well said and here's something more..

Submitted by blunt instrument (Australia), Jan 1, 2009 at 01:12

Following are some of the 'ayats' of the Quran that command the believers (Muslims) to fight against followers of other faiths:

1. 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. Lo! Allah
is Forgiving, Merciful. (SUrah 9, Ayats 5)
2. O ye who believe! The idolaters only are unclean... (9.28)
3. In truth the disbelievers are an open enemy to you. (4.101)
4. O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you and let them find
harshness in you... (9.123)
5. Lo! Those who disbelieve our revelations, We shall expose them to the Fire. As often as
their skins are consumed We shall exchange them for fresh skins that they may taste the
torment. Lo! Allah is ever Mighty, Wise. (4.56)
6. O ye who believe! Choose not your father nor your brethren for friends if they take
pleasure in disbelief rather than faith. Whoso of you taketh them for friends such are
wrongdoers. (9.23)
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7. Allah guideth not the disbelieving folk. (9.37)
8. O ye who believe! Choose not for friends People of the Book and of the disbelievers.
But keep your duty to Allah if ye are true believers. (5.57)
9. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter. (3 3.61)
10. Lo! Ye (idolaters) and that which ye worship beside Allah are fuel of hell. Thereunto ye
will come. (21.98)
11. And who doth greater wrong than he who is reminded of the revelations of his Lord, then
turneth from them. Lo! We shall requite the guilty. (32.22)
12. Allah promiseth you much booty that ye will capture. (48.20)
13. Now enjoy what ye have won as lawful and good. (8.69)
14. O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stem with them.
Hell will be their home, a hapless journey's end. (66.9)
15. But verily We shall cause those who disbelieve to taste an awful doom and verily We
shall requite them the worst of what they used to do. (41.27)
16. That is the reward of Allah's enemies: the Fire. Therein is their immortal home, payment
for as much as they denied Our revelations. (41.28)
17. Lo! Allah bath bought from the believers their lives and their wealth because the Garden
will be theirs. They shall fight in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain... (9.111)
18. Allah promiseth hypocrites, both men and women, and the disbelievers fire of hell for
their abode. It will suffice them. Allah curseth them and theirs is lasting torment. (9.58)
19. O Prophet! Exhort the believers to fight. If there be of you twenty steadfast they shall
overcome two hundred, and if there be of you a hundred steadfast they shall overcome a
thousand of those who disbelieve because they (the disbelievers) are a folk without
intelligence. (8.65)
20. O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians for friends. They are friends one to
another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth
not wrongdoing folk. (5.51)
21. Fight against such of those who have been given the scripture as believe not in Allah nor
the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah bath forbidden by His messenger and follow
not the religion -of truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low. (9.29)
22. Therefore, We have stirred up enmity and hatred among them till the day of Resurrection,
when Allah will inform them of their handiwork. (5.14)
23. They long that ye should disbelieve even as they disbelieve that ye may be upon a level
(with them). So choose not friends from them till they forsake their homes in the way of
Allah. If they turn back (to enmity) then take them and kill them wherever ye find them,
and choose not friend nor helper from among them. (4.89)
24. Fight them! Allah will chastise them at your hands, and He will lay them low and give you
victory over them, and He will heal the breasts of folk who are believers. (9.14)

There are numerous other so-called 'ayats' of the same sort that carry commandments which promote enmity, ill-will, hatred, deception, fraud, strife, robbery and murder.

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