Does Islam / the Quran teach Violence?

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Would someone please explain what motivated Nidal Hasan, who at taxpayers' expense was educated from college all the way through medical school and post medical-school training, to turn his deadly weapons against the nation that gave him everything he had?

If Islam had nothing to do with what Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan did, then why:

did he repeatedly preach the ascendancy of Islam over the U.S. Constitution?
did he publicly support Islamic suicide-bombing?
did he proclaim his highest loyalty to Islam?
was he in contact with violent anti-U.S. Islamists and a virulent Yemeni Imam?
did he distribute copies of the Quran to people the morning of his bloody attack?
did he keep screaming "Allahu akbar" as he heartlessly sprayed over a hundred bullets, killing thirteen and injuring some thirty innocent men and women?


Here is the truth, as bitter as it may be

Violence is institutionalized in the Muslims' holy book, the Quran, in many suras:

Quran 9:5 "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war."


9:112 "The Believers fight in Allah's cause; they slay and are slain, kill and are killed."


8:39 "So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world)."


8:65 "O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels are a people devoid of understanding."


9:38 "Believers, what is the matter with you, that when you are asked to go forth and fight in Allah's Cause you cling to the earth? Do you prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? Unless you go forth, He will afflict and punish you with a painful doom, and put others in your place."


47:4 "When you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle (fighting Jihad in Allah's Cause), smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making (them) captives. Thereafter either generosity or ransom (them based upon what benefits Islam) until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam."

@DorkySupergirl Said

I think in any religion, certain people will take it too far. Look at some xtreme Christians killing abortion doctors and hiding behing religion. Thou not kill covers everyone, even abortion doctors.

They are some go want to wage a holy war on us but I think those are few and far between. Only crackpots use religion as a mask to kill and commit unspeakable acts.

God does not want any of that and would not tell someone to kill and use religion.

@sister_of_mercy Said

There are going to be extremist nutters in any religion, having strong beliefs in anything can make you become a little aggressive if they are challenged. So no, I don't think so.

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Quran 9:5 "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war."


9:112 "The Believers fight in Allah's cause; they slay and are slain, kill and are killed."


8:39 "So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world)."


8:65 "O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels are a people devoid of understanding."


9:38 "Believers, what is the matter with you, that when you are asked to go forth and fight in Allah's Cause you cling to the earth? Do you prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? Unless you go forth, He will afflict and punish you with a painful doom, and put others in your place."


47:4 "When you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle (fighting Jihad in Allah's Cause), smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making (them) captives. Thereafter either generosity or ransom (them based upon what benefits Islam) until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam."

@iwannano Said

Your saying that these quotes from the book the Quran are not teaching violence toward other beliefs?

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On one side are the politically correct in government, the leftist mainstream media, and a raft of Islamist apologists. One and all are tripping over each other in reassuring us the mass murderers such as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and suicide-bombers who detonate their explosive vests in crowded marketplaces

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On the other side are those fed up with the innumerable daily horrific acts throughout the world that are clearly committed under the banner of Islam.

@iwannano Said

does the the Quran lead to violence?

@iwannano Said

https://islam-watch.org/iw-new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=250:does-islam-breed-violence&catid=48:imani&Itemid=58


I personally wouldn't take either book as anything but fairy tales ,but then I'm not committing violence against others while saying it's my religion,

@SparklyKatie Said

No, people lead to violence.

@sister_of_mercy Said

That has more to do with people than the religion. You can't brand a religion as violent when it is the people that carry out violence.

@iwannano Said

When the violent people are stating its what their religion says to do ,isn't these people that are 'branding' their religion ?

@iwannano Said

Point taken. I will change the word 'breed' to 'teach' .

@sister_of_mercy Said

Yeah but that doesn't mean it's true, they must not know their religion that well in order to think that violence is what their God wants.

@SparklyKatie Said

I think the Qur'an teaches violence about as much as American Psycho or the Old Testament.