Today’s concluding installment for Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month brings us the one place in the Qur’an where Muslims are directed explicitly to make war against and subjugate Jews and Christians — the “People of the Book”: Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them”
Today’s installment brings the Qur’an’s quintessential violent passage: Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah”
Both hatred and violence in today’s installment: Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are those who have disbelieved, and they will not [ever] believe — the ones with whom you made a treaty but then they break their pledge every time, and they do not fear Allah. So if you, […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Fight them until there is no fitnah and the religion, all of it, is for Allah”
Today’s Qur’an reading prescribes violence until the world is Islamized: And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah. And if they cease – then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do. (Qur’an 8:39) Fitnah is disturbance, upheaval, disorder, chaos. According to numerous early Muslim […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks”
Today is Beheading Day in Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: [Remember] when your Lord inspired to the angels, “I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.” (Qur’an […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: Unbelievers are “like livestock”
Today’s Qur’an passage brings us the revolting idea that the supreme being created people solely in order to torture them for all eternity: And We have certainly created for Hell many of the jinn and mankind. They have hearts with which they do not understand, they have eyes with which they do not see, and […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Who is more unjust than one who invents about Allah a lie or denies His verses?”
In my country it is customary for people to celebrate this day of Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month by exchanging gifts, having a big Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness dinner, and spending the day with loved ones. I am not sure where or how this quaint and intriguing custom originated, […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews”
Still more Jew-hatred: they “misled many,” they have “strayed,” they are cursed by David and Jesus, Allah is angry with them, and they’re the worst enemies of the Muslims: Say, “O People of the Scripture, do not exceed limits in your religion beyond the truth and do not follow the inclinations of a people who […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “And the Jews say, ‘The hand of Allah is chained’…cursed are they for what they say.”
Today brings still more Qur’anic antisemitism: And the Jews say, “The hand of Allah is chained.” Chained are their hands, and cursed are they for what they say. Rather, both His hands are extended; He spends however He wills. And that which has been revealed to you from your Lord will surely increase many of […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He became angry and made of them apes and pigs”
Today’s installment brings more dehumanization of Jews: Say, “O People of the Scripture, do you resent us except [for the fact] that we have believed in Allah and what was revealed to us and what was revealed before and because most of you are defiantly disobedient?” Say, “Shall I inform you of [what is] worse […]