
I have not read the “Quran”; ergo,I cannot comment on it. I think the point needs to be made that many who read the so-called religious texts find in them sufficient material that can be interpreted as justification for murder, mahem, ostracism and elite-ism.