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Originally Posted by T-Rock
Especially when it is a legal imperative to do so...
"O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people." (5:51), therefore, "...Fight those who do not believe in Allah...nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. (9:29) also,..."The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews" (al-Bukhari)
Neither Jewish nor Christian scriptures nor any other religions employ such perpetual, open-ended commandments for "War." Although we in the west don't think their way, Islam has already declared war on us - secularists, atheists, buddhists, Jews, and christians alike, a never ending eternal war, and the perpetual acts of terrorism only reinforce what is sanctioned by their legal doctrine. To them it is a religious war, sanctioned by Islam.
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T-Rock
I would be weary when adding a "therefore" between the 2 writings in this passage of the Qur'an. By adding it, you are creating a sense that violence toward Christians and Jews is justified by the Quran, when in reality these two writings are not just seperated by many other lines, and the historical context hasn't even been taken into account.
Manipulation of writings and verses can be misinterpreted and therefore convince people that these lines do in fact justify the killing of Jews and Christians... this same ideology is present in the extremists mind set when they carry out attacks. They have been brain washed, and have been cited verses out of context in order to create a sense of martydom, therefore I would be cautious when extracting 2 lines and combining them out of context and out of order.