I have never been a very religious person. And have always been able to stay shy of most bible thumping holy rollers. And until now knew less then nothing about muslims,the Quran and Islam .
But the thread I started about them 5 guys from the Washington DC area that left the US with plans to join up with the terrorists to kill Americans got me to really thinking about that book them terrorists swear by ,the Quran. I googled "what does the the Quran teach about other beliefs' and ' does the the Quran lead to violence?'
here is just one of the many sites I found.
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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."
https://islam-watch.org/iw-new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=250:does-islam-breed-violence&catid=48:imani&Itemid=58